Oliver Cameron

Odyssey is an AI lab pioneering interactive video modelsmodels that dream video you can watch and interact with in real-time. This new form of general-purpose intelligence will power the next generation of gaming, film, education, social media, advertising, training, companionship, simulation, and entirely new applications. Odyssey was founded in late 2023 by Oliver Cameron (Cruise VP, Voyage CEO, YC alum) and Jeff Hawke (Wayve VP, Oxford AI PhD), with roots in frontier AI, RL, and autonomous systems. Theyve since recruited a world-class research team from DeepMind, Tesla, Waymo, Meta, Wayve, and Cruise. Odyssey has raised substantial venture capital from GV and EQT, with additional backing from Elad Gil, Jeff Dean, Guillermo Rauch, Garry Tan, Kyle Vogt, and researchers at OpenAI, DeepMind, Meta, and Midjourney. Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull serves on Odysseys board. odyssey+2

Prior to Odyssey, Oliver spent 8 years building and scaling fully driverless cars. Oliver served as VP of Product at Cruise—a leader in self-driving cars—after the acquisition of his own autonomous driving startup, Voyage. At Cruise, Oliver focused on AI, products, tooling, and services to scale the fleet, AV driving behaviors, next-generation vehicles, and more. He led the launch of the world's first fully driverless service in San Francisco, and scaled it to 3 major US cities, generating substantial revenue and over 100,000 5-star ratings from customers. bloomberg+1

Before being acquired by Cruise, Oliver was co-founder and CEO of Voyage, a 70-person startup that developed and deployed state-of-the-art self-driving cars. Voyage partnered with retirement communities in California and Florida to transport senior citizens safely, and raised $52M from Khosla Ventures, Initialized Capital, CRV, Franklin Templeton, Chevron, In-Q-Tel, and others. In March 2021, Cruise acquired Voyage to supercharge their commercialization efforts. productschool+1

Prior to Voyage, Oliver was the VP of Product & Engineering at the online education startup Udacity. Oliver worked closely with AI pioneer Sebastian Thrun to deliver world-class online education to millions of people. At Udacity, Oliver led a 200-strong research, product, engineering, and content team, launching and growing online classes in AI, autonomous vehicles, robotics, and more. This led Udacity to over $100M in ARR and a $105M Series D at a $1B valuation. nfx+1