Investors / Outlier Ventures
Outlier Ventures
Venture capital
Outlier Ventures is an early-stage deep tech investor that writes first cheques into emerging technological frontiers, typically pre-seed through Series A. It also syndicates deals through special purpose vehicles and works with family offices, venture capital firms and sovereign wealth funds.
Invests inFintechAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsdeep techaicryptodepinrwa tokenizationprivacy
Your fit with Outlier Ventures
Four questions about your startup
See how your round matches what it backs, point by point.
Or find every investor that fitsOutlier Ventures lists 170 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 3 funding rounds, 1 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 33% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Fintech (31%), AI & Machine Learning (18%) and Cybersecurity (8%). 41% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Animoca Brands, DWeb3 Capital and Taisu Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Outlier Ventures, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Outlier Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 3 companies; its own site lists 170. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 33% |
| Series A | 33% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 33% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 2 | 1 |
| '26 | 1 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 98th | 171 companies |
| Recent activity | 59th | 1 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 64th | 33% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 1% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 54th | 31% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 99th | 23 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
Show as a table
| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Fintech | 31% | 12% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 18% | 18% |
| Cybersecurity | 8% | 4% |
| Enterprise Software | 7% | 8% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 7% | 6% |
| Gaming | 6% | 1% |
| Media & Entertainment | 5% | 4% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 4% | 15% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Animoca Brands | 6 |
| DWeb3 Capital | 5 |
| Taisu Ventures | 5 |
| DCG | 4 |
| Primal Capital | 4 |
| Y Combinator | 4 |
| Blockwall | 3 |
| Borderless Capital | 3 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers16597%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company53%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Outlier Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Funds
as stated on its siteRecent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Outlier Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 9 Feb 2026 | Seed | |
| 18 Oct 2025 | Series C+ Led | |
| 9 Aug 2025 | Series A |
Round details for Outlier Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Outlier Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
170 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The company builds software that checks liveness and verifies identity while preserving privacy. | FintechCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| 31Third enables funds, DAOs, asset managers, and AI agents to automate trading, rebalancing, and risk management on Gnosis Safe | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
| 3point0 Labs is a modern sports and entertainment management firm with expertise in contract negotiation, content creation, brand building, and strategic consulting. | Enterprise SoftwareEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Absinthe builds incentive primitives for crypto teams | FintechCrypto & Web3 | Portfolio page | ||
| Agoric develops automated and intelligent apps for cross-chain capital allocation and DeFi operations | FintechDeveloper Tools | Portfolio page | ||
| Altered State Machine allows anyone to own, train and trade unique Artificial Intelligence via digital ASM Brains | AI & Machine LearningGaming | Portfolio page | ||
| Altr is a digital fashion platform that empowers brands, creators, and institutions to digitize, showcase, and commercialize fashion archives. | FintechE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Aptos Arcade creates and provides web3 gaming applications. | Gaming | Portfolio page | ||
| Aria Health provides an AI-powered scheduling assistant for clinics to handle appointment scheduling and other front desk tasks | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Armur provides a swarm of autonomous AI agents that chain vulnerabilities in cloud infrastructures to simulate real attacks. | Cybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Assisterr AI Lab builds and deploys task-specific Small Language Models and AI Agents tailored to business operations | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Astra Nova is an AI-powered entertainment ecosystem where community, storytelling, and gameplay converge into a next-gen network of monetizable, creator-driven experiences. | Enterprise SoftwareGaming | Oct 2025Series C+ | Funding round | |
| Axone is a protocol for governing acts in shared digital spaces | FintechCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Aydo enables users to supply data from their IoT devices to AI models and earn rewards | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Biconomy provides a universal execution layer for web3 solutions, including swaps, trading, and automation for DeFi and autonomous AI agents. | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
AI & Machine LearningGaming | Portfolio page | |||
| Bloxmove provides a mobility blockchain platform that automates and accelerates consumption-based settlement between companies, vehicles and users | Mobility & LogisticsFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Boson develops a decentralized protocol for secure and trust-minimized commerce, enabling the exchange of any asset between any counterparty | FintechE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Brave develops a browser that blocks ads and provides privacy features | Media & EntertainmentCybersecurity | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- outlierventures.io
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 9 Aug 2025
- Companies checked
- 170
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
Get Outlier Ventures' profile as data
Pull Outlier Ventures' portfolio, co-investors and changes through one API key or MCP, open every portfolio row, compare it with other firms, and get an email when it adds a company or files a fund.
Work email, sign-in link by email. Already have an account? Log in- Ask AI5 plain-English investor searches a day
- Full listsEvery portfolio row and two-firm overlap
- API and MCP100 REST or MCP calls a month, one key
- AlertsFollow 5 investors for portfolio and fund changes
$ curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
https://api.vcinfo.io/v1/firms/outlierventures.io
# also
GET /v1/firms/outlierventures.io/portfolio
GET /v1/firms/outlierventures.io/coinvestors
GET /v1/firms/outlierventures.io/news