Investors / Outset Capital
Outset Capital
Venture capital
Outset Capital is an early-stage investment firm run by AI practitioners and YC founders who invest as builders. It writes small checks rather than leading rounds and works closely with founders as an active, hands-on investor.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsaidevtoolsroboticsfuture of workearly stage
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Or find every investor that fitsOutset Capital lists 16 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 2 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 50% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (43%), Industrial & Manufacturing (11%) and Enterprise Software (11%). 100% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Y Combinator, Abstract and Index Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Outset Capital, 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 Outset Capital's whole history. Rounds on record name 2 companies; its own site lists 16. 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 roundOutset Capital does not state its stages on its site, so only what it does is shown.
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| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 50% |
| Series A | 50% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
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 | 0 | 0 |
| '26 | 2 | 0 |
Investor profile
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| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 42th | 16 companies |
| Recent activity | 69th | 2 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 73th | 50% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 83th | 13% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 77th | 43% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 19th | 1 country |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 43% | 18% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 11% | 7% |
| Enterprise Software | 11% | 8% |
| Space & Defense | 7% | 3% |
| Fintech | 7% | 12% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 4% | 15% |
| Real Estate & Construction | 4% | 3% |
| Legal & Compliance | 4% | 2% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Y Combinator | 6 |
| Abstract | 3 |
| Index Ventures | 3 |
| Lux Capital | 3 |
| AI Grant | 2 |
| Andreessen Horowitz | 2 |
| Avenir | 2 |
| Emergence Capital | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers16100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- 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. The firm itself reports 0 acquired, 0 public and 0 inactive.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Outset Capital head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Outset Capital| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Sept 2026 | Series A | |
| 12 May 2026 | Seed |
Round details for Outset Capital
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Outset Capital's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
16 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Browserbase provides a platform for agents to use the web, including cloud browsers, scalable environments, and data retrieval capabilities. | AI & Machine LearningFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Datology turns data into high-quality training data for AI models | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Detail fixes bugs in the background while clients ship features by exercising code to find and fix bugs | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Harper provides business insurance services, including various types of liability insurance and other coverage options, to different industries | FintechIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Hedra is a research and infrastructure company bringing frontier inference to multimodal and physical AI. | AI & Machine LearningIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Kindred is a platform for house swapping and home exchange | Real Estate & ConstructionLegal & Compliance | Portfolio page | ||
| MatX develops high-throughput chips for large language models | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Medra develops and provides a robotic system that executes scientific protocols autonomously | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Physical Intelligence develops learning algorithms to create models that control robots to do various tasks | AI & Machine LearningRobotics & Hardware | Portfolio page | ||
| Poetiq builds intelligent systems that improve themselves directly to create reliable reasoning systems for solving real-world problems. | AI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Reflex builds software for businesses using a hybrid approach combining business expertise with their platform and engineers. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides video analytics for manufacturing operations and safety | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | May 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| The company provides faster GitHub Actions runners with AI agents that optimize workflows | AI & Machine LearningDeveloper Tools | Portfolio page | ||
| Tako provides a web and data search API for AI agents | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Wafer provides continual inference services to optimize the serving stack for better performance, reliability, and efficiency. | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Sept 2026Series A | Page + round |
About this data
site last read 8 Nov 2026- Site
- outsetcapital.com
- Last read
- 8 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 12 May 2026
- Companies checked
- 16
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