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Outsiders Fund
Venture capital · Norwalk, CT, United States · North America
Outsiders Fund is an early-stage venture capital firm that backs founders with outside perspectives. It focuses on companies disrupting overlooked, antiquated and long-standing industries.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsoverlooked industriesindustrial technologyautomationhardwaresupply chainhealth monitoring
Your fit with Outsiders Fund
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Or find every investor that fitsOutsiders Fund lists 34 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 7 funding rounds, 1 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Series B, 43% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (33%), Enterprise Software (13%) and Fintech (10%). 89% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Connecticut Innovations, General Catalyst and 8VC.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Outsiders Fund, 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 Outsiders Fund's whole history. Rounds on record name 7 companies; its own site lists 34. 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 | 29% |
| Series A | 29% |
| Series B | 43% |
| 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 | 1 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 2 | 1 |
| '26 | 4 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 72th | 34 companies |
| Recent activity | 82th | 4 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 61th | 29% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 92th | 21% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 62th | 33% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 58th | 3 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
Show as a table
| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 33% | 18% |
| Enterprise Software | 13% | 8% |
| Fintech | 10% | 12% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 10% | 15% |
| Cybersecurity | 10% | 4% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 7% | 7% |
| Consumer | 5% | 3% |
| Media & Entertainment | 3% | 4% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Connecticut Innovations | 3 |
| General Catalyst | 3 |
| 8VC | 2 |
| Benchstrength | 2 |
| Glynn Capital | 2 |
| Innospark Ventures | 2 |
| Insight Partners | 2 |
| Qudit | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers34100%
- 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.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Connecticut Innovations
Compare Outsiders Fund 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 Outsiders Fund| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 26 Aug 2026 | Series B | |
| 4 Jun 2026 | Seed | |
| 10 Mar 2026 | Series B | |
| 1 Jan 2026 | Series B | |
| 27 Aug 2025 | Series A Led | |
| 17 Mar 2025 | Series A | |
| 16 May 2023 | Seed |
Round details for Outsiders Fund
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Outsiders Fund's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
34 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AbstractOps helps companies with state compliance, including registrations, annual reports, and deregistrations. | Legal & ComplianceFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| AeroVect deploys turnkey ground handling automation solutions for airlines and airports | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Andrena provides high-speed internet services to residents, buildings, and businesses. | Enterprise SoftwareConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Apex Space manufactures and delivers satellite platforms to customers | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Breedr develops and provides cattle management software | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Aug 2026Series B | Page + round | |
| Casana produces a smart toilet seat that tracks vital signs such as heart rate and blood pressure | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Cercle is empowering providers, clinicians and life science teams with a cutting-edge, AI-enabled platform that makes pulling insight from population-scale data feel effortless. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Cork Cyber provides a platform for managed service providers to gain visibility into cyber risk and offer financial protection to their clients | CybersecurityFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Cosmic Shielding delivers radiation-protected solutions for electronics to operate in harsh radiation environments | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| DualEntry provides an AI-powered enterprise resource planning system for accounting and financial management | FintechEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Dyania Health develops and provides Synapsis AI for healthcare systems to interpret patient data and assist with clinical decision-making | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Emphere provides AI-powered remediation for Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) in container images | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Jun 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| The company provides an intelligent operations platform for airlines to optimize flight monitoring, in-flight optimization, and intelligent alerting. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Flux designs and manufactures hardware products, from idea to production, using AI and various design tools. | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Jan 2026Series B | Page + round | |
| Kyte provides a modern API to connect to any airline, allowing travel sellers to offer low-cost and full-service airline content through a single integration. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Gradial provides a platform for marketing operations and workflow management for enterprises | Media & EntertainmentEnterprise Software | Mar 2025Series A | Page + round | |
| Heave provides same-day repair and field service for heavy equipment and trucks. | Industrial & ManufacturingMobility & Logistics | Aug 2025Series A | Page + round | |
| HP sells laptops, desktops, printers, and other computer hardware and software | ConsumerEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Lucea Health helps answer nursing calls, handle requests, and connect people to care while supporting nurses and turning conversations into completed work. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- outsidersfund.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 16 May 2023
- Companies checked
- 34
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.
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