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Outward VC
Venture capital · London, United Kingdom · Europe
Outward VC is a London-based early-stage venture firm that invests in founders building in large, complex and regulated markets. It makes entry investments in pre-Series A funding rounds of up to £5m, often as lead investor, and intends to support portfolio companies with follow-on investments.
Invests inFintechAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsfintechinsurancelegal techhealthcarecybersecurityregulated markets
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Or find every investor that fitsOutward VC lists 30 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 11 funding rounds, 6 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 55% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Fintech (41%), AI & Machine Learning (19%) and Cybersecurity (7%). 68% of its companies are based in United Kingdom. It invests most often alongside Seedcamp, AlbionVC and Portfolio Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Outward VC, 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 Outward VC's whole history. Rounds on record name 11 companies; its own site lists 30. 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 | 18% |
| Seed | 55% |
| Series A | 18% |
| Series B | 9% |
| 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 | 3 | 3 |
| '26 | 8 | 3 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 68th | 30 companies |
| Recent activity | 94th | 9 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 81th | 73% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 97th | 30% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 74th | 41% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 70th | 4 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
Show as a table
| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Fintech | 41% | 12% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 19% | 18% |
| Cybersecurity | 7% | 4% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 6% | 6% |
| Real Estate & Construction | 6% | 3% |
| Enterprise Software | 6% | 8% |
| Education | 6% | 7% |
| Legal & Compliance | 4% | 2% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Seedcamp | 5 |
| AlbionVC | 3 |
| Portfolio Ventures | 3 |
| 13books Capital | 2 |
| AFG Partners | 2 |
| Cornerstone VC | 2 |
| Haatch | 2 |
| SEED X Liechtenstein | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers2997%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company13%
- 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 Outward VC head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Funds
from public registers and its siteRecent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Outward VC| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 3 Nov 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 16 Sept 2026 | Pre-Seed | |
| 10 Sept 2026 | Pre-Seed Led | |
| 10 Jun 2026 | Series A | |
| 20 May 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 17 Mar 2026 | Seed | |
| 26 Jan 2026 | Series B | |
| 26 Nov 2025 | Seed Led |
Round details for Outward VC
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Outward VC's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
30 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adclear provides financial marketing compliance software | FintechFintech | Nov 2025Seed | Page + round | |
| Aventus builds enterprise blockchain infrastructure | FintechEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Capsa AI provides an AI platform for private capital companies to accelerate workflows and unlock insights | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Jun 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| Clearglass provides cost collection and benchmarking analytics for asset owners and supports asset managers in understanding their competitive position and pricing | FintechFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company trains AI models for organisations that need frontier capability inside secure environments. | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Curve provides a digital wallet that combines all a user's cards into a single, secure wallet, allowing them to switch cards after a purchase and skip hidden foreign exchange fees. | FintechE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Elyndra provides referral software for children's residential care | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Finverity provides technology, working capital, and expertise for supply chain finance and open account trade finance | FintechFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Firenze helps wealth managers, advisers, and investment platforms complete their client offering with investment-backed lending | FintechLegal & Compliance | Portfolio page | ||
| Steward provides AI-native compliance and KYC & KYB verification software for financial institutions to automate client onboarding and AML processes. | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Mar 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Infact provides real-time insights and data to power responsible lending decisions and risk assessment | FintechLegal & Compliance | Portfolio page | ||
| Infrawatch provides an intelligence layer for the internet to help companies discover and prevent cyber threats | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | May 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Januar provides financial services, including IBAN accounts and crypto trade solutions, for crypto businesses. | FintechCrypto & Web3 | Portfolio page | ||
| Flyp provides a cross listing app for resellers to list items on various platforms such as Poshmark, eBay, and Mercari | E-commerce & MarketplacesSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Keyzy allows people to rent a home with the option to buy it later, with their rent contributing towards the deposit | Real Estate & Construction | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides a security engineer that runs inside coding agents to fix flaws and prevent debt in code | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Sept 2026Pre-Seed | Page + round | |
| Mazepay provides a platform to onboard, control and pay long-tail suppliers automatically | FintechEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Monese provides a mobile money app for individuals and businesses to manage their accounts, make payments, and transfer money internationally. | FintechE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides procurement teams with strategic intelligence to negotiate deals faster and at better terms. | Enterprise SoftwareAI & Machine Learning | Nov 2025Seed | Page + round |
About this data
site last read 10 Nov 2026- Site
- outwardvc.com
- Last read
- 10 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 23 Sept 2025
- Companies checked
- 30
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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