Outlier Ventures

Outlier Ventures is a venture platform that invests in early-stage ventures led by driven entrepreneurs aiming to build transformative companies. Established in 2013 as Europe's first venture firm dedicated to blockchain technology, Outlier Ventures supports the development and growth of emerging technologies. With a focus on the convergence of decentralized technologies with advancements like AI, robotics, and IoT, the company aims to create a new open and decentralized data infrastructure for the next internet paradigm, "Web 3.0". The firm's team of specialists in token economics, research, legal, marketing, and technology provide support to seed and growth stage startups, as well as larger businesses committed to this vision. Based in London and with a global presence in Toronto, Chicago, and Amsterdam, Outlier Ventures offers an acceleration program, Base Camp 3, providing office space, legal, and back-office support to pre-seed projects to help them define and build their vision.

Aron Ammers

Founding Partner & Chief Technology Officer

Stephan Apel

Managing Partner & Board Member

Jamie Burke

CEO and Founder

Lawrence Lundy

Partner and Head of Research

Ana-Maria Yanakieva

Investor

383 past transactions

Unique Network

Series B in 2021
Unique Network is a scalable blockchain for composable NFTs with advanced economies.

cheqd

Funding Round in 2021
Far too often, digital identity services online are slow, user-hostile, and expensive for businesses to process. It costs anywhere from $10 onwards to verify the identity of people online, and upwards of $100s for corporate entities. Over the past few years many startups, established ID companies, governments, and non- profits have used decentralised identity to give people more control back of their data and make its use secure and transparent. BUT... What is currently missing is an incentives layer for the self-sovereign identity ecosystem, which hampers adoption. We use blockchain to create a decentralised network for digital identity payments. Once we build this, we will build tools to allow digital ID payments agnostic of ledger. Our initial target segment is B2B, to any companies building products on decentralised ID for people and companies. We will work with these ID companies to integrate verim's digital ID payment rails and network. Our future roadmap includes plans for enterprise and SaaS software that allows large/mid- cap organisations that want to monetise their digital ID issuance.

UseTech

Seed Round in 2021
UseTech is a reliable partner in Product Development as well as in developing custom applications for Retail, Wholesale, E-Commerce, Financial Services and other industries

Versify

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Versify is an all-in-one integrated customer loyalty platform for enterprises. With a suite of easy to use tools, companies of all sizes can easily launch their own marketing promotions and reward programs that are backed by digital assets. Versify Labs was founded by Troy Smith in 2022.

Hashguild

Pre Seed Round in 2022
HashGuild is the NFT Marketplace for Hedera Hashgraph

Obey

Seed Round in 2022
An investment bank for Hip Hop fans investing in music futures

Primeflow

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Companies looking for talent or clients are using PrimeFlow to coordinate private scout networks which acquire leads through personal contacts. These scout networks are scalable and engage proactively while PrimeFlow tracks activity, generates insights, and distributes rewards. Scouts are rewarded with cash and reputation recording their contribution to the company. PrimeFlow encourages long-term partnerships with the most relevant people in your network, resulting in higher quality leads.

Bond180

Seed Round in 2020
Bond180 Limited develops a digital platform to deliver technology solutions within debt capital markets. The company offers a demand management system (DMS), which is a data and analytics product that enables institutional investors enhance their market-facing activity. It also offers 180Match, which is a reverse enquiry engine that streamlines communication with the sell-side and the issue administration network (IAN), which offers digital asset issuance and administration services to the sell-side. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Metropolis

Seed Round in 2022
Artist-drawn hip virtual world with integrated commercial functionality

Mawari

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Mawari is dedicated to experimenting with and developing emerging technologies to create media consumption platforms and contribute to the creation and distribution of new advertising formats for these technologies, such as interactive 3D ads.

Boson Protocol

Funding Round in 2021
Boson is a breakthrough solution to the physical asset oracle problem. Boson is a decentralized protocol that enables smart contracts to trade physical assets with: No human intervention - no intermediaries or arbitrators Full automation - of payment, expiry and complaints Reliable transactions - that happen together or not at all Customer feedback data - via a Web3 data marketplace Boson Protocol represents an enormous commercial opportunity to become: - The universal clearing rails for non-monetary value - A planetary-level product data marketplace

SmartDeFi

Pre Seed Round in 2020
SmartDeFi is an easy to use, non-custodial robo-investment app which fulfills the needs of traditional investors who want to make their first DeFi investments, but don’t understand the risks involved or how to take the first steps.

REXS.IO

Pre Seed Round in 2020
REXS.IO is a technology stack for DLT-based notarization of existing data and data ingestion streams with a clear decoupling of trust and persistence layers. Organizations can benefit from the immutability and tamper-resistance of the distributed ledgers without data throughput limitations typical of permissionless DLTs. REXS.IO abstracts the technical complexities and nuances of the DLT ecosystem. Our solutions are built with intuitive user interfaces and end-to-end chain of trust and scalability in mind. By design, REXS.IO is technology agnostic. We provide a framework with the freedom to choose and deploy the most suitable stack, rather than forcing a user to utilize a particular blockchain or a storage solution.

GBC.AI

Seed Round in 2022
GBC.AI incorporates artificial intelligence (AI) into all blockchains in a transformative way. We nailed down exactly how to implement our proprietary AI with DLT technology leading to optimization and improvements. GBC.AI wants blockchains to become dynamic and, more importantly, become self-aware. GBC.AI works to detect protocol issues and ensure that vulnerabilities are pre-actively dealt with before they become problems, keeping blockchains efficient and safe.

The Digital Dogs Company

Seed Round in 2022
A cross-app personal AI Digital Dogs platform for VR worlds,Social apps,Games and more. Digital Dogs are driven by powerful artificial intelligence technologies and nurtured by your voice, gestures, emotions, and a digital environment. You can train your Digital Dog to do tricks and perform in competitions, care for them and breed them. All Digital Dogs are secured as NFTs on the Ethereum blockchain and can be sold, swapped, and shared with other users.

Open Meta Association

Initial Coin Offering in 2021
The Open Meta Association views the emergent metaverse as a public utility that everyone can use and upon which anyone can build and most importantly, derive value. The Open Meta Association is a community-driven DAO that invests in blockchain-agnostic initiatives that support the metaverse, both in gaming and the growth of the ecosystem at large.

DeepSquare

Series A in 2021
Managed, sustainable High Performance Computing as a Service. Decentralised. Community led. Blockchain (em)powered. DeepSquare solves real-world challenges facing intense computing demand. Combining traditional as a service business with blockchain, to deliver a transparent, fair trust-less ecosystem.

Gravity The Studio

Seed Round in 2022
Be who you are, wherever you want. We make avatar apparel seamlessly wearable between metaverses

Edge

Seed Round in 2022
EDGE ESPORTS Ltd operates contracts, payments, and data platform for tournament organizers, teams, and gamers. It also provides signed and unsigned contracts, payment options, real time data, and back office work solutions. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Holborn, United Kingdom.

Polkadex

Seed Round in 2021
Polkadex is a fully decentralized peer-to-peer orderbook-based cryptocurrency exchange for the DeFi ecosystem built on Substrate. The long-term vision for Polkadex is to interoperate with all blockchain ecosystems to bring assets to trade, not just Polkadot and Ethereum, and create the next generation of regulated decentralized exchange without compromising user experience. The matured version of Polkadex will look like NYSC with crypto for trading, Polkadex be the go-to exchange for people to trade public company shares, crypto and fiat-fiat. At the same time, without compromising user experience and regulatory compliance.

Smilee Finance

Seed Round in 2023
Smilee Finance is a capital-efficient DeFi option and structured product platform that assist customers in realizing large-scale volatility trades.

cheqd

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Far too often, digital identity services online are slow, user-hostile, and expensive for businesses to process. It costs anywhere from $10 onwards to verify the identity of people online, and upwards of $100s for corporate entities. Over the past few years many startups, established ID companies, governments, and non- profits have used decentralised identity to give people more control back of their data and make its use secure and transparent. BUT... What is currently missing is an incentives layer for the self-sovereign identity ecosystem, which hampers adoption. We use blockchain to create a decentralised network for digital identity payments. Once we build this, we will build tools to allow digital ID payments agnostic of ledger. Our initial target segment is B2B, to any companies building products on decentralised ID for people and companies. We will work with these ID companies to integrate verim's digital ID payment rails and network. Our future roadmap includes plans for enterprise and SaaS software that allows large/mid- cap organisations that want to monetise their digital ID issuance.
Chainlink provides reliable tamper-proof inputs and outputs for complex smart contracts on any blockchain. Smart Contracts provide the ability to execute tamper-proof digital agreements, which are considered highly secure and highly reliable. In order to maintain a contract's overall reliability, the inputs, and outputs that the contract relies on also need to be secure. Chainlinks provide a reliable connection to external data, that is provably secure end-to-end. The company was founded in 2014 and based in Grand Cayman, Midland, Cayman Islands.

Lemonade

Series A in 2021
Lemonade enables creators and brands to simultaneously create online and offline experiences driven by e-commerce in a way that is intuitive, engaging, and fun. It is built as a platform to support local creators like artists, musicians, chefs, mixologists, and yoga instructors to help grow their community and reach.
Enigma provides cloud SDK solutions for protecting data-in-use. The company automates and streamlines business operations; and helps financial institutions to identify anti-money laundering compliance, credit-card fraud detection, and insurance premium pricing. It is used to secure data sharing, access control, and secure data processing. The company is based in San Francisco, California.

hundo.xyz

Series A in 2021
hundo.careers is an end-to-end entry-level talent solution that helps forward-thinking companies engage with Gen Z talent. It is a social impact startup that uses a SaaS model to alleviate young unemployment by combining EdTech and HRTech in one dynamic marketplace.

logion

Seed Round in 2022
Logion is a blockchain that offers legal protection for all digital assets and transactions. Founded in 2020 and is based in Europe.

nameless

Seed Round in 2021
Nameless is a non-fungible token (NFT) platform as a service software company that empowers businesses, individuals, and digital creators to create, mint, and capitalize on their own custom NFT projects through easy-to-use scalable API solutions.

mesha

Funding Round in 2022
Mesha is a smart money management service for web3 organizations. It believes that web3 is the future of the internet, and they are working together to make it better.

Biconomy

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Biconomy is a relayer infrastructure network and transaction highway to reduce the friction between applications built on the blockchain and the end-users. Biconomy’s relayer network comprises of an SDK and dashboard that abstracts and hides many of the complexities of opening a wallet, storing private keys, paying gas, and buying cryptocurrency.

Zinc

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Zinc is an automated referencing toolkit that offers culture-add referencing, competency referencing,​ and employment verification referencing​ tools that can extract unique candidate insights and aid onboarding candidates. Zinc empowers individuals to own, authenticate, and reuse their reference data. Which is transforming candidate experiences for scale-ups and SME's. Zinc is headquartered in London, England.

Pollinations

Seed Round in 2022
Pollinations is a platform designed to facilitate image and video viewing experiences. The deep tech of AI is developing tools. The developers used AI models. They provide customized outcomes and specific aesthetics. The AI creation can be integrated directly within websites and social media platforms. They offer AI-powered experiences like festival installations for the creative industry.
At Botanic, we provide products that are capable of understanding and responding to human dialogue. The Botanic bot platform allows Conversational AI via many channels, from text messages for chatbots to realtime video interaction for conversational avatars. Our secure platform provides authentication services, ensuring the system is safe from attacks and trusted by users. If conversation is the UI to AI then personality is the UX. At Botanic don’t just provide you with the platform but are also available to help you research, design, and deploy you system. We design a meaningful, interactive experience by providing digital characters with the voice, face, animation and mannerisms to provide context and emotionally appropriate responses.

Meme.com

Seed Round in 2021
Meme.com is a platform dedicated to meme markets and trend exploration.

REXS.IO

Pre Seed Round in 2020
REXS.IO is a technology stack for DLT-based notarization of existing data and data ingestion streams with a clear decoupling of trust and persistence layers. Organizations can benefit from the immutability and tamper-resistance of the distributed ledgers without data throughput limitations typical of permissionless DLTs. REXS.IO abstracts the technical complexities and nuances of the DLT ecosystem. Our solutions are built with intuitive user interfaces and end-to-end chain of trust and scalability in mind. By design, REXS.IO is technology agnostic. We provide a framework with the freedom to choose and deploy the most suitable stack, rather than forcing a user to utilize a particular blockchain or a storage solution.

Crypto Walkers

Seed Round in 2022
6545 Metaverse Ready Walkers. 3D animated. Upcoming P2E game, & Walker World on Unreal Engine
The IOTA Foundation is the Next-Generation Blockchain and was initiated with a very clear and focused vision of enabling the paradigm shift of the Internet of Things, Industry 4.0 and a trustless ‘On Demand Economy’ through establishing a de facto standardized ‘Ledger of Everything'. It aims to enable all connected devices through verification of truth and transactional settlements which incentivize devices to make available its properties and data in real time. The IOTA Foundation is based in Berlin, Germany.

MasterClass

Series F in 2021
Founded in 2015, MasterClass is the platform that makes it possible for anyone to learn from the best. With MasterClass, step into Anna Wintour’s office, Timbaland’s recording studio, and Neil Gaiman’s writing retreat. Improve your serve with Serena Williams, perfect your pitch with Shonda Rhimes, and leave the atmosphere with Chris Hadfield. Hundreds of video lessons from 85+ of today’s most brilliant minds are available anytime, anywhere with the All-Access Pass ($180 per year). Subscribe to greatness with MasterClass.

Nyctale

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Nyctale SAS designs and develops analytics tools to analyze the usages, measure the value, and control the money flows on new transactional networks. The company develops big data / AI solutions to monitor distributed ledger technologies and to analyze token usage and operates as an indicator. It offers risk assessment, beta-test on product development, and investment strategies. Also, the company engages in the rationalization of the token-economy and provides blockchain monitoring and business intelligence solutions. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Paris, France.

Auroboros

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Operator of a metaverse native luxury fashion house creating style and status for all realms. The company designs fashion for the digital space and allows customers to try on their designs through various social platforms, enabling customers to explore their creativity and fashion identity at zero cost of material waste.

Token Fabrik

Series A in 2021
Operator of an asset financing platform intended to connect investors and asset originators. The company's platform helps to purchase and operate a new asset to make connections via smart contracts for usage-based billing of the underlying asset, enabling investors to buy and sell individual tokens at any time.

Sgnal

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Sgnal is a Web based consumer intelligence platform. They have the tools they need to thrive in NFTs and Web3. They use machine learning driven by AI to analyse both ongoing and planned projects. Signal delivers actionable, solid proof that is important to the success of Web3 and NFT.

Rocksbox

Series A in 2016
Rocksbox is transforming the way women discover and buy jewelry. We are a fast-growing, venture-backed jewelry eCommerce business building the destination retail brand for jewelry and accessories. We’re passionate about delivering products our customers love, leveraging technology and data to do so.Our team is cross-functional, collaborative, and positive. People come first, and we love working with smart, passionate, creative people every day.
Alkemi AI Inc. develops and provides a non-custodial infrastructure platform for digital assets to connect with exchanges. Its platform facilitates open access to liquidity and streamlined settlement for its customers (institutional capital allocators) and partners (exchange venues and third party providers) for solving the problem of digital asset market inefficiency. The company’s on-chain liquidity protocol is a non-custodial solution for stakeholders to earn incentives on their idle crypto assets while providing the infrastructure required for exchanges to stabilize market prices. Alkemi AI Inc. was founded in 2018 and is based in Toronto, Canada.
Sovrin Foundation is a not for profit organization provides permanent digital identity for people and organizations—by building, administering, and promoting a decentralized, public, and global identity utility. The Organization was founded in 2016 and is based in Provo, Utah.

Shamba

Seed Round in 2022
Geospatial data oracle for Defi, Refi and prediction markets

CrowdFounder

Pre Seed Round in 2020
CrowdFounder is a startup factory hatching home grown concepts and matching founders to head them up. Our initial focus: building “Crypto Collectibles” – actually scarce digital goods and digi-physical redeemable products minted on the Ethereum Blockchain. They’re technically NFTs, non-fungible tokens or “nifties” for short. It’s strange new territory.. and it’s fun.
Foamspace Corp. develops geospatial protocol for blockchain applications and proof of location. The company’s products include FOAM Map and Foam Location. Foam Location is an autonomous network of radios that offer secure location services through time synchronization. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Merrick, New York.

SuperWorld

Funding Round in 2021
SuperWorld is building community in AR powered by the blockchain. We have built an AR Real Estate marketplace + Ad marketplace on the blockchain (superworldapp.com) and a social AR app which allows users to personalize the real world by adding anything anywhere in augmented reality with photos, videos, texts, and 3D objects, and share the AR experience with their followers.

Evernym

Venture Round in 2017
Evernym is building the next generation of identity infrastructure for the world, enabling trusted peer interactions between individuals, organizations, and things. Having created and released Sovrin, the first open-source distributed ledger network dedicated to self-sovereign identity, Evernym works with leading companies, institutions and NGOs to create and deploy new private-by-design solutions which give the individual true control and ownership of their personal data.

SkyGrid

Seed Round in 2021
SkyGrid is a real-time web service that keeps people up-to-date on the things they care about. It is located in Sunnyvale, California and is operated and privately owned by SkyGrid, Inc. In April 2010, SkyGrid launched on the Apple iPad with an application to browse and share streams of news. People use SkyGrid to receive updates on trending news and to follow their personal interests. SkyGrid's name comes from the combining the word "Sky" representing a vast limitless space and "Grid" a simple way to organize an unlimited amount of information. SkyGrid was founded by Kevin Pomplun, in 2005 when he was 22 years old. SkyGrid began building technology to create a way for people to see what information was traveling the fastest. As a result of this, Pomplun invented Information Velocity and was issued a United States Patent Aug 23, 2007. SkyGrid began as a real-time search service, then licensed it to the financial market, and now has returned to its original use to provide updates on information people are interested in. In January 2011, SkyGrid announced the launch of SkyGrid Groups; a service that connects people with the music artists, brands, and public figures they are passionate about. Groups is a new social forum; connecting the conversations people are having all over the web — on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and hundreds of other places — in one place. For ex, music artists use Groups to connect with fans who are excited about an upcoming show. Brands use Groups to connect with customers who are excited about a new product. Public figures use Groups to connect with voters who are excited about akey issue in their community. Even humanitarian causes are now using Groups to connect with people who want to help.

CoinBurp

Seed Round in 2021
CoinBurp’s mission is to tackle the common misconception that only the young or technically-minded can enter the cryptocurrency market by creating a uniquely user-friendly trading platform for everyone.

CoinBurp

Pre Seed Round in 2020
CoinBurp’s mission is to tackle the common misconception that only the young or technically-minded can enter the cryptocurrency market by creating a uniquely user-friendly trading platform for everyone.

OPgames

Pre Seed Round in 2020
OPgames is a suite of tools that enables game developers to provide mini esports experiences to their players through tournaments and PvP match ups with crypto as a buy-in and pay-outs.

Pynk

Funding Round in 2021
Pynk uses Artificial Intelligence to find the Wisdom IN Crowds™, making better investment decisions for all. Our Crowd, across more than 185 countries, make predictions and forecasts on financial assets. We aggregate the data and use machine learning to read the markets. It’s this ‘Crowd Wisdom’ system that powers our wealth management platform. The team is led by serial entrepreneurs Seth Ward, Rupert Barksfield and Mark Little who each have a proven commercial track record, and successful exits from other businesses. The company was formed in 2018 after the founders met and graduated from the Silicon Valley led Founders Institute programme. They are now supported by RBS and Natwest banks in the UK and 360 Labs. Having raised $2m in pre-seed and seed rounds, Pynk's next raise will open up Q1 2021.

Sperax

Seed Round in 2020
Sperax builds trusted infrastructure for decentralized finance. At infrastructure level, Sperax BDLS consensus protocol ensures the highest-level security and performance. On top of it, the Sperax Foundation embedded a financial layer with a native multi-currency stablecoin — — sCOIN — — the first in the public blockchain ecosystem, to bridge Internet users and crypto-native applications. Sperax is supported by Outlier Ventures and FBG Capital. Founded at Menlo Park in Silicon Valley, California in 2019, Sperax team now spreads across the U.S., Singapore, Greece, and China.

Haja Networks

Private Placement in 2018
They build foundational distributed and decentralized technologies for the future Internet. With open-source, transparency and diversity as their core values, they are currently developing OrbitDB, a scalable and trustless peer-to-peer database, and database protocols for a global data layer to re-decentralize the web. The name Haja comes from the Finnish prefix that signifies decentralization.

fetch.ai

Seed Round in 2018
Fetch.AI is delivering an economic Internet where representatives of the component parts of the economy can work friction-free, autonomously and free of human-interaction to deliver solutions to complex problems. It acts as a disintermediation agent: seamlessly introducing those that have to those that want, with self-service trust in an environment that restructures itself semantically in real-time to present the most optimal working environment to each of its users.

DIA

Pre Seed Round in 2019
DIA (Decentralised Information Asset) is an open-source, data and oracle platform for the DeFi ecosystem. DIA leverages crypto-economic incentives to drive supply, share and use transparent, crowd-verified price data and oracles on financial and digital assets.

Nyctale

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Nyctale SAS designs and develops analytics tools to analyze the usages, measure the value, and control the money flows on new transactional networks. The company develops big data / AI solutions to monitor distributed ledger technologies and to analyze token usage and operates as an indicator. It offers risk assessment, beta-test on product development, and investment strategies. Also, the company engages in the rationalization of the token-economy and provides blockchain monitoring and business intelligence solutions. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Paris, France.

Wear

Pre Seed Round in 2021
WEAR is Asia’s first luxury platform that combines a highly curated marketplace with purpose-built metaverses allowing users to purchase and showcase their NFT collections, and interact with other like-minded collectors in our community, ushering in a new era of digital ownership.

Swan Chain

Seed Round in 2023
Swan Chain develops a storage and computing infrastructure layer for Web3. It offers a complete solution that easily enables web3 developers to integrate decentralized storage, edge computing, and payment across multiple chains.

31Third

Seed Round in 2023
31Third is a decentralized asset management infrastructure radically optimizing trade execution and portfolio management in DeFi. The Infrastructure enables you to trade with multiple assets in one order without slippage.

Takenos

Seed Round in 2024
Takenos provides the best way to get paid in crypto for freelancers and contractors.

Swipelux

Seed Round in 2023
Swipelux is a payment gateway widget, that enables the end-user to buy crypto using his credit/debit card. Swipelux is B2B focus, with the ability to integrate this fast, safe and flexible widget into all kinds of Websites, Crypto exchanges, Crypto wallets, Defi, NFT marketplaces.

Momint

Seed Round in 2023
Momint is a blockchain technology company. Momint specializes in putting real assets and legal contracts on the blockchain. Momint Marketplace enables the trade of solar energy, heritage assets, and art through advanced and secure blockchain technology. Their mechanism allows individuals to support renewable energy adoption.

Metropolis World Ltd

Pre Seed Round in 2024
The capital city of the Metaverse