Outlier Ventures

Outlier Ventures is a London-based venture platform founded in 2013 that focuses on investing in early-stage startups developing transformative technologies, particularly in the blockchain, AI, and IoT sectors. As a pioneer in blockchain investment in Europe, the firm has cultivated a robust investment thesis centered on the convergence of decentralized technologies with advancements in various fields, aiming to establish a new decentralized data infrastructure that supports the evolution of Web 3.0. Outlier Ventures not only provides financial backing but also offers extensive support through its Base Camp program, which serves as an incubation and acceleration platform for pre-seed projects, providing resources such as office space, legal assistance, and operational support. The firm has a dedicated team of specialists and operates globally, investing in a diverse range of sectors including gaming, NFTs, decentralized finance, and middleware.

Aron Ammers

Founding Partner & Chief Technology Officer

Stephan Apel

Founding Partner & Chief Executive Officer

Jamie Burke

CEO and Founder

Lawrence Lundy

Partner and Head of Research

Ana-Maria Yanakieva

Investor

Past deals in Pre Seed Round

DeepSquare

Pre Seed Round in 2022
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.

Hashguild

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

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.

Dropper

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Dropper is a multi-chain marketplace that launches NFT projects with customizable smart contracts. Dropper is a digital web3 platform for celebrities to create unique experiences for fans powered by NFTs and Tokenization.

Wear

Pre Seed Round in 2021
WEAR is a pioneering non-fungible token platform focused on brands and contemporary artists. As Asia's first luxury platform of its kind, it combines a curated marketplace with purpose-built metaverses, enabling users to purchase and showcase their NFT collections while interacting with a community of like-minded collectors. The platform serves as a comprehensive solution for brand partners, offering them new business models and revenue streams through innovative storytelling channels, activations, and engagement opportunities. By facilitating the creation of products and curated experiences, WEAR aims to redefine digital ownership and enhance the connection between brands, artists, and their audiences.

Matterless Studios

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Matterless is a group of artists who believe that any sufficiently sophisticated technology is indistinguishable from magic. We are determined not to lose sight of our community of loving humans while the company leverages technology to create magical ties between people and all things matterless.

Auroboros

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Operator of a metaverse native luxury fashion house intended to create 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.

Tokenfabrik

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Developer 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.

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.

bloXmove

Pre Seed Round in 2021
We provide a seamless Mobility Blockchain Platform for urban mobility by building an ecosystem built on alliances. Our decentralized B2B infrastructure interconnects mobility services providers such as scooter, car sharing, public transport etc. to enable 1-click customer journeys from A to Z. We enable service roaming and provide a global “Alliance for Mobility''.

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.

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.

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.

MarbleCards

Pre Seed Round in 2020
http://Marble.Cards is a collectible card game based on web URLs. Any link you visit can be turned into a Marble card, but only once. Discord: https://bit.ly/2N5Uv3a

Cryptio

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Cryptio is a financial data analysis tool specifically designed for the cryptocurrency sector, catering to CFOs and CPAs. The software automates accounting, bookkeeping, and tax reporting for digital assets by consolidating transaction data from various wallets and exchanges. It transforms this data into formats suitable for accounting and financial analysis, simplifying compliance with regulations and audits. By integrating seamlessly with existing accounting practices and systems, Cryptio allows clients to effectively manage, report, and monitor their daily accounting transactions related to cryptocurrencies. This enables firms to focus on their core operations without the complexities of financial management associated with digital assets.

Linkdrop

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Linkdrop Labs, Inc. is a customer acquisition platform based in Albany, New York, that specializes in creating, distributing, and measuring onboarding links with integrated digital rewards. Established in 2018, Linkdrop enables companies, particularly in the cryptocurrency sector, to reach a broad audience through popular channels such as SMS, email, and social media campaigns. The platform encodes digital assets into shareable links and QR codes, allowing users to claim tokens and NFTs without needing a pre-existing cryptocurrency wallet. This innovative approach helps businesses accelerate growth and achieve mass adoption by facilitating seamless access to digital assets for new users. Linkdrop's capabilities include analyzing conversion rates, providing user insights, and offering tools for effective onboarding processes.

Heymate

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Heymate aims at bringing gig-economy micro-entrepreneurs the flexibility they want while securing their revenue. The heymate platform helps to simplify and formalize deal terms and conditions, manage escrow payment and resolving disputes, all while offering an ecosystem of services such as getting short-term and on-demand insurance, micro-loans, etc. to support micro-entrepreneurs as they grow. The heymate mobile app is the first feature of the heymate platform, operated by Swiss Crypto Valley embedded Blockchain Application AG. With the heymate mobile-app, 100 million people will be able to do business for the first time, and everyone else will be able to close a deal 100 times faster. heymate - let's reinvent the handshake! Registered and fully compliant member of the Crypto Valley Association, https://cryptovalley.swiss/.

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.

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.
Tapmydata builds tools for people to own their digital identity and organisations to rebuild trust, with Privacy by Design and blockchain keeping the score.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Biconomy

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Biconomy is a technology company that develops a multichain relayer protocol aimed at simplifying transactions and onboarding for Web3 projects. Its infrastructure network serves as a transaction highway that reduces friction between blockchain applications and end-users. By providing an SDK and dashboard, Biconomy abstracts the complexities associated with wallet setup, private key management, gas fees, and cryptocurrency purchases. The platform facilitates gas-efficient meta-transactions at scale, enabling developers to create seamless interactions between decentralized applications (DApps) and users. Through its innovative approach, Biconomy enhances the overall user experience within the blockchain ecosystem.

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.

Bond180

Pre 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.

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.

Boson Protocol

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Boson Protocol is a decentralized marketplace that addresses the challenge of trading physical assets through smart contracts. It eliminates the need for intermediaries, allowing for fully automated transactions that manage payment, expiry, and complaints without human intervention. The protocol facilitates reliable transactions that are executed simultaneously, ensuring trust and efficiency. Additionally, Boson Protocol incorporates a Web3 data marketplace to gather customer feedback, enhancing its service offerings. The platform also tokenizes reward vouchers as NFTs, providing a means for customers to store, transfer, or sell these vouchers, thereby integrating real-world products and services into a blockchain framework. Founded in 2019 and based in Taunton, United Kingdom, Boson Protocol represents a significant opportunity to establish a universal system for non-monetary value exchange and a comprehensive product data marketplace.

Weaver Labs

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Weaver Labs is a developer of a decentralized telecommunications platform aimed at enhancing existing communications systems, particularly in relation to 5G technology. The company focuses on addressing the limitations of current infrastructures that hinder innovation. By leveraging 5G technologies, blockchain, and open-source hardware, Weaver Labs creates an application layer that allows individuals to create, contribute to, and manage essential network elements. This model empowers users by enabling them to control their personal and sensitive information, while also providing a mechanism for compensation based on their contributions.

Alkemi

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Alkemi AI Inc. is a Toronto-based company that offers a non-custodial infrastructure platform designed to enhance access to liquidity for digital assets. Founded in 2018, Alkemi's platform connects institutional capital allocators with exchange venues and third-party providers, addressing inefficiencies in the digital asset market. By utilizing an on-chain liquidity protocol, the company allows stakeholders to earn incentives on idle crypto assets while delivering the necessary infrastructure for exchanges to stabilize market prices. This community-based liquidity solution helps alleviate price discrepancies in the fragmented centralized exchange markets and supports the growing demand for decentralized and peer-to-peer trading platforms.

Tracifier

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Tracifier is a blockchain-based traceability application used for supply chain and certificate verification. The solution supports the accuracy and transparency of customer claims with monitoring and inspecting of products history. It provides an efficient way of working across the supply chain, including growers, processors, shippers, retailers, and regulators and benefits all network participants with a safer, intelligent, and sustainable supply chain ecosystem. Our mission at Tracifier is to reduce yearly $50 billion food fraud in markets and develop sustainability practices in agribusiness worldwide by a blockchain-enabled system for provenance, traceability, and efficiency. Delivering transparency and trust to the supply network, safer food, longer shelf lives, reduced waste, faster traceability, and better access to shared information is part of the benefits of using Tracifier track and trace. Tracifier empowers suppliers to meet the new standard for their supply chain management and deliver their practical and social promises to markets.

Alkemi

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Alkemi AI Inc. is a Toronto-based company that offers a non-custodial infrastructure platform designed to enhance access to liquidity for digital assets. Founded in 2018, Alkemi's platform connects institutional capital allocators with exchange venues and third-party providers, addressing inefficiencies in the digital asset market. By utilizing an on-chain liquidity protocol, the company allows stakeholders to earn incentives on idle crypto assets while delivering the necessary infrastructure for exchanges to stabilize market prices. This community-based liquidity solution helps alleviate price discrepancies in the fragmented centralized exchange markets and supports the growing demand for decentralized and peer-to-peer trading platforms.