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.
Metalinq is an operator web3 platform that allows users to access wearables across several metaverses. Their platform uses a layer 3 protocol that interconnects the metaverse and gaming platforms, allowing NFT degens to track their wearables across chains and wallets.
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.
Threedium Limited is a London-based company that offers a platform for creating customizable three-dimensional (3D) advertisements and widgets for products. Established in 2017, Threedium focuses on enhancing online brand experiences through interactive and photorealistic 3D and augmented reality (AR) formats, which are applicable across eCommerce, digital advertising, and social media. Its key products, such as the Threedium 3D Web Configurator and Threedium 3D Advertising, allow brands to transform static images into fully interactive 3D/AR models that work seamlessly on any device. The platform not only facilitates the management and distribution of 3D assets but also provides a robust user experience that helps businesses of all sizes engage customers more effectively. By enabling real-time product personalization and visualization, Threedium aims to bridge the gap between online shopping and in-store experiences, ultimately increasing customer engagement and driving sales conversions.
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.
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Seed Round in 2022
DAO-based auditing service enhancing the transparency of automated processes.
Almalia is the platform that provides access to all of the various software, infrastructure and services providers a game developer needs, including access to multiple SDK and API providers.
SportsDAO is a consultancy with the goal of empowering sports organizations and initiatives with creative Web3 technologies. In addition to providing value to sports communities around the world, they reinvent and reengineer the sports sector. It is on Web3 that seeks to build a world in which athletes, owners, fans, and businesses have the power to influence the sports they love in the exact way they have envisioned.
Fayre is an NFT marketplace and ecosystem for brands and fans. It features a multi-chain NFT platform, a brand dashboard and companion app to take NFTs into retail, stadium and festival environments. Fayre provides a comprehensive suite of tools for brands to participate and engage with their current and future audiences in real life and across the Metaverse. • A multi-chain marketplace. • A dashboard for brands. • An NFT membership club. • Zero transaction fees. • A companion app. • Metaverse commerce. All these modules are wrapped in a friendly UX that hides the underlying complexity of smart contracts. At the core of this ecosystem is the $FAYRE utility and governance token that loops together on all sides of the NFT market. $FAYRE is a utility and governance token that powers the Fayre Marketplace. It has rich functionality for every side of the market: buyers, sellers, and creators. More specifically, the token is used for: • Sending rewards • Payments on the marketplace • Discounts on transaction fees • Governance voting • Staking Together, this combination of functionalities should simultaneously provide ample velocity (through the use as rewards and payments) and remove excessive supply from the circulation (via staking). Fayre’s aim is to build a long term ecosystem. Short term an NFT Marketplace with 0% transaction fees. Medium term providing utility and governance via the $FAYRE token. And long term building of Web3 modular components and P2E functionality on the Metaverse. Fayre was founded by Luis Carranza and Fernando Torres. Luis is a serial entrepreneur and community builder. He started his career building digital strategy and innovation departments at various marketing agencies, helping brands navigate digital, social and mobile integration. Later, Luis launched London Fintech Week and Blockchain Week, as well as founded Fintech Worldwide Limited, which was sold in 2019. Luis served as the marketing director of Boson Protocol, where he was immersed in NFTs. He soon launched Fayre to help brands enter Web3 and engage with fans. Fernando is a technologist and entrepreneur with 15 years of experience in software development. Fernando is passionate about media creation, decentralization, and storytelling, and takes a holistic view of technology and product development. Previously, Fernando won the NFTHack by ETHGlobal competition in the SuperRare category. Prior to joining Fayre, he developed NFT technology as CTO of Coins2Learn, which drove him to co-found Fayre, where he is creating state-of-the-art technology for brands and fans.
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.
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.
Januus enables cryptocurrency, working to accelerate its adoption by the global financial community. They collects data from around the internet to develop linkages between bitcoin wallets and identities, bridging the blockchain divide.
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.
Pynk is a wealth management platform that leverages Artificial Intelligence to harness the collective insights of its global community, referred to as "Crowd Wisdom." With participants from over 185 countries, Pynk aggregates predictions and forecasts on financial assets, utilizing machine learning to analyze market trends and inform investment decisions. Founded in 2018 by experienced entrepreneurs Seth Ward, Rupert Barksfield, and Mark Little, the company emerged from the Silicon Valley-led Founders Institute program. It is supported by financial institutions such as RBS and Natwest, and has successfully raised $2 million in initial funding. Pynk aims to enhance investment strategies by combining community input with expert analysis, allowing investors to mitigate risks and pursue superior returns.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Swash is an ecosystem of tools and services that enable people, businesses, and developers to unlock the latent value of data by pooling, securely sharing, and monetising its value. People share their data to earn while retaining their privacy. Businesses access high-quality, zero-party data in a sustainable and compliant way. Developers set up and build systems within a collaborative development framework with ease. Swash is reimagining data ownership by enabling all actors of the data economy to earn, access, build and collaborate in a liquid digital ecosystem for data.
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 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.
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.
Cudo Ventures Limited specializes in developing monetization applications that convert idle hardware into revenue streams. The company offers several platforms, including Cudo Miner, which automates cryptocurrency mining, minimizing the need for manual configuration. Cudo Compute enables users to monetize their underutilized computing power through a collaborative consumption network. Additionally, Cudo Donate facilitates charitable giving by channeling harvested donations from users to support various causes. Cudo Gamer connects game publishers and developers, enhancing the gaming ecosystem. Established in 2017 and headquartered in London, Cudo Ventures operates globally, managing millions of devices across cloud computing and blockchain environments in over 145 countries. The company's innovative approach aims to optimize the world's computing capacity, delivering significant value to users and promoting a decentralized, sustainable future.
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.