Outlier Ventures

Outlier Ventures is a London-based venture platform founded in 2013 that invests in early-stage technology startups, particularly those focused on blockchain and emerging technologies. Recognized as Europe's first venture firm dedicated to blockchain, it has developed a distinct investment thesis surrounding the convergence of decentralized technologies with advancements in artificial intelligence, robotics, and the Internet of Things. This convergence is seen as pivotal for building a new open data infrastructure, which is essential for the evolution of Web 3.0. Outlier Ventures operates an acceleration program called Base Camp, which provides pre-seed projects with office space, legal, and operational support over a three-month period. The firm actively partners with seed and growth-stage companies committed to this vision, leveraging a team of specialists across various domains to support founders and enhance their growth trajectories. With a global presence that includes locations in London, Toronto, Chicago, and Amsterdam, Outlier Ventures aims to create significant value in the technology sector while securing a position at the forefront of innovative developments.

Stephan Apel

Founding Partner and CEO

Rupert Barksfield

Investor

Jamie Burke

CEO and Founder

Max Coniglio

Associate

Nikolay Dakov

Analyst

Eden Dhaliwal

Investor

Christopher Donovan

Managing Director

Jonathan Gabler

Venture Partner

Patrick Grant

Investor

Michael Harte

Investor

Cecille de Jesus

Associate

Marc C. Johnson

Associate

Charlotte Kapoor

Partner

Matt Law

Partner

Elliot Leimer

Investor

Blake Lezenski

Investor

Incorrect Formation 2

Investor

Mohamed Eisimat Mohamed

Investor

Robin Andre Nordnes

Analyst

Robert Osborne

Investor

Rupa Ganatra Popat

Investor

Tim Rule

Managing Director

Daniele Sileri

Venture Partner

Laura Muriel Texidor

Associate

Lucian Urbach

Investor

Ana-Maria Yanakieva

Investor

Michael K S Kam

Investor

Past deals in London

Smilee Labs

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.

Darabase

Seed Round in 2023
Darabase is an augmented reality outdoor media company that provides a comprehensive platform for brands, advertisers, and retailers to implement immersive augmented reality campaigns in real-world settings. The company enhances existing outdoor media, such as screens and billboards, by delivering permission-based AR campaigns in prominent locations. Its "Run of World" inventory network ensures broad geographic coverage for these campaigns. Darabase aids retailers in attracting customers and increasing sales through AR experiences while allowing property owners to monetize their spaces. The platform also offers tools to monitor the placement and engagement of AR content, ensuring effective management of digital assets in physical environments.

Metalinq

Pre Seed Round in 2022
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

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.

Threedium

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Threedium Limited, based in London and incorporated in 2017, develops a cloud-based platform that enhances online brand experiences by enabling the creation of interactive three-dimensional (3D) and augmented reality (AR) advertisements and product configurators. This technology allows businesses to transform static images into dynamic 3D models that can be seamlessly integrated across various digital channels and devices, improving engagement and facilitating personalized customer experiences. Threedium's solutions are designed to bridge the gap between online and in-store interactions, permitting customers to visualize and customize products in real-time, which increases product consideration and purchasing intent. The platform serves a wide range of industries, helping brands create memorable experiences that drive conversions and foster customer loyalty.

BmyBit

Pre Seed Round in 2022
BmyBit is a predictive analytics company based in London that specializes in automated trading solutions for cryptocurrency traders. Founded in 2015, the company provides a Personal Automated Trading System (PATS) that allows traders of all skill levels—beginners, intermediate, and advanced—to customize their automated trading strategies. BmyBit's platform connects users across multiple exchanges and offers a user-friendly interface that facilitates unlimited trading opportunities. By enabling traders to tailor their strategies, the platform effectively responds to market trends and helps mitigate risks associated with the volatility of digital assets, allowing users to capitalize on price fluctuations.

Edge

Seed Round in 2022
Edge Esports Ltd is a company based in Holborn, United Kingdom, that specializes in providing a comprehensive platform for tournament organizers, teams, and gamers. Established in 2018, the company offers a range of services including management of contracts, payment processing, and real-time data solutions. Edge Esports facilitates both signed and unsigned contracts and provides various payment options, along with back-office solutions to support the operational needs of its clients. The platform aims to streamline the business aspects of esports, enhancing the overall experience for all stakeholders involved in competitive gaming.

Yanda

Seed Round in 2022
DAO-based auditing service enhancing the transparency of automated processes.

Made for Gamers

Seed Round in 2022
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

Seed Round in 2022
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.

Post-Quantum

Seed Round in 2022
Post-Quantum was founded to counter the emergent threat of quantum cryptanalysis. The company has since branched out into Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) and blockchain-enabled enterprise SaaS.

Obey

Seed Round in 2022
Obey operates a decentralized exchange focused on the hip-hop music industry, enabling users to trade derivative contracts that speculate on the future streaming performance of hip-hop songs. By converting music into financial derivatives, Obey allows hip-hop fans to engage in speculative trading, transforming them into participants in a financial ecosystem. The platform models these contracts as dynamically priced non-fungible tokens, offering users a unique investment banking experience tailored specifically for the hip-hop genre. Through this innovative approach, Obey bridges the gap between music and finance, catering to a niche market of hip-hop enthusiasts interested in the economic aspects of their favorite songs.

me3.eth

Seed Round in 2022
Personal ENS websites. The Linktree of Web3

Yanda

Pre Seed Round in 2022
DAO-based auditing service enhancing the transparency of automated processes.

Fayre

Seed Round in 2022
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.

The Round

Seed Round in 2022
Live AR Entertainment / powered by audiences with Web3

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.

hundo.xyz

Seed Round 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.

Januus

Pre Seed Round in 2021
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.

Ferriswheel

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.

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.

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.

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.

Cudo Compute

Series A in 2020
Cudo Compute is a platform that facilitates the monetization of underutilized computing resources by enabling users to access distributed computing power from idle data center hardware globally. By leveraging a decentralized approach, Cudo Compute allows businesses and individuals to deploy virtual machines efficiently, finding optimal resources in ideal locations at competitive prices. This platform aims to democratize cloud computing by offering a sustainable model that enhances economic, environmental, and societal benefits. Users can scale their computing needs flexibly without being constrained by traditional centralized cloud infrastructures. Cudo Compute operates in over 145 countries, managing millions of devices and delivering significant advantages in availability, proximity, and cost efficiency. Through this innovative approach, Cudo Compute empowers users to monetize unused computing capacity while responding effectively to changing market demands.

Ferriswheel

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.

Bond180

Seed Round in 2020
Bond180 Limited is a fintech company based in London that focuses on providing technology solutions within the primary debt capital markets. Established in 2019, the company has developed a digital platform that includes a demand management system (DMS) designed to enhance the market-facing activities of institutional investors through improved data and analytics. Additionally, Bond180 offers 180Match, a reverse enquiry engine that facilitates streamlined communication between buyers and sellers in the debt market. The firm also operates an issue administration network, which provides digital asset issuance and administration services to the sell-side. By offering these innovative tools, Bond180 aims to help institutional investors efficiently identify value and source assets for their portfolios.

Swash

Seed Round in 2020
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.

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.

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.

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 is a fintech company based in London that focuses on providing technology solutions within the primary debt capital markets. Established in 2019, the company has developed a digital platform that includes a demand management system (DMS) designed to enhance the market-facing activities of institutional investors through improved data and analytics. Additionally, Bond180 offers 180Match, a reverse enquiry engine that facilitates streamlined communication between buyers and sellers in the debt market. The firm also operates an issue administration network, which provides digital asset issuance and administration services to the sell-side. By offering these innovative tools, Bond180 aims to help institutional investors efficiently identify value and source assets for their portfolios.

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.

Cudo Compute

Seed Round in 2019
Cudo Compute is a platform that facilitates the monetization of underutilized computing resources by enabling users to access distributed computing power from idle data center hardware globally. By leveraging a decentralized approach, Cudo Compute allows businesses and individuals to deploy virtual machines efficiently, finding optimal resources in ideal locations at competitive prices. This platform aims to democratize cloud computing by offering a sustainable model that enhances economic, environmental, and societal benefits. Users can scale their computing needs flexibly without being constrained by traditional centralized cloud infrastructures. Cudo Compute operates in over 145 countries, managing millions of devices and delivering significant advantages in availability, proximity, and cost efficiency. Through this innovative approach, Cudo Compute empowers users to monetize unused computing capacity while responding effectively to changing market demands.

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.

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.
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