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

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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 Switzerland

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.

GameDAO

Series A in 2021
GameDAO is a decentralised autonomous cooperative, fostering sustainability in financing of video games, creative content, digital arts, e-sports and gaming as a profession. It provides matchmaking and crowd based funding instruments, connecting and empowering loyal gamers, creators, publishers and investors.

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.

DIA

Funding Round in 2020
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.

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/.

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.
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