Outlier Ventures

Outlier Ventures, established in 2014 and based in London, is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in the emerging crypto ecosystem and Web3 technologies. It operates a highly regarded accelerator program known as Base Camp, which has received over 5,000 applications and has been instrumental in raising more than $350 million for its portfolio of over 220 projects globally. Outlier Ventures targets transformative companies in sectors such as decentralized finance, non-fungible tokens, and blockchain infrastructure, emphasizing applications within the Metaverse, including digital fashion, gaming, and social platforms. The firm collaborates with leading protocols and has expanded its accelerator offerings to support various Web3 ecosystems. By adopting a blockchain-agnostic approach, Outlier Ventures aims to foster a new web paradigm that prioritizes user sovereignty and data ownership. Through its commitment to innovation and growth, the firm has positioned itself as one of the most active investors in the crypto space.

Vangelis Andrikopoulos

Analyst

Stephan Apel

Managing Partner

Charlotte Kapoor nee Baker

Head of Strategic Partnerships

Jamie Burke

CEO and Founder

Matt Law

Partner

Elliot Leimer

Senior Accelerator Lead

Blake Lezenski

Partner Program Director

Shounak Shetty

Principal

Yanakieva, Ana-Maria

Admin

Past deals in Peer to Peer

Blockless

Seed Round in 2023
Blockless is a developer of a web assembly-based platform that facilitates verifiable serverless functions, specifically designed to support the development and performance of decentralized applications. The platform features multiple nodes equipped with customizable consensus mechanisms, ensuring reliable execution within a secure runtime environment. It also prioritizes secure data transmission and compatibility with familiar programming languages, empowering developers to efficiently launch applications on a global decentralized network. By decentralizing its services without compromise, Blockless aims to enhance the capabilities and performance of decentralized application development.

Common Ground

Pre Seed Round in 2022
The web3-native messaging and voice chat platform. Built as a public good.

BmyBit

Pre Seed Round in 2022
BmyBit develops automated cryptocurrency trading. It can place buy and sell orders in a fraction of a second with no delay. They also want to improve off-chain transaction transparency.

Obey

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

Qbitcloud

Seed Round in 2022
A quantum computing enabled blockchain that uses proof of quantum work as the consensus protocol.

Lexie

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Decentralized shopping concierge

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.

Post-Quantum

Seed Round in 2022
Post-Quantum is a cybersecurity company established to address the rising threat of quantum cryptanalysis. It specializes in developing systems and products aimed at safeguarding valuable data and workflows. The company offers biometric authentication solutions and a secure encrypted communications platform for both mobile and desktop devices, ensuring data confidentiality, authenticity, and access control. Additionally, Post-Quantum has expanded its focus to include Identity and Access Management (IAM) and blockchain-enabled enterprise software as a service (SaaS), providing clients with comprehensive tools to operate safely and securely in an increasingly digital landscape.

Wicrypt

Seed Round in 2021
Wicrypt is a company that offers a blockchain-based application allowing users to monetize their mobile data by sharing it with others. The platform enables users to connect their wireless routers to a decentralized smart Wi-Fi distribution network. Hosts can set a price for their Wi-Fi hotspots, receiving payments for the data consumed by beneficiaries on a per-megabyte basis. Transactions are facilitated through an encrypted wallet, ensuring secure financial exchanges. This model not only incentivizes data sharing but also contributes to a more accessible Wi-Fi network for users.

Januus

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Januus operates a database platform designed to link cryptocurrency wallets with real-world identities, thereby bridging the divide between blockchain technology and the traditional financial system. By collecting and analyzing data from various online sources, the company provides organizations with essential insights into crypto assets, wallets, and transactions. This capability allows businesses to enhance customer understanding, identify potential fraud, comply with regulations, and effectively manage risk. Through its innovative approach, Januus aims to facilitate the broader adoption of cryptocurrency within the global financial community.

Boson Protocol

Funding Round in 2021
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.

Emanate

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Emanate is an Australian limited company that has developed a blockchain-based audio exchange protocol aimed at transforming the music industry. The platform serves as a network marketplace for artists, labels, and fans, facilitating collaboration and interaction among music lovers and creators. Emanate emphasizes instant payments and automation, ensuring that users can earn rewards while contributing to the music ecosystem. By leveraging blockchain technology, Emanate seeks to enhance transparency, trust, and efficiency within the industry, aligning the incentives of all participants and encouraging a new era of music collaboration.

Wicrypt

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Wicrypt is a company that offers a blockchain-based application allowing users to monetize their mobile data by sharing it with others. The platform enables users to connect their wireless routers to a decentralized smart Wi-Fi distribution network. Hosts can set a price for their Wi-Fi hotspots, receiving payments for the data consumed by beneficiaries on a per-megabyte basis. Transactions are facilitated through an encrypted wallet, ensuring secure financial exchanges. This model not only incentivizes data sharing but also contributes to a more accessible Wi-Fi network for users.

heymate

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Heymate operates a deal-closing platform designed to support gig-economy micro-entrepreneurs by providing them with the flexibility they need while ensuring revenue security. The platform simplifies and formalizes deal terms, manages escrow payments, and resolves disputes. Additionally, it offers a range of services, such as short-term insurance and micro-loans, to help entrepreneurs grow their businesses. The heymate mobile app, developed by Swiss Crypto Valley embedded Blockchain Application AG, enables users to conduct business more efficiently, allowing a vast user base to complete transactions significantly faster. By utilizing distributed ledger technology, heymate enhances work and payment flows while offering tools for business management, ultimately empowering clients to establish and manage their micro-businesses effectively.

Primeflow

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Companies looking for talent and 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.

Sperax

Seed Round in 2019
Founded in late 2019, Sperax is a global technology firm building modern money with blockchain technology. Sperax has built a mobile application, Sperax Play, and is building a DeFi ecosystem with a suite of various products, including the automatic yield-bearing stablecoin SperaxUSD, synthetic assets, and derivatives products. With these products, Sperax aims to bridge the gap to the blockchain for both experienced and novice crypto users. SperaxUSD is a crypto collateralised algorithmic yield-bearing stablecoin using a dual token system - SperaxUSD stablecoin and its governance token, SPA. SperaxUSD is partially collateralized and partially backed by the protocol’s ability to mint SPA when redeeming USDs. This allows for SperaxUSD to operate like DAI during market contraction and UST during market expansion. Sperax’s mobile app, Sperax Play (which will be rebranded to Spark), plans to house an NFT marketplace and host Sperax’s Defi products to a global user base. Sperax Play currently has over 600k users, with plans to further expand into Q1 of 2022. Sperax is backed by Jump Trading, FBG Capital, Outlier Ventures, Steve Aoki, and more.

Haja Networks

Venture Round 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.
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