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

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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.

Re:Dreamer

Seed Round in 2023
Re:Dreamer Lab is focused on developing a Blockchain-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform that facilitates secure connections between mainstream systems and blockchains. The company has created a Redeem Protocol that enables the trading of physical goods in the metaverse, allowing users to transition seamlessly from Web2.0 to Web3.0. Its platform includes features such as support for ticketing applications, smart vending machines, and online stores, as well as Redeemable NFTs for trading digital assets. Additionally, Re:Dreamer Lab offers a redeem center for asset trading and a redeem passport that grants access to events and parties, all aimed at enhancing e-commerce capabilities for individuals and businesses alike.

TokenOps

Seed Round in 2023
Developer of a token vesting management platform designed for investors & communities. The company's platform tracks and visualizes any vesting smart contracts, token streaming and cap table, exports data and integrate with other accounting tools with CSV and APIs, enabling users to get alerts when someone sells, transfers or uses their tokens for other purposes.

SureFX

Seed Round in 2023
Developer of a decentralized platform designed for hedging for emerging markets. The company's platform uses DeFi and web3 technology for forex hedging, enabling users to freeze their exchange rate in the future and protecting against price volatility.

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.

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.

Caddi

Seed Round in 2022
Caddi.fi operates a crypto trading platform designed to simplify the management of diverse cryptocurrency portfolios. The platform addresses the challenges posed by a fragmented ecosystem of exchanges, wallets, and decentralized applications, enabling users to effectively navigate this complex landscape. Caddi.fi offers features such as portfolio management, a personalized feed, and a browser extension that supports fast charting and trading functionalities. By facilitating seamless trading and tracking across both centralized and decentralized exchanges, the platform allows users to manage their investments in thousands of tokens, thereby enhancing accessibility and organization within the crypto space.

Hashguild

Pre Seed Round in 2022
HashGuild operates as an NFT marketplace specifically designed for the Hedera Hashgraph platform. It provides a comprehensive infrastructure that facilitates the interaction and trading of digital assets between creators and collectors. The marketplace is equipped with a well-structured rewards and incentive system, along with mechanisms to prevent scams, ensuring a secure trading environment. Additionally, HashGuild offers round-the-clock support to enhance the user experience, making it easier for participants to engage in the NFT ecosystem.

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.

Shamba

Seed Round in 2022
Geospatial data oracle for Defi, Refi and prediction markets

Metropolis

Seed Round in 2022
Artist-drawn hip virtual world with integrated commercial functionality

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.

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.

Altered State Machine

Seed Round in 2022
Altered State Machine, aims to be a platform and protocol which any developer can build on it; can create, own, and compete with AI-based agents (bots) and upgrade and train their AI, buy, and sell them as NFTs. This will bring an evolution for NFTS.

Rand Network

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of a financial technology platform designed to build long-term wealth by developing the best money products. The company specializes in helping generate yield, without requiring extensive time commitment each week and it handles due diligence on third-party partners, continuously rebalances staked positions, and reinvests yields to maximize the return, applying a hedge to mitigate concerns about currency fluctuations, enabling users to earn a higher yield than a regular savings account by connecting them with real yields from proof of stake blockchains.

Tokenfabrik

Series A 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

NFT42

Seed Round in 2021
Operator of a non-fungible token-based platform intended to build brands based on the virtual goods and metaverse. The company offers Ethereum-based digital collectibles that are composed of generative vector art and have unique combinations of traits and genes and a comprehensive product suite that enables the development of rich Web3 experiences, enabling clients to build and improve NFTs on blockchains and help navigate the metaverse.

Polkadex

Seed Round in 2021
Polkadex is a decentralized peer-to-peer cryptocurrency exchange designed for the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem, built on the Substrate framework. Its goal is to create a highly interoperable trading platform that connects various blockchain ecosystems, allowing users to trade a wide array of assets beyond just Polkadot and Ethereum. Polkadex aims to establish a next-generation decentralized exchange that maintains a user-friendly experience while adhering to regulatory standards. The platform facilitates the trading of not only cryptocurrencies but also traditional assets, positioning itself as a comprehensive exchange akin to the New York Stock Exchange, where users can trade public company shares, cryptocurrencies, and fiat currencies. By enabling traders to integrate their custom trading algorithms with market data, Polkadex offers an innovative approach to value transfer from traditional financial markets to a decentralized environment.

Umazi

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Developer of a global cross-industry due diligence platform designed to automate and accelerate the corporate identity verification process. The company's platform includes combining distributed ledger technology with network effects to create a utility accepted across regulatory jurisdictions and accessible in different languages, enabling financial entities and law firms to get corporate credentials in a regulated way and prevent any security-related risks.

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.

Boson Protocol

Funding Round in 2020
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.

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.

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.

keyTango

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Developer of a blockchain platform intended to provide requisite infrastructure to the decentralized finance (Defi) space. The company integrates, aggregates, and simplifies such as yield farming and liquidity pools such as yield farming and liquidity pools and offers non-custodial clearing services, enabling retail investors with a simple gateway to popular Defi products and services.

keyTango

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Developer of a blockchain platform intended to provide requisite infrastructure to the decentralized finance (Defi) space. The company integrates, aggregates, and simplifies such as yield farming and liquidity pools such as yield farming and liquidity pools and offers non-custodial clearing services, enabling retail investors with a simple gateway to popular Defi products and services.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Hashdex

Seed Round in 2018
Hashdex is an investment platform that connects traditional financial markets to the emerging world of digital assets. It aims to unlock the potential of blockchain technology for mainstream investors by offering secure, transparent, and cost-effective investment products. The platform is designed to provide access to a variety of blockchain assets while ensuring compliance with regulatory standards. With features such as minimal management fees and the ability for daily subscriptions and redemptions, Hashdex facilitates convenient exposure to the digital asset space, merging the expertise of finance with innovative technology.
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