Outset Capital

Outset Capital is an angel group firm located in San Francisco, California, specializing in investments in early-stage companies. The firm focuses on sectors such as artificial intelligence, deep technology, robotics, and the future of work. By targeting pre-seed and seed stage investments, Outset Capital aims to support innovative startups that are poised to drive advancements in these emerging fields.

Kanjun Qiu

General Partner and Co-Founder

Ali Rohde

Co-Founder and General Partner

21 past transactions

Browserbase

Series A in 2024
Browserbase is a cloud-based platform designed for developers to manage and monitor headless browsers. It offers a range of features including serverless infrastructure, session recording, logging, debugging, automated CAPTCHA solving, and stealth mode, enabling clients to efficiently run and oversee browser automation scripts.

Tako

Seed Round in 2024
Tako is a search engine for visualizing and sharing the world's information.

Hedra

Seed Round in 2024
Hedra is a generative AI video-making tool that focuses on enhancing video production through advanced technology. In addition to its core offering, the company provides management consulting services specifically tailored for the UK public sector. These services encompass business change and transformation, procurement and supply chain management, as well as information management. By combining innovative AI solutions with strategic consulting, Hedra aims to deliver comprehensive support to its clients.

DatologyAI

Series A in 2024
DatologyAI is an AI-data curation startup that specializes in developing deep learning tools for automatic selection in data training. The company focuses on automating the creation of datasets by identifying the most relevant information based on the specific requirements of AI models. Its innovative tools are designed to detect and eliminate redundant, noisy, or harmful data points through modality-agnostic algorithms, applicable across various formats without the need for labels. Additionally, DatologyAI’s solutions can enhance existing datasets by suggesting ways to augment information and optimize its organization for model training. These capabilities allow clients across multiple sectors to train their models more efficiently and cost-effectively.

Physical Intelligence

Seed Round in 2024
Physical Intelligence is a technology company specializing in integrating artificial intelligence with robotics and physical devices. It develops foundational models and learning algorithms to enable robots and other physical devices to perform a wide range of tasks across various industries.

DatologyAI

Seed Round in 2024
DatologyAI is an AI-data curation startup that specializes in developing deep learning tools for automatic selection in data training. The company focuses on automating the creation of datasets by identifying the most relevant information based on the specific requirements of AI models. Its innovative tools are designed to detect and eliminate redundant, noisy, or harmful data points through modality-agnostic algorithms, applicable across various formats without the need for labels. Additionally, DatologyAI’s solutions can enhance existing datasets by suggesting ways to augment information and optimize its organization for model training. These capabilities allow clients across multiple sectors to train their models more efficiently and cost-effectively.

MatX

Funding Round in 2023
MatX is a company that designs and manufactures computer chips. Its focus is on developing a high-performance computing platform tailored for artificial general intelligence (AGI). MatX's expertise lies in advanced hardware design, optimizing solutions for large language models, graphics processing units, and various machine learning frameworks. The company aims to empower developers and programmers to create AI applications that are faster, more efficient, and cost-effective.

Emancro Robotics Corp.

Seed Round in 2023
Emancro’s mission is to build general-purpose hospital logistics robots that perform a wide variety of tasks such as organizing and distributing medication and medical supplies within hospitals. In this way, robots are freeing up medical staff’s time and enable better and more resilient patient care. We are building EASO 1.0, the world's first mobile robot for restocking medication cabinets, and assembling medication trays in hospitals, which is a very labor intensive and error-prone task that many hospitals urgently want to automate.

Reflex

Seed Round in 2023
Reflex is a developer of an open-source, full-stack Python framework designed to simplify the process of building and deploying web applications. The platform combines the accessibility of low-code frameworks with the flexibility and performance of traditional web development, catering to data scientists and software engineers. This allows users to create high-quality web applications efficiently, without the need for extensive knowledge in web development. Reflex aims to enhance productivity by enabling rapid project design and deployment.

Bluesky

Seed Round in 2023
Bluesky is a social media network that enables users to engage with communities and express creativity. The platform allows users to customize their feeds and provides moderation tools for content management. It focuses on user control over the social media experience.

Kindred

Series A in 2023
Kindred is a unique travel company focused on creating a trusted network for exchanging homes. Unlike traditional vacation rental platforms, Kindred operates as a members-only network where participants must host their own homes to remain guests. This model fosters a higher level of trust among members, who are peers looking to travel more frequently rather than professional hosts renting investment properties. By eliminating cash exchanges between guests and hosts, Kindred enables its members to enjoy a travel-rich lifestyle at a significantly lower cost compared to hotels or traditional vacation rentals.

Meliora Therapeutics

Seed Round in 2022
Meliora Therapeutics is a biotech startup focused on developing innovative cancer therapies by leveraging a machine learning-driven platform. The company aims to identify the true mechanisms of action (MOA) of oncology medications through its proprietary prediction atlas, which maps drug mechanisms. This approach streamlines the drug development process by eliminating a significant and costly phase, thereby allowing researchers to advance their work more efficiently. By focusing on the precise actions of molecules of interest, Meliora Therapeutics seeks to enhance the effectiveness of cancer treatments and contribute to life-saving medical advancements in oncology.

Dynamo AI

Seed Round in 2022
DynamoFL empowers enterprises to deploy Gen AI solutions in a safe, private, and compliant manner. Our tools offer a scalable and efficient solution for defense against adversarial AI threats, ensuring the integrity and security of ML models throughout their lifecycle. Our suite of proactive AI model defense solutions can be deployed to both identify and remediate security and robustness risks in Generative AI systems. We enable organizations to deploy state-of-the-art LLMs on substantially cheaper hardware, even including CPU resources.

Charge Robotics

Seed Round in 2022
Charge Robotics is a robotics company that specializes in automating labor-intensive tasks associated with solar construction. The company has developed a robotic device aimed at enhancing the mass production of solar farms. By addressing labor bottlenecks, Charge Robotics' technology minimizes the need for human intervention in solar community production, thereby streamlining the construction process. This innovation enables construction firms to efficiently meet the increasing demand for solar energy, facilitating a transition to renewable energy solutions.

Kindred

Seed Round in 2022
Kindred is a unique travel company focused on creating a trusted network for exchanging homes. Unlike traditional vacation rental platforms, Kindred operates as a members-only network where participants must host their own homes to remain guests. This model fosters a higher level of trust among members, who are peers looking to travel more frequently rather than professional hosts renting investment properties. By eliminating cash exchanges between guests and hosts, Kindred enables its members to enjoy a travel-rich lifestyle at a significantly lower cost compared to hotels or traditional vacation rentals.

SimpleHash

Pre Seed Round in 2022
SimpleHash is a technology company that specializes in providing a comprehensive API and developer tools for web3 developers, enabling them to efficiently query and access NFT data from multiple blockchains. The platform offers functionalities to retrieve NFT metadata, media, and transaction history, which includes sales, listings, and floor prices. By leveraging blockchain technology, SimpleHash simplifies the often complex processes associated with NFT indexing and querying. Their rapid media content delivery network can be seamlessly integrated into applications, allowing developers to access essential infrastructure with minimal coding effort. This service is designed to enhance the capabilities of developers working within the NFT space, facilitating easier access to critical information and media related to non-fungible tokens.

Tinycare

Series A in 2021
Tinycare is a network of modern, micro daycare centers focused on serving infants, toddlers, and preschoolers in San Francisco. Founded in 2018 by Michael Lai, the company aims to provide the safest and cleanest licensed daycare environments while offering high-quality early childhood education. Tinycare employs a progressive approach to learning, ensuring that each child has the opportunity to reach their full potential. This commitment not only supports child development but also provides parents with peace of mind regarding their children's care.

Candor

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Candor helps employees of public companies manage their employee equity.

Motif

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Motif is a developer of application development platforms. They offer services for platform-enabled decision support tools, instant online distribution, and extension-based software construction, allowing users to focus more on their ideas and more easily build applications.

Orbillion Bio

Seed Round in 2021
Orbillion Bio, Inc. is a food-tech company based in Fremont, California, focused on developing cultured meat products derived from heritage cattle breeds. Founded in 2019, the company utilizes small tissue samples from high-quality heritage animals to produce premium cell-based meat products. Orbillion Bio aims to harness the potential of cell-cultured meat to provide delicious and nutritious food that is sustainable and accessible. By sourcing heritage cell lines directly from farmers, the company emphasizes a commitment to quality and sustainability in its production processes.

Catena Biosciences

Catena Biosciences is a biotechnology firm focused on advancing protein conjugation technology to address autoimmune disorders and other medical challenges. The company specializes in a method that facilitates the rapid and selective attachment of proteins, utilizing natural amino acids such as tyrosine and cysteine. This innovative approach allows researchers to develop novel therapeutics across various fields, including autoimmune disorders, oncology, and vaccine development. By streamlining the process of building biologic structures, Catena Biosciences aims to enhance medical research and contribute to the creation of effective treatments.
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