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 specializes in AI-driven data curation. It develops deep learning tools to automate dataset creation and improve model training efficiency. Its tools identify optimal data for AI models, suggest dataset augmentation strategies, and optimize batching or splitting processes.

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 specializes in AI-driven data curation. It develops deep learning tools to automate dataset creation and improve model training efficiency. Its tools identify optimal data for AI models, suggest dataset augmentation strategies, and optimize batching or splitting processes.

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 an exclusive network facilitating non-cash home swapping among its members. Each member must host their own property to participate, fostering trust and reciprocity.

Meliora Therapeutics

Seed Round in 2022
Meliora Therapeutics is a biotechnology company that develops a machine learning-driven platform to identify the true mechanisms of action of oncology medications and to support the development of life-saving cancer therapies. By integrating biology, chemistry, and data science, it enables pharmaceutical companies and research institutions to efficiently advance innovative treatments and improve the likelihood of successful clinical outcomes.

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 specializes in developing robotic solutions for solar farm construction. Their primary product is a robotic device designed to automate labor-intensive tasks, reducing human interaction and enabling construction companies to meet the increasing demand for solar power.

Kindred

Seed Round in 2022
Kindred is an exclusive network facilitating non-cash home swapping among its members. Each member must host their own property to participate, fostering trust and reciprocity.

SimpleHash

Pre Seed Round in 2022
SimpleHash develops a SaaS-based platform offering real-time multi-chain data access for tokens and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Its platform provides comprehensive insights including prices, metadata, media, sales, listings, bids, and automatic metadata refreshing, enabling efficient management and integration of token and NFT data across various blockchain networks.

Tinycare

Series A in 2021
Founded in 2018 by Michael Lai, Tinycare operates modern, micro daycare centers serving infants, toddlers, and preschoolers in San Francisco. It aims to provide safe, clean, high-quality care with a progressive learning approach.

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 specializes in biotechnology, offering protein conjugation services for building biological structures and facilitating medical research. Its proprietary technology enables the attachment of proteins with high selectivity, supporting innovation in autoimmune disorders, oncology, and vaccine development.
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