Outliers Fund

Outliers Fund

Backing Scientist-led Ventures Through Scientific Research & Collective Intelligence.

Venture CapitalPalo Alto, United Statesoutliers-fund
Open to pitchesLeads rounds

About

Outliers was started as a MIT special interest group on SciFi-inspired research. In 2016, 20 students & professors syndicated $2M for investing in token-based projects, known as the Outliers Fund I (OFI). We collectively read 880 white papers, tokenomics, smart contracts, worked with 160 founders and invested in 32 of them. In 2018, we exited OFI at 16.2 MOIC and distributed 13.16 DPI to all the LPs. We did it again for Outliers Fund II (OFII) at 11.23 MOIC and distributed 9.71 DPI to all the LPs.

We just completed deploying $33M for Outliers Fund III (OFIII), and OFIII has entered into its Growth & Exit Period (2025-2028). Starting 2025, we have launched two new venture funds: Outliers Scientific Fund (OSF) focusing on Space Technology and Outliers Intelligence Fund (OIF) focusing on Computing.

AI & DataSaaS & SoftwareVenture Capital & Private Equity

Investment criteria

  1. Pre-seed

    Invests

  2. Seed

    Invests

  3. Series A

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  4. Series B

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  5. Growth

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Sectors
AI & DataSaaS & SoftwareVenture Capital & Private Equity
Geographies
United States
Round role
Leads and co-leads rounds

Highlights

Highlights coming soon

Notable work and milestones will show up here.