Outliers Fund

investment firm

About

Backing scientist-led ventures through scientific research and collective intelligence.

Details

Industries
Blockchain,Finance,Space Travel,Venture Capital
Founded date
Jan 1, 2017
Operating Status
Active
Legal Name
Hash Outliers, Inc.
Also Known As
OutliersDAO
Investor Type
Accelerate,Venture Capital

Outliers was originally a special interest group (SIG) for SciFi-inspired research at MIT. We imagineered science fiction into scientific prototypes and published scientific papers as a student-run research community.

20 students syndicated $2M and elected Poseidon as a GP for Outliers Fund I. We read 880+ papers, tokenomics, smart contracts, advised 160+ startups, invested and exited 32 deals (16.2x from 2016 to 2018)

With these research foundation and venture experience, we founded Outliers Lab #1 to incubate 9 startups with $100M+ raised, two filing IPO, invested and exited 6 deals as Outliers Fund II (11.2x from 2018 to 2021)

We raised $20M for Outliers Fund III, structured $20M ecosystem funds with XYO, Conflux, Cipholio and deployed Fund III on Ethereum via Syndicate and are shipping the fund terms / operations on smart contracts.

We are incorporating security / governance / non-fungible tokens and recruiting 99 researchers / founders / investors as founding members to OutliersDAO, a collective intelligence & community-driven venture DAO.

Funds Raised

Announced Date Fund Name Money Raised
Jan 1, 2022 Outliers Blockchain Fund III $20M
Oct 18, 2018 Outliers Blockchain Fund II $2.06M
Sep 1, 2016 Outliers Blockchain Fund I $2M

Investments

Number of Investments
Number of Lead Investments
18
6
Outliers Fund has made 18 investments. Their most recent investment was on Sep 30, 2022, when dPrism.ai raised 0.
Date Company Name
Round Money Raised Industry Lead Investor
Sep 30, 2022 dPrism.ai
Seed Yes
Aug 22, 2022 Analog
Seed Blockchain Yes
Apr 23, 2022 dPrism.ai
Pre-seed Yes
Apr 20, 2022 Unum ID
Seed $2M Blockchain Yes
Mar 31, 2022 Analog
Seed Blockchain Yes

Employee Profiles

Number of Employee Profiles
8
Outliers Fund has 8 current employee profiles, including Executive Poseidon Ho
Executive
Executive
Executive
Employee
Employee