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Outlier Ventures
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Outlier Ventures invests under its 'Triple A thesis' of AI, Atoms & Association, believing the global order is fragmenting and the premium on sovereignty is rising across financial, cognitive, energy, biological, manufacturing, associative and orbital dimensions — a combined $275T market opportunity by 2036. The firm is the world's most active Web3 accelerator and venture platform, backing founders building the infrastructure for the Post Web: a convergence of decentralization, AI, identity, and machine-to-machine coordination. Having built a portfolio of 400+ companies over 11 years, Outlier is now shifting from volume-based pre-seed/seed acceleration toward higher-conviction, later-stage (late seed to pre-launch) investments in agentic systems, with a focus on category leaders in DeAI, DePIN, DeFi, and RWA, augmented by a liquid token fund.
Notable quotes
“Our function over the last 11+ years in crypto has been research led investment and market curation at first as a venture studio, infra incubator and for the last 6 years as an accelerator. Now the market needs us to go later stage, and liquid, to help categories form based on fundamental analysis.”
“The Internet will be less about finance and more about enabling a machine to machine economy.”
“I try to solve for the machine, machine-to-machine economy, working with teams like Fetch.ai, trying to build out infrastructure that can support agents at scale.”
Team
Aron van Ammers
Founding Partner
Rumi Morales
Partner
Stephan Apel
Managing Partner
Tim Rule
Director & Investment Committee Member
Walther Doernte
Director & Investment Committee Member
Recent investments
| Company | Round | Size | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kaisar Network | Pre-Seed | — | 2026-04-29 |
| Unicity Labs | Seed | $3m | 2026-02-16 |
| Gaia | Seed | — | 2025-11-11 |
| Astra Nova | Seed | — | 2025-10-17 |
| Fetch.ai | Seed | — | 2018-03-01 |
| Ocean Protocol | Seed | — | 2017-12-20 |
| Brave Browser | Seed | — | — |
| IOTA | Seed | — | — |
| DIA Data | Seed | — | — |
| Boson Protocol | Seed | — | — |
Frequent co-investors
| VC firm | Deals together |
|---|---|
| Protocol Labs | 6 |
| Borderless Capital | 4 |
| Blockchange Ventures | 3 |
| Animoca Brands | 3 |
| NGC Ventures | 2 |
| Delta Blockchain Fund | 2 |
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