Outlier Ventures
VC Fund
London, United Kingdom
Outlier Ventures is a VC fund in London focused on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. Established in 2014, Outlier Ventures is one of the first VC firms dedicated to investing in the emerging crypto ecosystem. Since launching its Base Camp accelerator in 2019, Outlier Ventures has received over 5,000 applications for its highly sought after virtual accelerator and has helped raise over $350 million in seed funding for its growingportfolio of 220+ high-profile projects from across the world, such as Crucible and Biconomy.In addition, Outlier Ventures has supported the launch and growth of several billion-dollar crypto economies including Fetch.ai, Boson Protocol, Secret Network, Blox Move, Swash and DIA Data. Their portfolio includes notable projects across DeFi, NFTs and blockchain infrastructure with a focus on emergent Metaverse use cases such as NFT-based digital couture fashion brands, avatar marketplaces, decentralized music publishing platforms, play-to-earn games, augmented reality social positioning protocols, and more.Outlier Ventures has expanded its Base Camp program to partner with leading protocols such as Aptos, Filecoin / IPFS, Polygon, and Polkadot along with FARFETCH, to host dedicated accelerator programs for these Web3 ecosystems along with Ascent, Outlier Ventures’ advisory offering targeted at later stage teams. Through its blockchain agnostic approach, Outlier Ventures has achieved record growth, doubled its cohort intake year after year, and is on target to accelerate well over 100 startups in 2022, making it one of the most active investors in the space by deal volume and the most active Web3 accelerator globally and top 3 crypto investor globally by volume of investment.Since its inception, Outlier Ventures has always viewed its portfolio as an open stack of technologies that contribute to a new web paradigm, referred to as Web3, based on principles that prioritize the sovereignty of the user, their data and digital wealth, over platform and shareholder supremacy. In January of 2021, Outlier Ventures published its thesis on the imminent arrival of the Metaverse, outlining how Web3 would serve as an operating system for an Open Metaverse.
- Total investments:
- 498
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 17%
- Last fund:
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Industries Outlier Ventures invests in
Stages Outlier Ventures invests in
Countries Outlier Ventures invests in
Contacts
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Fabio Maffioli
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Matt Law
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Rumi Morales
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Ana-Maria Yanakieva
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Aron van Ammers
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Blockchain 196 (39%)
- Cryptocurrency 152 (31%)
- Software 67 (13%)
- Web3 61 (12%)
- Information Technology 48 (10%)
Stage
- Pre-Seed 254 (51%)
- Seed 156 (31%)
- Funding Round 19 (4%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 10 (2%)
- Series A 8 (2%)
Country
- United States 71 (14%)
- United Kingdom 57 (11%)
- Switzerland 20 (4%)
- Singapore 16 (3%)
- Canada 10 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Fabio Maffioli
Head of Base Camp Accelerators
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Head of Base Camp Accelerators | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
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Matt Law
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 10 | Find email | |
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Rumi Morales
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
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Ana-Maria Yanakieva
Investment Manager
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Investment Manager | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Aron van Ammers
Founding Partner & CTO
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Founding Partner & CTO | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 17 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Unicity Labs
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Unicity Labs is constructing the Framework for the self-governing economy. In order to conduct billions of transactions every day, AI agents require infrastructure that allows them to find services, validate counterparties, | $3M / Seed / Feb 18, 2026 | |
Gacha Galaxy
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Gacha Galaxy is a Web3 discovery platform that surfaces high-signal projects using data-driven market intelligence. It aggregates on-chain activity, market movements, and curated sentiment/community inputs to help users identify meaningful trends beyond vanity metrics. | $3M / Seed / Feb 09, 2026 | |
Nexton Solutions
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Nexton Solutions is an AI-native re-staking and arbitrage execution protocol in the cryptocurrency industry, focused on automation of cross-chain yield creation through a unified AI execution layer. | $4M / Seed / Nov 27, 2025 | |
Hotstuff Labs
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Hotstuff Labs is a technology company building financial infrastructure for internet. | $1K / Seed / Nov 25, 2025 | |
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Hotstuff Labs
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Hotstuff Labs is a technology company building financial infrastructure for internet. | $1K / Seed / Nov 25, 2025 | |
Me3
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Me3 is a crypto wallet to purchase, send, receive, and exchange tokens and NFTs. | $3M / Seed / Oct 24, 2025 | |
Depinsim
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DepinSim is a blockchain-based eSIM platform that lets users access global mobile data and earn rewards. | $8M / Seed / Oct 24, 2025 | |
Astra Nova
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Astra Nova is a Web3 RPG that throws players into the center of an inter-dimensional conflict between godlike avatars of Chaos and Order.In our dynamic, story-driven 3rd Person Action Adventure, players explore the mysteries of their new home planet, battle to unite warring factions & rally their forces against the coming onslaught of TheAccretion.As the Final Envoy, players control their destinies, from designing their own custom character & choice of specialty skills to navigating a storyline full of twists and turns.Action Gameplay is enhanced by a unique Companion System allowing players to swap in either story-based MPCs or NFT-powered NPCs.Diplomatic Gameplay includes a Resource Management game mode further enhanced by our unique NFT-compatible Outpost System. | $41.6M / Venture - Series Unknown / Oct 17, 2025 | |
HackQuest
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Web3.0 programming for everyone. | $4.1M / Seed / Aug 09, 2025 | |
Bloom
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Bloom is creating the social layer for modern finance, transforming your performance into social content that others can discover, replicate, and learn from. | $1.6M / Pre-Seed / Jul 24, 2025 | |
| See all 498 investments → | |||
Co-Investors
Farfetch
21 deals together
Protocol Labs
16 deals together
Borderless Capital
13 deals together
Animoca Brands
12 deals together
Primal Capital
12 deals together
HBAR Foundation
10 deals together
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What does Outlier Ventures invest in?
Outlier Ventures invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Software startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 498 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The team at Outlier Ventures includes Fabio Maffioli (Head of Base Camp Accelerators), Matt Law (Partner) and Rumi Morales (Partner), among 17 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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