Outliers Fund
VC Fund
Palo Alto, United States
Outliers Fund is a VC fund in Palo Alto focused on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. Outliers began as 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, advised160+ 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.
- Total investments:
- 32
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 34%
- Fund size:
- $20M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Outliers Fund invests in
Stages Outliers Fund invests in
Countries Outliers Fund invests in
Contacts
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Poseidon Ho
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Everest AN
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Lei Shi
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Matthew Harwit
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Blockchain 12 (38%)
- Cryptocurrency 11 (34%)
- Software 9 (28%)
- Information Technology 6 (19%)
- Bitcoin 5 (16%)
Stage
- Seed 12 (38%)
- Initial Coin Offering 5 (16%)
- Pre-Seed 4 (13%)
- Series A 3 (9%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (6%)
Country
- United States 15 (47%)
- Taiwan 2 (6%)
- Spain 1 (3%)
- Singapore 1 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Poseidon Ho
Founding Partner
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Founding Partner | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
Bryan Myint
Venture Partner
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Venture Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Everest AN
Analyst
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Analyst | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Lei Shi
PR & Marketing Director
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PR & Marketing Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Matthew Harwit
Investor Relations
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Investor Relations | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 8 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Paradromics
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Paradromics is building a high data-rate brain computer interface (BCI) to provide technology solutions for people with neurological and brain-related conditions. | $235K / Venture - Series Unknown / Dec 08, 2025 | |
Vast
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Vast designs and develops commercial space stations for long-duration human missions, including concepts that use artificial gravity. The company engineers pressurized modules, habitation systems, power and thermal control, and docking interfaces, and integrates crew transportation via partner launch providers. Programs include Haven-1 and a largermodular station architecture that supports microgravity research, in-space manufacturing, and private astronaut expeditions. VAST SPACE, LLC collaborates with SpaceX for Crew Dragon missions and works with government and industry under collaborative agreements. Capabilities span mission design, payload accommodation, and on-orbit operations to enable sustained human presence in low Earth orbit and beyond. | $150M / Series A / Oct 30, 2025 | |
Bitlight Labs
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Bitlight Labs builds infrastructure using the RGB protocol and the Bitcoin Lightning Network. | $9.6M / Seed / Sep 19, 2025 | |
SONEX
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SONEX is an AI-powered decentralized exchange (DEX) built on top of the Soneium ecosystem. It is dedicated to providing a secure, efficient, and user-friendly cryptocurrency trading experience. | $1M / Seed / Jan 21, 2025 | |
General Tensor
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General Tenser builds infrastructure for the Bittensor network. It operates mining and validating nodes on the network. The company develops subnet infrastructure and consumer DeFi applications. | Pre-Seed / Dec 01, 2024 | |
Cork Protocol
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Cork provides a decentralized finance (DeFi) technology that enables collateralized swaps against any pegged asset. | Seed / Sep 09, 2024 | |
AstroForge
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AstroForge is an asteroid mining company that extracts gold and other minerals from asteroid. Instead of bringing back the entire asteroid, break it up, refine it, and return only what’s valuable. | $42.5M / Series A / Aug 20, 2024 | |
Satoshi Protocol
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Satoshi Protocol is the first stablecoin on bitcoin. It intends to support DeFi and make BTC more usable by providing a CDP-style stablecoin. | $2M / Seed / May 01, 2024 | |
Analog
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Analog is the world’s first layer-0, Omni-chain platform that leverages proof-of-time (PoT) to validate time data (events). With PoT, all nodes have a fair chance of being selected to validate time data and participate in the consensus process on the Timechain (an ordered sequence of immutable verified time data). This contrasts with proof-of-work(PoW)-powered networks that require computationally-intensive resources to mine blocks or proof-of-stake (PoS)-enabled networks where nodes must stake enough coins. The Analog network is the first realistic attempt in helping the world to move from a “timeless mess” to a “time-driven” environment via PoT consensus. Besides solving the problem of verifiability of time data, the Analog network also prioritizes interoperability. It establishes a radically decentralized, secure, and trustless layer-0 where multiple networks like Bitcoin and Ethereum can anchor their transactions. Most importantly, the Analog Timegraph leverages zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) to create a validated pipeline of time data that businesses can privately leverage to power the next generation of time-dependent applications. Unlike other Blockchain application programming interface (API) models that involve the use of third-party oracles, Analog’s Timegraph API allows data providers to become their own oracles on the Timechain. This creates an entirely new marketplace of time data that is set to power the next generation of decentralized applications (DApps). | $16M / Seed / Feb 12, 2024 | |
Indexer.xyz
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Indexer.xyz is an developer platform providing a middleware for applications and blockchains to efficiently communicate with one another. Our goal is to accelerate Web3 adoption be helping developers go-to-market quicker with their products leveraging our API as the backend of their applications. | $2.3M / Seed / May 31, 2023 | |
| See all 32 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Outliers Fund invest in?
Outliers Fund invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Software startups, most often at Seed and Initial Coin Offering stage. Most of the 32 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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Who are the partners at Outliers Fund?
The team at Outliers Fund includes Poseidon Ho (Founding Partner), Bryan Myint (Venture Partner) and Everest AN (Analyst), among 8 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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