# Outside VC

> Outside VC is a VC fund in Denver backing FinTech and Artificial Intelligence. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Denver, United States
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Nov 2025
- Lead investor: 8%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/outside-vc/
- Website: http://www.outside-vc.com

Outside VC is an investment firm.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2M–$9M |
| Pre-Seed | $500k–$1M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 5 | 42% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 42% |
| Software | 3 | 25% |
| Financial Services | 3 | 25% |
| SaaS | 2 | 17% |

21 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 7 | 58% |
| Seed | 5 | 42% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 9 | 75% |
| Mexico | 1 | 8% |
| Nigeria | 1 | 8% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Upwardli | Upwardli is a technology-based financial services agency that helps with credit services. It helps members build their credit and savings with personalized products designed to make smart financial moves. | $9M | Seed | Nov 07, 2025 |  |
| Benji | Benji is a modern API for loyalty programs. It helps businesses enhance conversion rates and profitability by providing clients with a new way to pay using rewards points. |  | Pre-Seed | Feb 27, 2025 |  |
| 11th.com | AI-driven platform for investors to claim compesation in securities fraud cases. | $2M | Seed | May 29, 2024 |  |
| Ampere | Ampere is the execution layer for manufacturers—automating workflows across finance and energy to recover cash, cut kWh, and optimize operations inside the tools you already use. | $890K | Pre-Seed | May 17, 2024 |  |
| PrettyData | PrettyData is the AI business partner for salons, boosting profits without the complexity of outdated booking or POS systems. |  | Pre-Seed | Mar 01, 2024 |  |
| Volteras | Volteras collects, standardizes, and optimizes data from hundreds of energy devices into a single data model. Volteras Connect enables businesses to use this data to produce new revenue streams, reduce costs, and create new business models. It aspires to be the link between electric vehicles and anything they may come into contact with, fromchargers and house batteries to energy suppliers and mapping software. | $2.9M | Seed | Oct 14, 2023 |  |
| Starlight | Starlight enables businesses to offer streamlined access to government benefits directly to their users and giving them financial support. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Aug 01, 2023 |  |
| Debbie | Points for the 99%. Get paid to pay off your debt and save. Debbie partners with mission-aligned financial institutions to acquire and engage young consumers by rewarding them for positive financial habits. | $735K | Pre-Seed | Jan 01, 2023 |  |
| Zumma | Zumma is building the financial operating system for companies in Latin America by creating AI agents and the infrastructure to automate financial workflows— starting with expense management and invoice automation. Zumma leverages and builds on top of the tools companies already use, like WhatsApp, their internal system of records and their ERPs.Each year, companies lose over 20% of revenue to inefficiencies and missed tax deductions caused by manual processes. Zumma helps them reclaim that time and money, powering finance teams. | $500K | Pre-Seed | Dec 08, 2022 |  |
| ORDA | Star Kitchens is a cloud-based restaurant operating system built for African chefs and food business owners. Star Kitchens ePos, integrations, and lending solutions enable Africa’s millions of food business owners to scale and grow their business. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria. | $3.4M | Seed | Nov 29, 2022 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Hustle Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hustle-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Hyde Park Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hyde-park-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Techstars](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/techstars) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Blank Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blank-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Gaingels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gaing) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [LoftyInc Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/loftyinc-capital-management) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Outside VC invest in?

Outside VC invests primarily in FinTech, Artificial Intelligence and Software startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Outside VC's check size?

Outside VC typically joins rounds of $2M–$9M at Seed and $500k–$1M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Outside VC participates in.

### When did Outside VC last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Outside VC closed in Nov 2025. Shizune tracks 12 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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