Outward VC
VC Fund
London, United Kingdom
Outward VC is a VC fund in London focused on Financial Services and FinTech. Outward VC empower start-ups seeking to be the most important fintech companies in the world
- Total investments:
- 53
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 42%
- Fund size:
- $80M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Outward VC invests in
Stages Outward VC invests in
Countries Outward VC invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 7 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $1.8M–$5.7M
- Series A
- $6.2M–$18M
- Series B
- $45M–$80M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Financial Services 18 (34%)
- FinTech 14 (26%)
- Artificial Intelligence 9 (17%)
- Finance 5 (9%)
- Real Estate 5 (9%)
Stage
- Seed 24 (45%)
- Series A 10 (19%)
- Series B 6 (11%)
- Pre-Seed 5 (9%)
- Series C 2 (4%)
Country
- United Kingdom 29 (55%)
- Denmark 2 (4%)
- United States 1 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Andi Kazeroonian
Principal
|
Principal | Total investments: 9 | Find email | |
Devin Kohli
Co-Founder & General Partner
|
Co-Founder & General Partner | Total investments: 5 | Find email | |
Sanchit Dhote
Principal
|
Principal | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
D'Arcy Whelan
Head of Platform
|
Head of Platform | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Kevin Chong
Co-Founder & General Partner
|
Co-Founder & General Partner | Total investments: 15 | Find email | |
| See all 7 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quartz provides a personal wealth platform that aggregates financial accounts and offers personalized financial insights. | $3.7M / Pre-Seed / Sep 16, 2026 | ||
| LeoTrace provides cybersecurity software and services focused on securing AI-generated and human-written code. The company offers the LeoTrace Platform, a security decision and governance layer that enforces security reasoning at the point of code creation and records an auditable history of engineering and design decisions before deployment. It isintended for software and security teams that use AI agents and developers to produce code and need traceable security decisions across their pipelines. In addition to its platform, LeoTrace delivers penetration testing and security assessment services covering web and mobile applications, cloud environments, APIs, networks, desktop software, and AI and large language model integrations. The company also supports exposure management, workflow automation, reporting, and analytics for managing vulnerabilities and remediation. Through its community content and instructional programs, LeoTrace helps security practitioners and developers practice real-world code review and sharpen offensive and defensive skills. | $2M / Pre-Seed / Sep 11, 2026 | ||
| Capsa AI helps private equity firms to take data-driven investment decisions using AI to transform due diligence process. | $18M / Series A / Jun 09, 2026 | ||
| Infrawatch is a London-based cybersecurity startup that helps track and analyze internet infrastructure to uncover phishing, fraud, and other cyber threats. | $3M / Pre-Seed / May 20, 2026 | ||
| Firenze aims to expand financial services by extending investment-backed lending to a wider audience, recognizing its importance in wealth creation and preservation. The founding team aims to democratize Lombard lending, making it accessible to all, while focusing on mass affluent clients. | $8.1M / Series A / Apr 21, 2026 | ||
| Steward.ai is a VC-backed fintech startup specializing in AI-powered compliance for investor onboarding, AML, and KYC processes. | $5M / Seed / Mar 17, 2026 | ||
| Orbital Witness is a LegalTech-meets-PropTech company developing a legal risk rating for real estate - a cheaper, faster and reliable alternative to the legacy, costly and time consuming legal due diligence process in property transactions. | $60M / Series B / Jan 26, 2026 | ||
| Monq is an AI-powered procurement negotiation platform for enterprises. | $3M / Pre-Seed / Nov 26, 2025 | ||
| Financial promotion compliance, in seconds. Scale your marketing operations while reducing risk.Marketing teams need instant approvals while compliance teams drown in manual reviews. The result? Missed opportunities, increased risk, and frustrated teams on both sides. There's a better way to manage financial promotions.Adclear ensurescreative marketing is compliant with FCA regulations, whilst providing an in-depth audit trail for compliance teams. Our AI-powered platform turns days of work into seconds.Instant approvals. Real-time marketing. Zero bottlenecks. Adclear empowers your team to move fast and stay compliant. | $2.8M / Seed / Nov 13, 2025 | ||
| Developer of an AI-powered document intelligence platform designed to extract deep forensic insights and detect sophisticated fraud. The company’s software leverages advanced machine learning to scrutinise images and PDFs, uncovering hidden anomalies, metadata mismatches, and structural discrepancies that escape traditional verification methods. Bytransforming complex document forensics into actionable risk intelligence, the platform enables global enterprises to automate compliance and protect operational integrity in seconds. | $1.4M / Seed / Sep 23, 2025 | ||
| See all 53 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Outward VC invest in?
Outward VC invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 53 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Outward VC's check size?
Outward VC typically joins rounds of $1.8M–$5.7M at Seed, $6.2M–$18M at Series A and $45M–$80M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Outward VC participates in.
How do I contact Outward VC?
Public channels for Outward VC include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.
Who are the partners at Outward VC?
The team at Outward VC includes Andi Kazeroonian (Principal), Devin Kohli (Co-Founder & General Partner) and Sanchit Dhote (Principal), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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