Outsiders Fund

Outsiders Fund is a venture capital firm that invests at seed and Series A stage in companies from industries others tend to ignore. Its thesis is that sectors with old infrastructure and entrenched incumbents lag behind wider technology, leaving room for new products. It looks for founders whose unusual backgrounds let them see those gaps.

What Outsiders Fund offers

• Seed investment: early capital for start-ups modernising overlooked sectors.
• Series A investment: follow-on backing as those companies grow.
• Sector theses: interests range from mail security, HVAC monitoring and cattle supply chains to distributed GPUs, electronic design automation and space bus manufacturing.

Who it works with

Founders from outside the industries they are changing. Portfolio companies described by the fund include:

• Tango, a workflow-capture tool for training and knowledge transfer
• Saturn Cloud, cloud-hosted CPUs and GPUs for data scientists
• Root AI, harvesting robots for farms
• Casana and Summus in health technology, and Perygee in network security

Key facts

• Stage: seed and Series A
• Sectors: overlooked, antiquated and long-standing industries