Outset Ventures
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Outset Ventures is a New Zealand-based deep tech venture fund and incubator. It provides laboratory space, funding, and community support to early-stage deep tech companies, and also offers an opportunity fund for investors to participate in later-stage rounds.
Outset Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand. It invests directly in companies, from seed to Series B, in deep tech, resource recovery, circular economy and energy. 27 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We back IP-rich companies solving globally significant problems, with scalable technologies and strong founding teams”
— Outset Ventures, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- Auckland, New Zealand
- Invests in
- New Zealand
- Sectors
- deep tech, resource recovery, circular economy, energy, advanced manufacturing, autonomy, sovereign capability, industrial technologies
- Portfolio
- 27 companies
Team, as Outset Ventures publishes it
- Mat Rowe Founder
- Sir Peter Beck Investment Committee Member
- Dr Sean Simpson Investment Committee Member
- Dr Will Barker Investment Committee Member
Names and roles exactly as listed on outset.ventures. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 10 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- Blackbird Ventures 3 shared companies: aquila.earth, energybank.nz, kwetta.com
- Movac 3 shared companies: wearebasis.com, respiraq.com, wellumio.com
- Pacific Channel 2 shared companies: aquila.earth, wellumio.com
- Aera VC 1 shared company: aquila.earth
- Cento Ventures 1 shared company: aquila.earth
- Virescent Ventures 1 shared company: kwetta.com
- Crane Venture Partners 1 shared company: atomictessellator.com
- In-Q-Tel 1 shared company: atomictessellator.com
- Global Brain 1 shared company: zenno.space
- Savia Ventures, LLC 1 shared company: nutritionfromwater.com
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Outset Ventures publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://outset.ventures/name, is_investor, type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, description, status, confidence, people, layer
- https://outset.ventures/investorslayer, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, people
- https://outset.ventures/portfolioportfolio_count
- https://outset.ventures/teampeople
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