Outset Ventures
outset.ventures Direct + LP
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 both directly in companies and in funds as a limited partner, 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 + LP
- 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.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 10 co-investors found.
- 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
- 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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