2022: Deployed Fund III on Ethereum; Launched Outliers VC DAO & recruiting 99 founding members. 2021: Exited Fund II at $23M+ (11.2x); Raised $20M for Fund III; Structured $20M ecosystem funds. 2020: 1 startup acquired, 2 startups filing IPO; Asia offices set up in Shanghai/Singapore. 2019: Brought Lab #1 startups to 12 cities for roadshows (Asia, UAE, US) with $100M+ raised collectively. 2018: Exited Fund I at $32M+ (16.2x), launched Lab #1 with 9 startups and invested in 6 with Fund II. 2017: Collectively read 880+ papers, tokenomics, smart contracts and invested in 32 deals with Fund I. 2016: Syndicated $2M as Fund I from 20 student LPs at MIT as a student-run research community. Fund III: Analog (lead), Sumeria Labs (lead), Ohmni Labs (lead), Syndicate, XREX, Dmail, DeSyn Protocol. Fund II: Harmony, Quantstamp, Kambria, XYO Network, Ultra, Ampleforth. Fund I: Binance, Cardano, Zilliqa, Qtum, Tezos, Dragonchain.
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Poseidon Ho will be speaking at ABS2024 | Asia Blockchain Summit in Taipei on 8/6-8 alongside some world-class founders, venture capitalists, and poker players. Feel free to use "POSEIDON" as promo code to register for the conference!
Meet Poseidon Ho at #ABS2024 ⿻ Poseidon Ho started Outliers as a special interest group on SciFi-inspired research at MIT and Outliers Fund as an early-stage venture fund to back scientist-led ventures with scientific research and collective intelligence.
3/30 Fireside chat between Poseidon Ho (Outliers Fund) & Devin Finzer (OpenSea) about his entrepreneurial stories and learnings:
3/30 NFT panel with Outliers Fund portfolio founders David Tseng Lootex + James GILOO Group Limited + Joshua Owen Indexer.xyz about the Next Generation of Innovative NFTs, moderated by Poseidon Ho.
Recap video of Outliers Fund OpenSea Taiwan Meetup
3/30 Outliers OpenSea Taiwan Meetup Welcome Devin Finzer, co-founder & CEO of OpenSea, and his wife Yu-Chi Kuo to Taiwan! We will host a fireside chat with Devin to learn some of his tech founder stories including successes and challenges navigating the ups and downs of the crypto market cycles, fundraising, and predictions for the future of the NFT market. Three Outliers Fund backed portfolio founders David Tseng (Lootex), James Teng (GILOO Group Limited), Joshua Owen (Indexer.xyz) will be sharing about gaming NFTs, entertainment NFTs, indexing NFTs across different blockchains and marketplaces. We can host another 1-2 NFT artists/builders on stage. Feel free to reach out if you have great candidates! We can host up to 150 attendees. RSVP https://lnkd.in/gTVvddBc and see you in Taipei on Saturday!
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Thrilled to share a milestone achievement for Analog! 🌟 We've successfully raised $16 million in a funding round led by Tribe Capital, valuing us at an impressive $120 million FDV. This marks a significant step forward in our journey to pioneer cross-chain communication in the blockchain space. Our vision at Analog is to create a seamless, interoperable blockchain ecosystem, and this funding will propel us toward realizing that vision. After being incubated by Binance, and with the support of leading investors like NGC Ventures, Wintermute, GSR, NEAR Foundation, Outliers Fund , Token Metrics, Ocular Fund, Orange DAO, Balaji Srinivasan, DWF Labs, Presto, DeSpread, Joeri van Geelen, NxGen Sahil Bloom, Shaan Puri, XYO, Alumni Ventures, Samara Asset Group, gmjp, Joichi Ito, Contango Digital Assets, Vansa Chatikavanij, Tim O'Regan, Kyle Chasse, Master Ventures, Global Coin Research, Arthur Zubkoff, Alpha Praetorian Capital, Varys Capital, Mentha Partners, Better Capital, Andromeda Capital, Tyler Knight, Wing Vasiksiri, Jeff Kirdeikis, Sublime Ventures, Exnetwork Capital, Akshat Vaidya (Head of Investments, Maelstrom Fund), Kei Oda (Quantstamp), Black Label Media (Producers behind Sicario, La La Land), and dozens of others, we're poised to redefine how blockchains communicate and collaborate. We're not just building technology; we're crafting the infrastructure that will enable developers to innovate without boundaries, thanks to our core products like Timechain, Analog Watch, General Message Passing (GMP) and Timegraph SDK. Our approach is developer-focused, ensuring we provide a comprehensive toolkit for cross-chain development. With our public testnet and mainnet on the horizon, the future looks bright for Analog. We're expanding our talented team to fuel our growth and innovation. Here's to building the future of blockchain interoperability, together.
Proud to be lead investor of GILOO Group Limited, whose 《金門Island In Between》 got nominated for the Documentary Short category of the 69th Oscars Academy Award. Giloo is raising its Seed extension round. Let us know if you’re interested: hello@outliers.fund
As lead investor of Analog 1st and 2nd rounds, we’re proud to share that Analog just closed $16M from its $120M FDV round led by Tribe Capital. Analog is a blockchain interoperability project, often compared with Axelar Network and LayerZero Labs in the cross-chain space. Analog will be raising its Series A at $250-500M FDV soon!
Evan Cheng (Sui Foundation / Mysten Labs) at 73rd Outliers Partners Meeting:
Benny Giang (ERC-6551 by FUTURE PRIMITIVE) at 73rd Outliers Partners Meeting: