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    Outset Capital

    San Francisco, California, United StatesFounded 2022

    Outset Capital is a pre-seed and seed-stage venture capital firm based in San Francisco, led by AI practitioners and YC founders. The $10M fund backs technical founders building in AI, deeptech, and the future of work, writing small checks alongside top-tier lead investors.

    They made 1 investment in the last 12 months. Their most common stage is seed (69% of deals). Average disclosed round size is $14.3M (across 10 rounds with reported amounts).

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    Portfolio

    12

    Fund Size

    $10M

    Top Stage

    Seed

    Last 12 Mo

    1

    Team

    Ali Rohde

    Ali Rohde

    Managing Partner, Outset Capital

    Josh Albrecht

    Josh Albrecht

    General Partner, Outset Capital

    Kanjun Qiu

    Kanjun Qiu

    General Partner, Outset Capital

    Portfolio Breakdown

    Stage Distribution

    Sector Distribution

    Investment Activity

    DealsAvg Round Size

    Portfolio

    13 investments
    CompanyRoundAmountDate
    Harper Insure logoHarper InsureSeries A$46.8MFeb 2026
    Reflex logoReflexSeed$5MAug 2023
    Kindred logoKindredSeries A$15MApr 2023
    Aspiring Materials logoAspiring MaterialsSeed$1MOct 2021
    ORBILLION logoORBILLIONSeed$5MApr 2021
    RRespiraqUnknown$1.5MJan 2021
    Heart logoHeartSeed$2.5MJan 2021
    SiteVue logoSiteVueSeed$7.5M—
    Atomic Tessellator logoAtomic TessellatorSeed$11.3M—
    Zincovery logoZincoverySeed——
    OOpenStar TechnologiesSeed——
    Browserbase logoBrowserbaseSeries A——
    Harper Insure logoHarper InsureSeed$47M—

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    Last updated: 20 October 2026