Thick Clients, Thin Servers aka Web3
We got excited about Bitcoin all those years ago and thought it might be possible to use the same technology for services beyond electronic cash. The vision (for some) is web services that bypass a network or database administrator (the Government, Central Banks, Facebook) and prevent any sort of censorship, blocking, or cancelling.
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Outlier Ventures reveals its top blockchain predictions for 2020
Over 11 years since the creation of Bitcoin, 2020 will be the year we follow the S-Curve of technology diffusion out of the period of Installation and into Deployment, where we see ‘synergy’ and ‘consolidation’ of the technology begin to take effect. Blockchain will finally grow up, with institutional money trickling into the market based […]
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Outlier Ventures Invests in Alkemi
Two seismic problems exist in finance. Within more traditional capital markets & banking, the market is encumbered by out-moded legacy infrastructure. Within the the more emergent digital assetization arena the markets are inefficient due to a lack of liquidity. So we are delighted to confirm, Outlier Ventures are the lead advisor and an investor […]
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Outlier Ventures announces strategic partnership with Enigma Protocol
Today we can announce we have made a significant investment in, and have become a strategic advisor to Enigma, a decentralised secure computation protocol. Partnering with the Outlier Ventures platform will enable Enigma to scale and diffuse their network at a new rate. The partnership will enable Enigma to join a family of world […]
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Outlier Ventures have been selected as a finalist at the Growth Investor Awards 2019
Outlier Ventures shortlisted as a finalist in the fifth annual Growth Investor Awards In the running among five other companies for the new Team of the Year award All finalists will be celebrated at a black-tie event on the 6th of November 2019 The Team of the Year recognises a team that has gone above […]
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Outlier Ventures wins ‘Hottest Blockchain Investor 2019’ at The Europas Awards
After an intense round of public voting and judge’s deliberations, the winners were announced on the 27th of June at The Europas Awards for European Tech Startups 2019 where Outlier Ventures won the award for Hottest Blockchain Investor. Outlier Ventures Business Development Manager Catherine Thomas alongside Managing Partner Stephan Apel accepted the award on behalf […]
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Outlier Ventures and list of global investors back $4 Million Raise for Agoric to enable secure JavaScript for blockchain-based smart contracts
Foundational distributed electronic markets development team close round to scale the team and build commercial solutions New York, NY (May 13, 2019) — Agoric today announced the successful completion of their latest investment round with an impressive array of global investors including gumi Cryptos Capital, Interchain Foundation (Cosmos), Kilowatt Capital, Lemniscap, MetaStable Capital, Outlier Ventures, […]
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Killing Crypto: Outlier Ventures’ 2019 Predictions
This time last year we predicted there needed to be a crypto winter, something we hoped to happen sooner rather than later. As painful as it has been for everyone we believe it was the medicine the industry needed to professionalise. There was too much hype with too little value in the public market, something we had been talking about since early 2017.
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Outlier Ventures joins major automakers, startups, technology companies and others to launch Mobility Open Blockchain Initiative (MOBI)
BMW, Bosch, Ford, General Motors, Renault, ZF, Accenture, Context Labs, IBM, and others participate as founding members New consortium explores how blockchain will reinvent mobility and address industry shifts [Dubai], May 2, 2018 at 12:00pm GMT — MOBI, the Mobility Open Blockchain Initiative, announces its formation to explore blockchain for use in a new digital […]
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Outlier Ventures joins the British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association
Welcoming Europe’s first blockchain VC signals the maturity of blockchain investment and distributed ledger technology Leading blockchain and Web 3.0 venture capital firm Outlier Ventures announces it has joined the British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association to actively engage with the British VC community on the emerging blockchain and distributed ledger industry. Outlier Ventures’ […]
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