Outset Capital

Activity from announced rounds

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Outset Capital backs founders building AI, developer tools, robotics and technology for the future of work.

Investment approach

Led by Ali Rohde, Kanjun Qiu and Josh Albrecht, the firm describes itself as AI practitioners and builders investing early. It typically participates with smaller checks and offers operating support to founders.

Activity recorded by RoundOS

RoundOS records SiteVue’s industrial computer vision, Harper’s insurance brokerage, StarSling’s CI tools and Wafer’s AI inference infrastructure. These are examples of recorded financing across software infrastructure and applied AI.

Sources
Rounds participated in
4
Confirmed lead rounds
0
2 roles undisclosed
New companies
4
First participation on record · 0 follow-on
Funding in participating rounds
$94.3M
3 disclosed · full round size, not this investor’s share

By stage

Pre-seed1
Seed1
Series A1
Undisclosed1

By primary sector

Developer tools1
Fintech1
Hardware1
Industrial tech1

By country

United States4

Rounds

4 in this selection
StarSling

Fast GitHub Actions runners paired with AI agents that optimize continuous integration workflows.

UndisclosedPre-Seed
Participant
Wafer

Wafer runs AI inference infrastructure that adapts a model-serving stack to each customer's workload. It benchmarks and tunes models, engines, kernels and available hardware together, then keeps optimizing live serving for latency, reliability and cost as traffic changes.

$40MSeries A
Participant
SiteVue AI

Makes AI-powered cameras analyzing manufacturing lines for defects and safety

$7.5MSeed
Role not disclosed
Harper

AI-native commercial insurance brokerage matching small businesses with carriers for coverage

$46.8MSeed+Series A
Role not disclosed