Outliers Fund

outliers.fund

Outliers began as a Special Interest Group (SIG) for SciFi-inspired research at MIT. We imagineered science fiction into scientific prototypes and published scientific papers as a student-run research community. Twenty students syndicated $2 million and elected Poseidon as a GP for Outliers Fund I. We read over 880 papers, tokenomics, and smart contracts, advised over 160 startups, invested in, and exited 32 deals (16.2x from 2016 to 2018). With this research foundation and venture experience, we founded Outliers Lab #1 to incubate nine startups with over $100 million raised, two filing IPOs, invested in, and exited six deals as Outliers Fund II (11.2x from 2018 to 2021). We raised $20 million for Outliers Fund III, structured $20 million ecosystem funds with XYO, Conflux, and Cipholio, and deployed Fund III on Ethereum via Syndicate. We are shipping the fund terms and operations on smart contracts. We are incorporating security, governance, and non-fungible tokens and recruiting 99 researchers, founders, and investors as founding members to OutliersDAO, a collective intelligence and community-driven venture DAO.