#OUTLIERS was originally a special interest group for SciFi-inspired research at MIT & Harvard. In the past 5 years, it evolved into a collective of Outliers Fellowship (0-1), Outliers Lab (1-10) and Outliers Fund (10-100) for scaling the impact of outliers, those who turn science fiction into scientific facts.
A COLLECTIVE OF JOINT
RESEARCH INITIATIVES & FUNDS
WITH TOP BLOCKCHAIN ECOSYSTEMS
A COLLECTIVE OF JOINT RESEARCH INITIATIVES & FUNDS WITH TOP BLOCKCHAIN ECOSYSTEMS
A Collective of Research-driven Funds and Labs
9
Founders
Accelerated
36
Ventures
Invested
+1,272
Average Fund
Returned
A Community of Builders, Venture Capitalists and Research Scientists
With our collective research foundation, venture experience, track records, some of us left from world-class research institutes to found our own ventures, and we turned this community into a venture fund/accelerator, backing the outliers that drive the future.
Stories from Our Founders & Partners
Partner
Joe Roets – Dragonchain
Dragonchain is a blockchain platform with interoperability, enabling developers to write smart contracts with either Javascript, Python or Go and deploy across different layer 1 protocols.
Founder
Nick White – Harmony
Harmony transcendes the blockchain trilemma with deep sharding, fast consensus, instant finality for cross-chain asset transfers on Ethereum, Binance, and 3 other chains.
Founder
Don Ho – Quantstamp
Quantstamp is a team of world-class security experts with 1,000+ research citations who protects over $100B digital asset risk with smart contract security audits for 200+ companies.
Partner
Benny Giang – Dapper Labs
Dapper Labs is the leader in blockchain gaming and NFT who created Flow (blockchain with usability), NBA Top Shot (#1 dApp) and CryptoKitties (#2 dApp).
Founder
Tingxi Tan – Kambria
Kambria is an ecosystem that accelerates open innovation for AI & Robotics by rewarding developer contributions in an open and decentralized fashion on the blockchain.
Founder
Arie Trouw – XYO Network
XYO builds scalable and incentivized location-based oracle networks for smart contracts to interact between the digital and physical realities.
Partner
Mayra Ceja – Republic
Republic is a leading platform democratizing private equity and token investing. Republic is a sister company of CoinList, AngelList and ProductHunt.
Founder
Aidan & Liam – Unum ID
Unum ID is a user-sovereign decentralized identity (DID) that provides passwordless authentication and sharified identity network.
Founder
Jacob Cole – IdeaFlow
IdeaFlow is an intelligence amplification company that connects people with matching puzzles. Jacob was advised by Sir Tim-Berners Lee at the MIT Decentralized Information Group.