Poseidon started Outliers Fund I, Fund II, Outliers Lab and now leads research and investment at Outliers Fund III. He dropped out from University of Washington and Tsinghua University to devote full-time on Outliers after turning $2M (from 20 students at MIT) into $32M+ in two years. Poseidon was known for his research on Ant-Inspired Collective Intelligence and Reality Computing at MIT Media Lab, San Diego Zoo Research and Microsoft Research. He received his B.S. Management Information Systems from National Taiwan University. Poseidon holds 4 research fellowships, 15 international design and programming awards.

David leads fundraising, investor relations and exit strategy at Outliers Fund III. David advised Poseidon on fundraising and investor relations when Poseidon was running Outliers Fund I; invested as a LP at Outliers Fund II; and invested his Fund II LP payout and became a GP in Outliers Fund III. Throughout David’s 27-year career in VC/PE investment, M&A, IPO, leverage buyout, he has completed 60+ cross-border transactions worth over $9B, including investing $500K in Alibaba as the first institutional investor in 1999. David received his MBA from Columbia University, B.S. Economics / Geology from National Taiwan University, and attended Executive Program from Tsinghua University in Beijing

TY leads investment in SEA and helps our portfolios build community, adopt users and fundraise in SEA. He ran the Outliers Lab incubation program with Poseidon & Samantha since 2018, supporting our startup founders on talent recruitment and HR planning. Prior to investing in and working at Outliers Fund, TY spent 10 years in the HR industry including founding a crypto recruitment company SeekOut and being the Head of Technology Recruitment in SEA of Hudson and Regional Manager of Technology Recruitment of The Adecco Group. TY received his B.A. Economics from National Tsing Hua University.

Lei leads PR, marketing and community at Outliers Fund. Prior to joining Outliers Fund, Lei helped Eat Just, Inc., a $1.2B food tech unicorn from Silicon Valley, set up their China office and led strategic partnerships and development for 4 years. Prior to Eat Just, Lei was an investment banking intern at Morgan Stanley, SoftBank China, Deloitte and Citigroup. Lei received her M.S. Finance from University of Rochester – Simon Business School and B.S Finance and Accounting from Northeastern University.