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Outset Capital

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Outset Capital is a $10M fund backed by the founders of Dropbox, Quora, and Notion. We invest in pre-seed and seed companies in AI, deeptech, and the future of work. We've backed 20 companies already, including Datology, Kindred, MatX, and Charge Robotics.

The fund is led by partners Ali Rohde, Kanjun Qiu, and Josh Albrecht. We're a unique fund, in that we're both builders and investors - in addition to investing, Kanjun and Josh are also building Imbue, an AI startup creating agents that can reason and code, where they recently announced a $200M Series B. We have experience building 100-billion-parameter foundation models, scaling unicorns Dropbox and Addepar, and raising hundreds of millions in venture capital.

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