Outset Capital

Activity from announced rounds

Activity in this selectionUnited States · Sep 30, 2026 · Sep 1, 2026

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
2
Confirmed lead rounds
0
All roles disclosed
New companies
2
First participation on record · 0 follow-on
Funding in participating rounds
$40M
1 disclosed · full round size, not this investor’s share

By stage

Pre-seed1
Series A1

By primary sector

Developer tools1
Hardware1

By country

United States2

Rounds

2 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