Activity from announced rounds
Outset Capital backs founders building AI, developer tools, robotics and technology for the future of work.
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.
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.
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.