Outset Capital

VC San Francisco, United States · Founded 2021

Outset Capital is an early-stage, founder-first venture fund led by active AI practitioners and builders who invest in AI, deeptech, and the future of work.

About Outset Capital

Outset Capital is a smaller venture firm with website, LinkedIn and Crunchbase presence but no disclosed healthcare thesis, sub-vertical focus, AI angle, stage preference, geography or check size in the source data. Founders should treat Outset as a generalist early-stage candidate, most plausibly active at pre-seed and seed, where the firm participates in rounds led by larger specialists. Likely check sizes for a firm of this profile sit in the $100K to $1.5M range, with constrained lead capacity and modest reserves for follow-ons. Outset is most plausibly a fit for digital health, healthcare IT, B2B SaaS aimed at clinical or administrative buyers, wellness and consumer-health businesses where general venture pattern-matching is sufficient and the founder owns the regulatory and reimbursement narrative. Therapeutics, regulated devices, diagnostics and any business that needs the investor to bring hospital network access, payer relationships or scientific diligence are unlikely strong fits. Healthcare AI founders pitching Outset should be ready to lead conversations on training data sourcing, FDA pathway if relevant, and realistic enterprise sales cycles. Entry is realistic only via direct LinkedIn outreach to firm principals, ideally warmed by a mutual investor or portfolio founder, with a tight pitch focused on team, traction and capital efficiency. In a first conversation, push for current fund size, average check, lead capacity, reserve strategy, named partner with healthcare conviction, and explicit healthcare positions in the existing portfolio before investing meaningful diligence time.

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Ali Rohde
Managing Partner
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Kanjun Qiu
General Partner
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Josh Albrecht
General Partner
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Last updated 2026-05-06. Sourced from this fund's published materials.
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