The Outward Point of View
Breaking into VC
Why VC A year ago, I was living in New York, running my first startup, Neo, and my team and I were working nonstop on a mission to change the way teens learn about Health Education (Social-Emotional learning and Sex Ed) in schools. I was trying to raise our first round of funding with institutional […]
Read the storyOutward’s journey with Vauban – investment to exit in 15 months
Exactly fifteen months to the day since our investment, we are delighted to share once again with the world that Vauban has been acquired by Carta – the dominant US market leader in equity management software. Last year Outward announced its lead investment in Vauban – the end-to-end digital platform for alternate investment vehicles – and in […]
Read the storyWhy we invested in Bud
Outward is delighted to announce our follow on investment into Bud’s $80m Series B fundraise alongside new investor TDR Capital. Outward first invested in Bud back in 2018 and have continued to support Ed and the team on their growth journey. A marathon not a spint… We are an impatient generation. We value convenience, speed […]
Read the storyGrowing pains beyond Series A – a perspective from Outward’s founders
We recently hosted our inaugural Founder “Supper Club” where seven of Outward’s early portfolio founders were joined by two of our later stage founders – Anand Sambasivan (CEO and Founder of PrimaryBid) and Norris Koppel (CEO and Founder of Monese). We organised and moderated the dinner as we wanted our founders to hear first hand […]
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