Monese – Riding the Rollercoaster

Few fintech founders live the problem they then try to solve; even fewer succeed in scaling that solution beyond an idea. Norris Koppel is one of them. Norris moved over to the UK from Estonia as a proven entrepreneur, having built and sold several businesses before. Ever the optimist, Norris assumed attaining a standard UK […]

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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 […]

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Outward’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 […]

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Why 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 […]

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