Bring on 2025

Troubling Times As we head into 2025, the economic news headlines make for uneasy reading. US corporate bankruptcies hit 14-year high. UK borrowing costs hit highest level since 1998.  Construction growth misses forecasts. Retail sales growth minimal in final quarter of 2024. And, in non-economic news, Meta to get rid of factcheckers. Everywhere in the […]

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Meet Outward’s Principals

Andi Kazeroonian and Sanchit Dhote have been with Outward since day one. As part of the founding team, they’ve been game-changers in taking the fund from a blank sheet of paper to where it is today. Let’s hear what they have to say…  What was your background/ upbringing like? Andi: “I was born and raised […]

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Outward VC Fund II: Empowering Early-Stage Founders

Today, we are thrilled to announce the launch of Outward VC Fund II, reaffirming our commitment to helping founders breakthrough at the critical early stage. This mission, which drove the creation of Outward’s first fund in 2019, remains at the heart of our new fund.  The Early Stage Defines a Founder’s Journey  A founder’s journey […]

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An open letter to our next Prime Minister

Dear incoming Prime Minister, The UK stands at a crossroads. Prime Minister – the widely accepted view is that your job is to steward our inevitable decline. There is however another way. It requires bold decision making, radical thinking and a wholehearted embrace of modern technology – traits I acknowledge are not synonymous with government […]

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