Outset Capital

Blog

Portfolio company news and updates from the team.

Stay in the loop.

Portfolio news, event recaps, and new episodes.

Showing 43 posts
10 Minutes or Less: Socket CEO Feross Aboukhadijeh on Open Source Security
PodcastApril 2026

10 Minutes or Less: Socket CEO Feross Aboukhadijeh on Open Source Security

Socket CEO Feross Aboukhadijeh joined 10 Minutes or Less to discuss the Axios backdoor attack, supply chain security, and the future of open source.

10 Minutes or Less: Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch on AI Agents and Leadership
PodcastMarch 2026

10 Minutes or Less: Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch on AI Agents and Leadership

Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch's appearance on 10 Minutes or Less was featured in Business Insider, covering how AI agents are reshaping work.

MatX CEO Featured on Cheeky Pint with John Collison
Portfolio NewsFebruary 2026

MatX CEO Featured on Cheeky Pint with John Collison

MatX CEO Reiner Pope joined Stripe co-founder John Collison on Cheeky Pint to discuss building dedicated LLM chips.

MatX Featured on Bloomberg
Portfolio NewsFebruary 2026

MatX Featured on Bloomberg

Bloomberg covered our portfolio company MatX's $500 million raise and their mission to compete with NVIDIA in purpose-built LLM chips.

MatX Raises $500M Series B
Portfolio NewsFebruary 2026

MatX Raises $500M Series B

Our portfolio company MatX raised a $500 million Series B led by Jane Street and Situational Awareness LP to scale manufacturing of their dedicated LLM inference chip.

Puck News Covers Poetiq's Six-Person Team Beating Google at AI
Portfolio NewsJanuary 2026

Puck News Covers Poetiq's Six-Person Team Beating Google at AI

Puck's Ian Krietzberg profiled our portfolio company Poetiq and how their six-person team beat Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI on ARC-AGI-2 with just $40,000 in hardware costs.

Poetiq Raises $45.8M Seed
Portfolio NewsJanuary 2026

Poetiq Raises $45.8M Seed

Our portfolio company Poetiq raised a $45.8 million seed round co-led by FYRFLY Venture Partners and Surface Ventures, with participation from Y Combinator, 468 Capital, and Operator Collective.

Poetiq on YC Lightcone: The Powerful Alternative to Fine-Tuning
Portfolio NewsJanuary 2026

Poetiq on YC Lightcone: The Powerful Alternative to Fine-Tuning

Our portfolio company Poetiq's co-founder Ian Fischer joined YC's Lightcone to discuss reasoning harnesses, automated prompt engineering, and how small teams can outperform frontier labs.

Poetiq Featured on YC Root Access: Beating Gemini 3 on ARC-AGI
Portfolio NewsJanuary 2026

Poetiq Featured on YC Root Access: Beating Gemini 3 on ARC-AGI

Our portfolio company Poetiq's co-founder Ian Fischer joined YC Root Access at NeurIPS to explain how their recursive self-improvement system beat Gemini 3 Deep Think on ARC-AGI at half the cost.

Medra Raises $52M Series A
Portfolio NewsDecember 2025

Medra Raises $52M Series A

Medra raised a $52 million Series A led by Human Capital, already working with Genentech, Cultivarium, and Addition Therapeutics on autonomous lab workflows.

Physical Intelligence Raises $600M at $5.6B Valuation
Portfolio NewsNovember 2025

Physical Intelligence Raises $600M at $5.6B Valuation

Our portfolio company Physical Intelligence raised $600 million at a $5.6 billion valuation, featured in Bloomberg.

Hiring Fair Demo: StarSling
Portfolio NewsNovember 2025

Hiring Fair Demo: StarSling

Our portfolio company StarSling demos their AI agents for DevOps at the Outset Capital Hiring Fair.

Hiring Fair Demo: Datology AI
Portfolio NewsNovember 2025

Hiring Fair Demo: Datology AI

Our portfolio company Datology AI demos their data curation platform at the Outset Capital Hiring Fair.

Hiring Fair Demo: Browserbase
Portfolio NewsNovember 2025

Hiring Fair Demo: Browserbase

Our portfolio company Browserbase demos their headless browser infrastructure for AI agents at the Outset Capital Hiring Fair.

Hiring Fair Demo: Medra
Portfolio NewsNovember 2025

Hiring Fair Demo: Medra

Our portfolio company Medra demos their Physical AI infrastructure at the Outset Capital Hiring Fair.

Medra Launch Covered by Endpoints News
Portfolio NewsSeptember 2025

Medra Launch Covered by Endpoints News

Our portfolio company Medra publicly launched their Continuous Science Platform, with coverage in Endpoints News and BusinessWire.

Datology AI Featured on Latent Space Podcast
Portfolio NewsAugust 2025

Datology AI Featured on Latent Space Podcast

Our portfolio company Datology's founder Ari Morcos appeared on the Latent Space podcast to discuss his journey from neuroscience to AI research.

Outset Capital Hiring Fair Summer 2025
Outset NewsAugust 2025

Outset Capital Hiring Fair Summer 2025

We hosted a hiring fair featuring seven portfolio companies and 50+ engineers.

Browserbase Named to Forbes' Next Billion-Dollar Startups
Portfolio NewsAugust 2025

Browserbase Named to Forbes' Next Billion-Dollar Startups

Our portfolio company Browserbase was named to Forbes' Next Billion-Dollar Startups 2025, with 1,000+ customers and 50 million browser sessions.

NBC News Features Anonymous Health
Portfolio NewsJune 2025

NBC News Features Anonymous Health

Our portfolio company Anonymous Health was featured in an exclusive segment on NBC News, showcasing their AI-hybrid therapy model.