Outlander VC
Venture capitalNew York · Pre-Seed–Late Stage · 7 people tracked
Also known as OUTLANDER MANAGEMENT, LLC
Investment thesis
Outlander VC invests at the earliest stages, prioritizing founders over metrics and backing startups even before they have revenue or a product. Led by former founders who scaled companies to hundreds of millions in revenue, the firm emphasizes hands-on support beyond capital. It deliberately seeks out overlooked and underfunded founders, including women and minority founders, and startups outside core coastal tech hubs, aiming to find exceptional entrepreneurs in both core and non-core tech markets.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Team · 7 people
from the firm's website
Abbie Strabala brings a hospitality-to-nonprofit-fundraising background and helped spin a nonprofit into a standalone $38M women's health venture fund, using a structured 20-point pre-seed founder framework and valuing founder pushback.
Junior Partner Deepika Jonnalagadda is a technical, thesis-driven leader who champions teleoperated humanoid robots by 2026 and serves as a visible, decision-making representative at founder events and pre-seed content.
Jordan Kretchmer, founder of Livefyre (acquired by Adobe) and Rapid Robotics, brings consumer-scale software and robotics expertise and a factory-operator lens favoring out-of-the-box solutions for small and mid-sized manufacturers.
Leura Craig, a former repeat founder who bootstrapped two startups, brings a scrappy operator perspective, coaching founders to prioritize learning velocity through experiments while centering emerging ecosystems outside the Southeast.
Paige Craig, a former U.S. Marine who bootstrapped a private military company from $10,000 to hundreds of millions, uses codified, military-style founder assessments to back technically strong, under-networked founders early.
What they invest in
from 4 of 8 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×2Enterprise Software ×2Data & Infrastructure ×1Defense Tech ×1Developer Tools ×1HR Tech ×1Marketplaces ×1Mobility & Transportation ×1
HQs:United States×2
Investments · 8 tracked
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Enterprise SoftwareHR TechSan Francisco, US
Josh Reeves(Founder/CEO)inEdward Kim(Founder/Empowering Gusto's Engineering Team)inTomer London(Founder/; Empowering Gusto's Product and Design Teams)in
Havoc develops software for coordinating autonomous vehicles across air, sea, and land domains, enabling operators to supervise hundreds or thousands of autonomous assets simultaneously through a unified control platform.
AI & Machine LearningDefense TechRobotics
Paul Lwin(Co-Founder & CEO)
Frequently asked questions
- What stage does Outlander VC invest at?
- Outlander VC invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Late Stage stages.
- What is Outlander VC's typical check size?
- Outlander VC typically writes checks of $500K – $2.5M.
- What sectors does Outlander VC focus on?
- Outlander VC focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Climate Tech, Deep Tech, Defense Tech, Hardware, Mobility & Transportation, Robotics, SaaS, Space Tech.
- Where is Outlander VC located?
- Outlander VC is headquartered in New York, US.
- Does Outlander VC lead rounds?
- Yes, Outlander VC leads investment rounds.
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