Leading Crypto VC & Accelerator Outlier Ventures announces Snoop Dogg, deadmau5, consumer brand guru Shaun Neff, and the founders of The Sandbox and Polygon have joined the Outlier Ventures Partnership to accelerate the Open Metaverse
Summary
Their portfolio includes notable projects across DeFi, NFTs and blockchain infrastructure with a focus on emergent Metaverse use cases such as NFT-based digital couture fashion brands, avatar marketplaces, decentralized music publishing platforms, play-to-earn games, augmented reality social positioning protocols, and more.In the last year, Outlier Ventures has expanded its Base Camp program to partner with leading protocols such as Filecoin / IPFS, Polygon, and Polkadot to host dedicated accelerator programs for these Web3 ecosystems. Through its blockchain agnostic approach, Outlier Ventures has achieved record growth, doubled its cohort intake year after year, and is on target to accelerate well over 100 startups in 2022, making it one of the most active investors in the space by deal volume and the most active Metaverse accelerator globally.Since its inception, Outlier Ventures has always viewed its portfolio as an open stack of technologies that contribute to a new web paradigm, referred to as Web3, based on principles that prioritize the sovereignty of the user, their data and digital wealth, over platform and shareholder supremacy. This was our largest single new member intake to date and we will continue to add members who can bring a new level of dynamism and financial firepower to this ecosystem, and in particular, improve the diversity of representation required to reach billions of users globally.The following new Outliers represent some of the most prominent figures across entertainment, music, consumer and celebrity brands, and Web3; Shaun Neff, founder, investor and advisor Neff Headware, Sun Bum, Robinhood, Sony, Target, Moon with Kendall Jenner, and Beach House Group brandswill join as one of Outlier Ventures first institutional investors. I am excited to work with Outlier to help take these founders mainstream and grow their reach to billions of users, while also carving out a clear path for the worlds biggest brands and celebrities to enter the space. Ive worked with top talent from Kendall Jenner to Snoop Dogg and I can tell you firsthand that those at the helm of the worlds leading media and entertainment empires are trying to figure out their role in this new economy.