@OutcastVC

Outcast Ventures is a pre-seed/seed VC fund in SF built around people, from founding teams to first hires. Catalyst 01 applications now open until April 6.

 San Francisco
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Joined August 2025
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Andy Chen
@andychenJul 14
Today we’re launching Catalyst 02: where founders meet their co-founders Looking back on cohort 01, one thing stood out…
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Amy Lin
@heyamylinJun 23
Your next co-founder might be at this dinner. @andychen and I are hosting a private founder dinner in SF. luma.com/98n4ukj3

Future Founders Dinner · Luma

The best co-founder for your company isn’t already in your network. Co-founder selection is the highest-leverage decision you’ll make as a founder. Not the…

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Andy Chen
@andychenJun 17
Yesterday's $60B Cursor acquisition means a group of exceptional builders suddenly has the freedom to leave and start companies of their own. At @OutcastVC , we track this through The Talent Mobility Index: our framework for understanding when exceptional technical talent is locked up, when it becomes liquid, and when it becomes free to build.
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Andy Chen
@andychenApr 7
This is the question I get asked more than any other: I'm grabbing coffee with a potential technical co-founder. What do I ask?" So I wrote down 100 of them: outcastventures.com/essays/1…

100 Questions to Ask Your Future Technical Co-Founder

You finally got a meeting with a potential technical co-founder. You like their background. You think there might be something here. Now what?

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Andy Chen
@andychenApr 6
What if the best co-founder for you is someone outside your network? If that question hit home, Catalyst applications close TONIGHT at midnight. Been a longtime listener of Founder in Arms so was thrilled to sit down with @rajatsuri and talk about why we built @outcastvc and Catalyst around the contrarian idea...
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Amy Lin
@heyamylinApr 2
Building a billion-dollar company takes 12+ years. Are you choosing a co-founder who can go the distance?
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Andy Chen
@andychenApr 1
The AI generation may build companies 10x larger than those before it.
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Amy Lin
@heyamylinMar 31
The most overrated signal in venture? Where the founder went to school.
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Amy Lin
@heyamylinMar 30
Most capital goes to all-male teams. The biggest exits don't.
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Andy Chen
@andychenMar 30
If you want your kid to be a billionaire, name them… Michael.
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Andy Chen
@andychenMar 27
Building a company is a learned skill. We analyzed 350 U.S. tech IPOs and $1B+ acquisitions over the past 20 years in our Billion-Dollar Founder Study.
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Amy Lin
@heyamylinMar 26
Everyone's celebrating the solo founder era. The data says it's a trap. 📊 The Billion-Dollar Founder Insight 02 📊
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Andy Chen
@andychenMar 25
The best co-founder probably isn’t someone you’ve worked with before.
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1/ Introducing Catalyst - a program for top 1% builders to meet their co-founder. Co-founders and GPs @andychen and @heyamylin have spent their careers recruiting, building, and investing at the earliest stages.
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3/ So we built Catalyst to change that. 💰️$500K investment 💻️60 founders (half technical, half non-technical) ☀️ 2 months 🤖 $1M+ cloud & compute credits ...all in-person in San Francisco. The founders work side by side and decide deliberately whether to start a company together.
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4/ Applications are now open: outcastventures.com/catalyst…

Apply to Catalyst - Outcast Ventures

Catalyst is where the top 1% builders meet co-founders they'd never find otherwise. $1M+ in compute/inference credits, $500k investment, and SF office space

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Replying to @OutcastVC @atchen @heyamylin
2/ One pattern kept showing up: who you build with is the most important decision a founder makes, and it's still left to chance. When we studied 350 billion-dollar U.S. tech exits, the data confirmed it. Founders who previously didn't work together built companies with 21% higher exits than those who had.
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