Outpost Capital

Co-founders and General Partners Ryan Wang and Sha Zhou lead investment decisions. Wang came from investment banking at Citigroup and Societe Generale, while Zhou was a software engineer and manager at HP, NetScaler, and Juniper before becoming a venture capitalist. Vice President Cherie Liu, a Columbia graduate with prior investment banking experience in New York, supports deal execution with a focus on fintech, blockchain, AI, and cleantech.

Outpost's sourcing advantage rests on the cross-border profile of its partners. Sha Zhou advises China's central government on economic and foreign-affairs issues, including the One Belt One Road strategy, which opens a pipeline of Asia-based deep-tech teams. Combined with Ryan Wang's network across Silicon Valley, the firm accesses founders that may not surface through conventional U.S.-only venture networks.

The firm invests at the earliest stages — seed and startup — and its website explicitly states it is an early-stage venture fund. Outpost looks for companies at the frontier of AI, spatial computing, blockchain, and robotics where commercial adoption is still years away. Its portfolio includes accelerator-backed startups such as Supermedium, which went through Y Combinator, indicating a willingness to back pre-revenue technical teams.

Outpost does not publish a formal list of excluded sectors. Its stated focus areas — XR/spatial computing, blockchain and decentralized systems, artificial intelligence, and robotics — suggest the firm avoids later-stage, non-technical, or non-frontier-adjacent opportunities. The firm's 'founder-problem fit' emphasis further filters out teams that lack deep domain expertise in the core categories it targets.

Outpost's public materials do not specify its typical check size or lead-versus-follow posture. The portfolio includes companies that raised from multiple investors — Supermedium was backed by Y Combinator alongside Outpost — indicating the firm co-invests in syndicates. Whether it leads seed rounds with term sheets is not publicly documented.

Outpost is structured as a traditional early-stage venture fund, not a family office. The firm's website identifies it as a 'cross-border, early-stage venture fund' with General Partners leading a portfolio of third-party-backed startups. It operates out of Mountain View and has a stated Asia presence, deploying external limited-partner capital rather than a single-family balance sheet.

No exit events are publicly disclosed on the firm's website or in its portfolio company descriptions. The portfolio skews toward technical ventures still in the development and scaling phases (MOAC, IoTeX, Natilus, Supermedium). Given the firm's 2015 founding and focus on frontier technologies with extended R&D cycles, a full exit history is not yet publicly observable.