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Kanjun Qiu

Co-Founder and General Partner, Outset Capital

About

Kanjun Qiu is a mathematician-turned-venture-capitalist who competed in the USA Mathematical Olympiad and later served as Chief of Staff at Dropbox during its hypergrowth from 300 to 1,500 people, giving her both deep problem-solving skills and hands-on scaling experience that she applies to evaluating founders. As a serial founder-investor hybrid who co-founded AI research company Generally Intelligent and currently leads Imbue while serving as GP at Outset Capital, she focuses on backing founder-scientists building AI systems that can reason and code rather than just pattern-match, particularly those working on long-horizon research problems that enhance human agency. Kanjun Qiu is a mathematician-turned-venture-capitalist who competed in the USA Mathematical Olympiad and later served as Chief of Staff at Dropbox during its hypergrowth from 300 to 1,500 people, giving her both deep problem-solving skills and hands-on scaling experience that she applies to evaluating founders. As a serial founder-investor hybrid who co-founded AI research company Generally Intelligent and currently leads Imbue while serving as GP at Outset Capital, she focuses on backing founder-scientists building AI systems that can reason and code rather than just pattern-match, particularly those working on long-horizon research problems that enhance human agency.

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Investment focus

Stages
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Sectors
AI
Enterprise
SaaS
Devtools

Investment details

Avg check size$100K - $200K
Can lead rounds
No
Geographies
USA