Devin Kohli co-founded Outward VC to fill the gap between seed funding and large institutional funding in fintech, focusing on companies with products in market reaching their first institutional round while providing extensive non-capital support through hiring, partnerships, and fundraising guidance. He's known for proactively marking down portfolio company valuations based on market conditions even when their metrics remain strong, and for targeting founders working at the intersection of financial services with broader challenges like healthcare, education, and AI rather than pure-play fintech.