Outset Raises $17M Series A to Scale Enterprise AI Interviews

A Message from Our Founders

a picture of Aaron Cannon and Michael Hess, the co-founders of Outset

Two and half years after building the world’s first AI interview and establishing the AI-moderated research category, we’re thrilled to announce the next chapter of our journey: Our Series A fundraise led by 8VC.

We’ve always been focused on one thing: better understanding humans.

By leveraging LLMs to build the world’s first AI-interviewer, we’ve made incredible strides helping big enterprises — like WeightWatchers, Nestle, and Microsoft — do exactly that. Better understand their customers (i.e. humans).

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How We'll Use This Funding

Expanding the Team

The only way to grow our product is to grow our people. We'll be pushing ourselves to finding exponentially more creative, passionate, talented contributors across go-to-market and engineering.

Adding More Functionality

AI is enabling more features for user research than we can even keep track of. We'll continue to think outside the box and listen to our customers to build exactly what they need as soon as they need it.

Engaging with Researchers

We want to do more than just build a product — we want to build the next level of the industry. We'll be hosting more live and online events, re-opening our open research program to help democratize research, and much more.

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Don't take our word for it. Listen to what our customers are saying.

Outset is now a key tool for our team to get more, better, and most importantly, faster research done, accelerating our innovation pipeline substantially.
Michael Widenmeyer
Consumer Insights Senior Manager
The speed and quality of the responses were outstanding. Outset will afford my team the opportunity to significantly increase the speed of delivery.
Wil Readinger
Head of UX Research
Outset's AI engaged users and asked follow-up questions that elicited specific, long-form answers that helped us understand what was important to them. And it did so at 10x-20x scale of customer interviews.
Jeff Zimmerman
Chief Product Officer
Outset allows users to spend their time on what really matters, which is understanding the consumer and designing products, rather than on countless hours of interviewing and labeling.
Leo Velásquez
Senior Experiment Designer
Outset saved us over 120 hours of research on a single project while delivering high quality insights that cannot be achieved with a survey. This is the future of research.
Brynna Mann
Managing Director
Outset saves our team countless hours by conducting hundreds of interviews in days rather than weeks, allowing our small team to operate at the scale of a much larger one and at a fraction of the cost.
Ben Schweitzer
Director User Experience