Jamie Burke is the Founder & CEO of Outlier Ventures, Europe’s first dedicated blockchain VC and Accelerator. An early investor in cryptocurrencies, Jamie founded Outlier Ventures in 2014 with the belief that decentralized technologies would introduce new paradigms for the web and create a more equitable and open economic system. Today, Jamie is at the forefront of an investment landscape that spans various Web3 technologies as they converge with media, commerce and culture to lay the foundation for the Metaverse. Jamie and his team at Outlier Ventures have grown a portfolio of nearly 100 start-ups, facilitated over $130 million in seed funding for its portfolio companies, and have helped to jump-start multiple billion-dollar crypto ecosystems.

Jamie is an influential figure in the burgeoning NFT space and a notable media commentator on all things AR/VR, gaming, and DeFi. Jamie is the host of The Metaverse Podcast, The Metaverse Show in VR, and the NFTs.WTF podcast, where he interviews the top minds in Web3, the Metaverse and beyond. He is an active collector of NFTs, co-founding 100xARt, a community of the Top 200 collectors. Jamie’s exposure to founders, investors, and builders makes him an expert on the most important trends across Web3, media, commerce, and culture.