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Jordan Kretchmer
Senior Partner, Outlander VC
Company

Based in
Mill Valley, CA
Invests
Pre-Seed or Seed
Type
Investor
Jordan Kretchmer is a senior partner at Outlander VC, a seed-stage venture firm investing across fintech, AI, cybersecurity, and physical AI. He sits on the board of DiffuseDrive, which generates synthetic training data for autonomous vehicles and robots, and backed NODA AI, a defense orchestration platform that raised a $25 million Series A led by Bessemer. Before venture, he was co-founder and executive chairman of Rapid Robotics and CEO of Carbon Robotics. He argues robotics needs a shared integration standard to move past isolated pilots.
Relevant Investments
DiffuseDrive
Generates photorealistic synthetic training data to close the data gap for automotive, aerospace, and robotics AI.
Seed 2025
diffusedrive.com
NODA AI
Orchestrates fleets of autonomous defense systems across vendors through a vendor-agnostic reasoning platform.
Pre-seed 2025 to Series A 2026
www.nodaintelligence.ai
MATERIAL
3D prints full-stack batteries directly into product designs using a chemistry-agnostic manufacturing platform.
Seed 2026
www.material.inc
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