Unusual Ventures
Investment Details
Investor Type
Venture Capital
Asset Class Focus
Venture Capital
Stage Focus
Seed, Series A
Geographical Focus
United States
Industries Focus
- Financial Services
- Finance
- EdTech
- FinTech
- SaaS
- Artificial Intelligence
- Cybersecurity
- Enterprise Software
- Data
- Cloud
- Business Development
- Dev Tools
- No-Code & Low Code
- Childcare
Investment Size:
1,000,000 to 12,000,000 USD
Investor Details Founded: 2018
Unusual Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California, founded in 2018 by John Vrionis and Jyoti Bansal. The firm focuses on early-stage investments in enterprise software startups, particularly those leveraging artificial intelligence. Unusual Ventures aims to provide founders with a distinct advantage by offering hands-on support and resources to help them achieve product-market fit and scale their businesses.
The firm's investment strategy centers on partnering with exceptional founders and teams building innovative products. Unusual Ventures maintains a values-driven ethos, emphasizing integrity, diversity, humility, and long-term impact. The firm has invested in category-defining companies such as Arctic Wolf Networks, Traceable AI, Harness, and Vivun.
Unusual Ventures operates with a hands-on engagement model, offering services like Unusual Academy, a startup education and accelerator program, and the Get Ahead Platform, which provides operational resources in recruiting, go-to-market strategy, customer development, and talent acquisition. This approach reflects the firm's commitment to being a partner rather than a passive investor, working alongside founders through product-market fit and scaling.
Requirements
- Large addressable markets
- Strong product vision
- Clear insight into significant problems
- Tremendous technical product depth
- Passion for go-to-market excellence
- Authentic experience in the problems they aim to address
- Track record for building
- Deep curiosity
- Humility to acquire new skills
- Ability to attract and hire exceptional leaders
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Portfolio Companies
- Arctic Wolf Networks
- Traceable AI
- Harness
- Vivun
- Carta
- Robinhood
- Webflow
- Wonderschool
- Socket
- Mem
- Railway
- Descope
- HumanSignal
- Outlier
- Relyance AI
- Vizcom
- Qdrant
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