Unusual Ventures

Venture Capital
67investments
6exits
$663Mraised by its portfolio in 12 months
1,040open roles in its portfolio

Overview

Unusual Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm that helps technical founders reach product-market fit in enterprise and developer markets. It invests in infrastructure software, security, AI and developer tools, and pairs capital with a dedicated in-house team and a published go-to-market playbook. The firm was founded in 2018 by John Vrionis and Jyoti Bansal, the founder of AppDynamics, and is based in Menlo Park, California.

Investor profile

Venture capital
Investments
67
53 of them startups
Hiring now
36
1,040 open roles
Rounds in 12 months
12
$663M raised
Exits
6
Focusshare of its companies
Artificial Intelligence 44%Cybersecurity 19%Information Technology 16%Sales & Marketing 12%Data & Analytics 12%Software 11%Financial Services 9%Professional Services 9%
Where its companies are
United States 55%United Kingdom 3%Sweden 1%France 1%Germany 1%Kazakhstan 1%Israel 1%India 1%
Stage of its companies
Series A 50%Pre-seed & seed 25%Series B 25%
Its companies, the freshest money firstAll 67 investments
Dream LabsSeed $90M · this month HeliosVenture round $3M · 1 mo ago · 8 roles DatabentoSeries B $97M · 4 mo ago · 15 roles Purple Dot Technologies LimitedVenture round · 4 mo ago CollateSeries A $95M · 5 mo ago · 11 roles Collate, Inc.Series A $95M · 5 mo ago · 1 role Rime LabsVenture round $22M · 5 mo ago · 3 roles Resolve AISeries A $125M · 9 mo ago · 20 roles EnFiVenture round $15M · 9 mo ago Bits TechnologySeries A $13M · 9 mo ago RailwaySeries B $100M · 9 mo ago · 7 roles Dazzle AISeed $8M · 10 mo ago
1,040 open roles at 36 of its companies
Hiring fastestroles opened in 30 days
Datadog86 new roles in 30 days Arctic Wolf56 new roles in 30 days Robinhood47 new roles in 30 days Gusto28 new roles in 30 days Harness15 new roles in 30 days Fal9 new roles in 30 days
New in the portfolioadded to its portfolio page in 6 months
LithosAIadded Oct 25 Dream Labsadded Oct 25
Co-investorscompanies they hold together
Andreessen Horowitz 6 shared Kleiner Perkins 5 shared Menlo Ventures 5 shared Redpoint Ventures 5 shared General Catalyst 4 shared GV 4 shared IVP 4 shared Index Ventures 4 shared Y Combinator 3 shared Battery Ventures 3 shared
Similar investorstheir companies share markets and countries
Sequoia Capital Y Combinator Sapphire Ventures Greylock CRV Felicis South Park Commons Abstract Ventures
Sources: its portfolio page, read Nov 8; 4 rounds in the press that name it

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Shared investors1
Sputnik ATXVia a fund
24 portfolio companies: Growify, Logically, Letstongo and 21 more
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Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
3
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
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Menlo Park United States
HQ
Menlo
200 Middlefield Rd, Suite 110, Menlo Park, CA 94025
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San Francisco United States
Regional office
San Francisco
434 Pacific Ave, San Francisco, CA 94133
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Boston United States
Regional office
Boston
341 Newbury Street, Floor 6, Boston, MA 02115
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