Unusual Ventures
Venture capitalMenlo Park · Pre-Seed–Series A · 27 people tracked
Also known as INTEGRITY VENTURE PARTNERS, L.L.C. · Unusual Ventures Investment Partners
Investment thesis
Unusual Ventures focuses on partnering with enterprise founders from their earliest insight all the way to market leadership. The firm emphasizes helping companies achieve product-market fit, describing a proprietary playbook designed to move product-market fit from improbable to inevitable. Based on the investments highlighted, the firm supports early-stage rounds such as seed and Series A across enterprise software and AI infrastructure companies.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 25, 2026.
Team · 27 people
from the firm's website & public directories
Founder mafia
The Unusual Ventures mafia →8 people who came through Unusual Ventures went on to found or lead other companies.
What they invest in
from 78 of 90 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×47SaaS ×39Enterprise Software ×27Developer Tools ×22Data & Infrastructure ×19Cybersecurity ×16Fintech ×15Cloud Computing ×13
HQs:United States×53Israel×1Sweden×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 48 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×192 founders×203 founders×64+ founders×3
Where their founders studiedfrom 52 founders with education data
Stanford University ×8Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi ×5CentraleSupélec ×3University of California, Berkeley ×3Academy of Art University ×2California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo ×2Harvard University ×2Technion ×2
Where their founders worked beforefrom 62 founders with career history
Bridgewater Associates ×3IBM ×3Intel Corporation ×3McAfee ×3Stanford University ×3VMware ×3Arachnys ×2Credit Karma ×2
Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program
5 founders hold a PhD · 5 hold an MBA (of 57 with degree data)
Investments · 90 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 42025 · 62024 · 42023 · 32022 · 22021 · 42020 · 225 dated
Datadog is a cloud-based monitoring and security platform that provides observability, analytics, and protection for infrastructure, applications, and data across enterprises.
Cloud ComputingCybersecurityData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsNew York, US
Olivier Pomel(Co-founder & CEO)inAlexis Le-Quoc(Co-founder & CTO)inMichael Jaconi(Executive Officer, Director)Amit Agarwal(Executive Officer)inAnthony Merlino(Executive Officer)
BoardCHRISTOPHER MOORE(Director)
Co-investorsAmplify PartnersaVentureBantam GroupComcast VenturesContour Venture PartnersCRV (Charles River Ventures)+22 more
Aeqium provides AI-driven compensation planning software that lets teams configure compensation cycles, build pay logic, manage bands, and run analytics while integrating with HRIS, ATS, and equity management systems.
AI & Machine LearningHR TechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Peter McKee(Founder)inFrancis Peter McKee(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardIan Sheridan(Director)in
Co-investorsVestigo VenturesRidge Ventures
Buncha is a social commerce platform that delivers groceries and products from favorite stores on a neighborhood-based schedule.
CleantechConsumerE-commerceLogistics & Supply ChainHopkins, US
Co-investorsMatchstick VenturesStarting LineTechstarsAssembly VenturesFoundryMu Ventures+1 more
Endgame helps sales teams develop buyer trust and advisory relationships through AI-powered insights and guidance.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSales Tech
Alex Bilmes(CEO and co-founder)in
Co-investorsMenlo VenturesUpfront VenturesEQT Ventures
Railway builds a cloud computing platform designed to reduce deployment friction and simplify the software development lifecycle.
Cloud ComputingDeveloper Tools
Jake Cooper(Founder)in
Co-investorsTq Ventures LlcBasecamp FundCompoundPioneerFPVRedpoint Ventures
Automated process for investing in alternatives with IRA savings.
Nashville, US
Eric Satz(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardWilliam Guttman(Director)Ammar Hanafi(Director)in
Board seatSarah Leary· per SEC Form D · $39.9M raise · filed Jan 2022
Co-investorsChaos VenturesAdvance Venture PartnersMoment Ventures, Llc
Athens, US
Konstantinos Venetsanopoulos(Executive Officer, Director)Constantinos Venetsanopoulos(Founder)Vangelis Koukis(Founder)in
BoardAthanasios Kalekos(Director)
Board seatJohn Vrionis· per SEC Form D
Co-investorsOdyssey Venture Funds LP
CloudBees Unify Feature Management is a control layer for software delivery that decouples code deployment from customer exposure, letting engineering teams ship continuously while leaders retain visibility, governance, and risk control.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Jose, US
Sacha Labourey(Executive Officer, Director)inFrançois Déchery(Co-founder & Unified Platform Executive Sponsor)Michael Neale(Founder)inMic Neale(Founder)Moritz Plassnig(Chief Executive Officer)inPhilippe Van Hove(Chief Revenue Officer)in
Board seatJohn Vrionis· per SEC Form D · $966K raise · filed Jul 2024
Co-investorsCamber PartnersDelta-v CapitalFoundryLightspeed Venture PartnersMatrixRembrandt Venture Partners
San Francisco, US
Board seatSarah Leary· per SEC Form D · $14.2M raise · filed Feb 2021
Co-investorsCowboy Ventures
DataStax provides enterprise-grade database infrastructure and AI development tools, including Astra DB (a NoSQL vector database built on Apache Cassandra), Hyper-Converged Database for on-premises deployments, and Langflow (an open-source low-code platform for building generative AI applications).
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Jonathan Ellis(Executive Officer, Director)Clint Smith(Executive Officer)Billy Bosworth(Executive Officer, Director)Dennis Wolf(Executive Officer)Davor Bonaciin
BoardEric Chin(Director)
Board seatJohn Vrionis· per SEC Form D · $37.6M raise · filed May 2021
Co-investorsAkkadian VenturesComcast VenturesCross Creek AdvisorsCrosslink CapitalInvestXKleiner Perkins+9 more
GovSignals provides a government contracting intelligence platform that tracks federal and SLED (state, local, education) opportunities, awards, and forecasts from pre-solicitation through award.
AI & Machine LearningDefense TechGovTechSaaSNew York, US
Derek Hoyt(Executive Officer, Director)Ethan Aldrich(Executive Officer, Director)Jeremy Doochin(Executive Officer)Conner Aldrich(Executive Officer)
Board seatLars Albright· per SEC Form D
Kirkland, US
Hao Lu(Executive Officer, Director)Bing Xu(Executive Officer, Director)
Board seatWei Lien Dang· per SEC Form D · $3.8M raise · filed Apr 2023
Navro provides payment infrastructure for cross-border payroll, handling salary, statutory, and tax payments through a single API or file-based flow across 200+ territories and 130+ currencies.
Data & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareFintechHR TechSaaSLondon
Aran Michael Brown(Director)Aran Brown(Co-founder & CEO)Eddie Harrison(Co-founder)Neil Kinnon(Chief Product Officer)inJames Deane(Executive Officer)Kelly Hartman(Executive Officer)
Board seatLars Albright· per SEC Form D
Co-investorsBetter Tomorrow VenturesClocktower VenturesMotive PartnersBain Capital VenturesJump CapitalSignalRank
New York, US
Jared Parker(Executive Officer, Director)Charles Patrick Dougherty(Executive Officer, Director)
Board seatJohn Vrionis· per SEC Form D · $5M raise · filed Jul 2020
Rime builds voice AI models designed for real-time human conversation, offering 600+ customizable voices with adjustable accent, pace, and tone.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Lily Clifford(Executive Officer, Director)inBrooke Larson(Founder)
BoardAres Geovanos(Director)Morgan Blumberg(Director)inSandhya Hedge(Director)
Board seatJohn Vrionis· per SEC Form D
Co-investorsCorazon CapitalMoth FundM13M13 VenturesSEEDRA VenturesTwilio Ventures
San Francisco, US
Alexander Halliday(Co-Founder & CEO)Matthew Hammel(Co-Founder & Director)ALEXANDER HALLIDAY(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)MATTHEW HAMMEL(Director, Promoter)
BoardMIKE DUBOE(Director)in
Board seatSandhya Hegde· per SEC Form D · $40M raise · filed Nov 2025
Co-investorsGreylock Partners
AirOps provides AI-powered workflows for content teams to develop and optimize SEO and AI-engine-optimized content at scale.
AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Berna Gonzalez(Co-Founder & CTO)inAlex Halliday(Co-Founder & CEO)inMatt Hammel(Co-Founder & COO)
BoardMike Duboe(Board Director / Investor (Greylock))
Co-investorsAlt CapitalCalm VenturesFounder CollectiveFrontline VenturesGreylock PartnersVillage Global+2 more
Alto operates a platform for self-directed IRAs, letting individuals fund retirement accounts via IRA transfers, employer-plan rollovers, or cash contributions and invest those funds in private markets.
FintechMarketplacesSaaS
Eric Satz(Founder & CEO)
Co-investorsAcrew CapitalAdvance Venture PartnersAlpha Edisonalphabet angelsAlumni VenturesAtacama Ventures+16 more
Aakrit Prasad(Founder)in
Co-investorsCarya Venture PartnersCounterpart VenturesPathbreaker VenturesStage 2 CapitalNational Grid Partners
Arctic Wolf provides managed detection and response (MDR) services with 24x7 security teams that detect, investigate, and respond to threats using an open XDR platform processing trillions of events weekly.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Brian NeSmith(Founder & CEO)in
Co-investors33NArtisanal VenturesBright Pixel CapitalClearSkyCyber Mentor FundDelta-v Capital+14 more
Armorblox provides email security services, including customer support for handling security issues for its business customers.
CybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Co-investorsMango CapitalNext47Point72 VenturesS VenturesTau VenturesGeneral Catalyst
AuraSell provides a structured AI system for sales teams, consolidating multiple LLMs, prompts, and data into one platform with guardrails so reps can use AI consistently at scale.
AI & Machine LearningSaaSSales Tech
Co-investorsMyriad Venture PartnersNext47
BallerTV is a streaming platform for live and on-demand youth sports events including basketball, volleyball, soccer, and futsal.
Media & EntertainmentSports Tech
Robert Angarita(Founder)in
Co-investorsAlbum VCIndex Ventures
BallerTV is a live and on-demand streaming service for youth and amateur sports, recording full-length games to capture footage for families and give student-athletes exposure for recruitment.
ConsumerMedia & EntertainmentSports Tech
Robert Angarita(Co-CEO, Co-Founder, Board Member)inAaron Hawkey(Co-CEO, Co-Founder, Board Member)Sandeep Hingorani(EVP & Founding Team Member)
Co-investorsAlbum VCBessemer Venture PartnersIndex VenturesAurumCerity Partners VenturesChaac Ventures+2 more
Co-investorsThird Point VenturesShasta Ventures
Bits provides a compliance platform for regulated financial companies, covering KYB, KYC, AML risk scoring, transaction monitoring, ongoing due diligence, and case management.
AI & Machine LearningFintechSaaSStockholm, SE
Fredrik Eriksson(Founder)Jonatan Klintberg(Founder)Robin Lantz(Founder)
Co-investorsAlstin CapitalAlliance VCAlliance VentureFin Capital
Cloud ComputingCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Ajay Arora(Founder)in
Co-investorsEvolution Equity PartnersFirebolt Ventures Management Company, LlcPoint72 Ventures
Carta is a cloud-based ERP platform for private capital markets that manages cap tables, equity administration, fund management, and valuations for startups, private companies, and venture funds globally.
Enterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Henry Ward(Co-founder)Manu Kumar(Co-founder)inCharly Kevers(Chief Financial Officer)Jeff Perry(Chief Revenue Officer)Nick Avery(Chief People Officer)Nicole Baer(Chief Marketing Officer)
Co-investorsA*Align VenturesAmity VenturesAndreessen HorowitzAnthemis VentureDraper Associates+35 more
Chalk provides data infrastructure and risk modeling for financial services companies.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsFintech
Marc Freed-Finnegan(Co-Founder & CEO)inElliot Marx(Co-Founder)inAndy(Co-Founder)inAndrew Moreland(Co-founder)in
Co-investorsConversion CapitalCore Venture CapitalFelicis VenturesTriatomic CapitalXfund
CO2 AI is an enterprise sustainability platform that helps large organizations measure, reduce, and report carbon emissions across corporate, product, and supplier data.
AI & Machine LearningClimate TechEnterprise Software
Co-investorsPartech Ventures
Connectly provides a WhatsApp-based conversational commerce and customer engagement platform that uses AI to automate marketing campaigns, sales flows, and customer support across channels.
AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSales TechSan Francisco, US
Stefanos Loukakos(Founder)in
Co-investorsMarathon Venture Capital
CatchBack is a platform that links digital NFTs with physical Pokémon cards, letting collectors buy, trade, and own cards through digital-to-physical ownership.
AI & Machine LearningConsumerCreator EconomyCrypto & Web3E-commerceFintechFuture of WorkMarketplacesSaaS
Gajus Kuizinas(Founder)in
Co-investorsAtelierNew Enterprise Associates (NEA)Vibe CapitalCowboy VenturesThe Fund
TruSTAR provides intelligence management technology that automates data orchestration to centralize and normalize security intelligence across security operations.
CybersecurityData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Paul Kurtz(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
BoardPatrick Coughlin(Executive Officer, Promoter)
Co-investorsAcrew CapitalAkkadian VenturesAspect VenturesAugust CapitalCRV (Charles River Ventures)Heavybit+6 more
Co-investors2.12 AngelsBlindspot Ventures Management CoDifferential VenturesFifth Down CapitalGood Growth CapitalMotley Fool Ventures+7 more
Descope is a no/low-code customer identity and access management (CIAM) platform that lets developers build authentication and user journeys using a drag-and-drop visual editor, SDKs, or REST APIs.
CybersecurityDeveloper ToolsSaaSLos Altos, US
Slavik Markovich(Founder)inGilad Shriki(Founder)inDan Sarel(Founder)inDoron Sharon(Founder)inGuy Rinat(Founder)inMeir Wahnon(Founder)in
Co-investorsLightspeed Venture PartnersNotable CapitalTriventuresVerissimo VenturesDell Technologies CapitalJ-Ventures
EnFi builds multi-agent AI software for commercial lending workflows, converting unstructured documents into structured data for deal screening, underwriting, portfolio monitoring, and risk analysis.
AI & Machine LearningFintechSaaSBoston, US
Scott Weller(Founder)
Co-investorsBoston Seed CapitalCommerce VenturesFINTOP CapitalPatriot Financial Partners
Enterpret offers a customer feedback analytics platform with dashboards and reporting that consolidate voice-of-customer data, rank themes by business impact (ARR, CSAT, NPS), and surface real-time insights.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Arnav S.(Founder)inArnav S(Founder)Varun Sharma(Founder)
Co-investorsCanaan PartnersInvariantes FundKleiner PerkinsPeak XV PartnersRecall CapitaliSeed
Fal provides fast inference for generative AI models, particularly for image and video generation tasks like SDXL and Whisper.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCreator EconomyDeveloper ToolsSan Francisco, US
Gorkem Yurtseven(Founder & CEO)inBurkay Gur(Founder)in
BoardSteve Jang(Director)inJennifer Li(Director)inGlenn Solomon(Director)in
Co-investors500 Emerging EuropeAlkeon InnovationAndreessen HorowitzBessemer Venture PartnersCortical Venturese2vc+14 more
FluidCloud is a Cloud Cloning platform that discovers a company's live multi-cloud infrastructure via a read-only role, builds a queryable graph of all resources and relationships, and generates Terraform to migrate, clone, recover, optimize, govern, and provision estates across public and private clouds.
Cloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwarePleasanton, US
Goldcast provides an AI-powered platform for creating and repurposing video content such as webinars, field events, video podcasts, and customer testimonials, using agentic workflows to turn long-form video into clips, blogs, emails, and social posts.
AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaSNew York, US
Kishore Kothandaraman(Cofounder)Palash Soni(Co-Founder & CEO)inKishore K(Co-Founder)Aashish Srinivas(CTO)Kelly Cheng(CMO)Lauren Creedon(Chief Product Officer)
Co-investorsAfore CapitalHubSpot VenturesNewBuild.VCUnderscore VC
Grain is an AI notetaker that captures and enriches meetings across platforms, with or without a bot, and delivers the meeting data to AI tools like Claude and ChatGPT.
AI & Machine LearningFuture of WorkSaaSSan Francisco, US
Ryan Johnson(Founder)
Co-investorsCampus Founders Fund
Gusto provides payroll processing, employee benefits administration, and HR management tools to businesses, offering integrated software alongside support services for these functions.
Enterprise SoftwareHR TechSan Francisco, US
Josh Reeves(Founder/CEO)inEdward Kim(Founder/Empowering Gusto's Engineering Team)inTomer London(Founder/; Empowering Gusto's Product and Design Teams)in
Co-investors137 VenturesA*Acrew CapitalAkkadian VenturesAspect VenturesAurum+48 more
Hallow is a mobile app that offers guided contemplative and meditative prayer techniques rooted in Catholic tradition.
ConsumerWellness & Fitness
Alex Jones(CEO)Alessandro DiSanto(Founder)in
Co-investorsContraryDrive CapitalHomebrewIrishAngelsNarya CapitalNextView Ventures+4 more
Harness provides software delivery automation and infrastructure for engineering teams to deploy code reliably and efficiently.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Jyoti Bansal(Co-Founder & CEO)inRishi Singh(Co-Founder & Board Member)in
Co-investorsAlkeon InnovationArtisanal VenturesBattery VenturesCrosslink CapitalFikaGeodesic Capital+12 more
Helios offers Proxi, an AI-native policy and procurement intelligence platform that consolidates policy, regulatory, funding, procurement, and stakeholder signals so teams can monitor changes, analyze documents like legislation and RFPs, and draft memos and briefs.
AI & Machine LearningGovTechSaaSNew York City, US
Brandon Smith(Founder)
Co-investorsCollide CapitalEquity AllianceStray Dog CapitalSUPPLY CHANGE CAPITAL
HumanSignal provides data labeling, model evaluation, and quality workflow tools for AI teams, including managed annotation data services and Label Studio Enterprise for customizable labeling interfaces with cloud or on-prem deployment.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
Michael Malyuk(Founder)inNikolai Liubimov(Founder)inMax Tkachenko
Co-investors500 GlobalBow CapitalSwift VenturesEssence Venture Capital
Illumix builds infrastructure for spatial AI, combining computer vision, multimodal AI, and edge deployment technologies for both consumer and enterprise applications.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechHardwareRoboticsPalo Alto, US
Kirin Sinha(Founder & CEO)inMarianne Dang(Founder)in
Co-investorsDisney AcceleratorLightShed VenturesLightspeed Venture PartnersMaveronRaptor GroupSony Ventures Corporation+2 more
KeyCaliber provides AI-native security visibility and asset management across an organization's security tools, from endpoint to boardroom.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software
Roselle Safran(Founder)in
Co-investorsLytical VenturesHearstLab
Kipling Secure is an AI governance and security platform built for managed service providers (MSPs) to discover shadow AI usage, assess AI-related risk, enforce data policies, and respond to AI threats across client environments.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecuritySaaSSan Jose, US
Sunil Bakhru(Founder)Saurabh Sandhir(Founder)in
Co-investorsEMERGENT VENTURESZ5 Capital
Kusari builds a software supply chain security platform that maps direct and transitive dependencies from source, prioritizes vulnerabilities by reachability and exploitability, and generates continuous, audit-ready SBOMs.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsRidgefield, US
Parth Patel(Executive Officer, Director)inTim Miller(Co-founder & CEO)inMichael Lieberman(Executive Officer, Director)in
Co-investorsGlasswing VenturesJ2 Ventures
Mem is an AI note-taking and personal-agent app that captures notes, meetings and research and resurfaces them as context.
Los Altos, US
Kevin Moody(Founder)
Co-investorsAndreessen HorowitzDreamers VCFloodgateMotive ForceShrug Capital
Neon offers a serverless Postgres database platform with features like advanced autoscaling, instant git-like branching, built-in authentication, and point-in-time recovery, aimed at developers and AI engineering workloads.
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
Co-investorsMVP VenturesAndreessen HorowitzKraftonRenegade Partners
Octave provides a structured GTM (go-to-market) context layer that stores a company's ICP, positioning, messaging, personas, and competitive intel in a machine-readable form for AI agents and growth workflows.
AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaSSales TechSan Francisco, US
Zach Vidibor(Founder)in
Co-investorsBonfire VenturesGreycroftObvious Ventures
OLOID provides passwordless authentication and identity access management for frontline and deskless workers using biometrics, badges, NFC, and device-based verification on shared devices, kiosks, and time clocks.
CybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSunnyvale, US
Mohit Garg(Executive Officer, Director)Madhu Madhusudhanan(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardGregg Adkin(Director)inAnupam Rastogi(Director)in
Co-investorsEMERGENT VENTURESSeraph GroupYaletown PartnersDell Technologies CapitalHoneywell VenturesOkta Ventures
Ordr provides a device intelligence and network security platform that identifies and protects connected assets across cloud, on-premises, and SaaS environments.
Cloud ComputingCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareIoT
Co-investorsBattery VenturesKaiser Permanente VenturesTen ElevenWing
OrthoFX makes AirFlex clear dental aligners built with a patented HyperElastic polymer that delivers lower, sustained force for orthodontic treatment.
ConsumerHealthtechMedical DevicesFremont, US
Nichole Garcia(Founder)Ren Menon(Founder)inHenry Chan(Founder)in
Co-investorsXRCShangBay Capital LLCSignalFire
Orum offers an AI-powered dialing and coaching platform that helps sales development teams run cold calling as a system, maximizing live conversations by detecting who answered first, optimizing connect rates, and providing coaching insights.
AI & Machine LearningSaaSSales TechSan Francisco, US
Karthik Viswanathan(Executive Officer, Director)Jason Dorfman(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardAyush Sood(Director)
Co-investorsAccelBain Capital VenturesBoxGroupCanapi VenturesHomebrewInspired Capital+2 more
Paxton is an AI assistant for legal professionals that conducts legal research, drafts documents, and analyzes documents, identifying relevant case law and regulations.
AI & Machine LearningLegalTechSaaS
Co-investors25MadisonFlori VenturesKyber Knight CapitalVoyager CapitalIdentity.vc
Portrait is an AI-powered investment research platform that processes filings, transcripts, and news to help investment firms discover companies, conduct deep research, and monitor investment theses.
AI & Machine LearningFintechSaaS
Co-investors.406 Ventures
Portrait is an AI research platform for investment analysts that turns filings, transcripts, and news into structured, fully-cited research reports, qualitative-plus-quantitative idea screens, and always-on thesis monitoring.
AI & Machine LearningFintechSaaS
PostHog is a product analytics and data platform offering multiple integrated tools for product engineers, including analytics, experimentation, and customer data management.
Data & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
James Hawkins(Founder)inTim Glaser(Founder)in
Co-investors1984 Ventures Management, LlcFormus CapitalPeak XV PartnersStandard CapitalValkyrie Ventures Management, LlcY Combinator+4 more
Purple Dot provides a platform that lets ecommerce retailers sell inventory on pre-order before stock arrives at the warehouse, keeping pre-orders separate from 3PL/WMS systems until stock lands.
E-commerceRetail TechSaaS
Co-investorsMoxxie Ventures
Qdrant is an open-source vector search engine built in Rust for AI retrieval, supporting hybrid dense-sparse search, metadata filtering, quantization, and reranking.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
Co-investors42CAPBosch VenturesCaesar VenturesRobert Bosch Venture CapitalSpark Capital
Railway is a cloud deployment platform that connects to a code repository and handles build, configuration, networking (SSL, load balancing, public/private endpoints), scaling, and observability.
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
Jake Cooper(Founder)in
Co-investorsPreston-Werner VenturesTq Ventures Llc
Raylu is an AI-powered origination engine for private markets investors, designed to translate investment strategy into deal action and shorten the time between conviction and capital deployment.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintech
Ali Dastjerdi(Founder)in
Co-investorsConversion Capital
Relyance AI provides a data security platform that delivers visibility into data movements, transformations, and access across cloud, container, and code environments for security leaders and CISOs.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCybersecurityData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software
Abhi Sharma(Founder)in
Co-investorsCheyenne VenturesMenlo Ventures
Resolve AI provides AI agents that handle on-call rotations, incident investigation, and production operational tasks for software engineering teams, integrating with existing tools via MCP, API, and Skills.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Spiros Xanthos(Founder and CEO)inMayank Agarwal(Founder and CTO)inJason Forget(President & Chief Revenue Officer (founding CRO))Dhruv Mahajan(Chief AI Scientist)Brooke Daniels(Head of Enterprise and Partnerships)inBharath Gowda(Head of Marketing)in
Co-investorsDST GlobalA*Amjad MasadArtisanal VenturesGreylock PartnersSalesforce Ventures+2 more
Rive is a design and animation platform where creators build interactive experiences that run natively across web, mobile apps, games, and devices using an open-source runtime and GPU-accelerated vector graphics engine.
Creator EconomyDeveloper Tools
Guido Rosso(Founder)inCraig Sartor(Founder)in
Co-investorsAbstract VenturesAndreessen HorowitzBMW i VenturesCategory VenturesWorklife Ventures
Robinhood is a financial trading platform that enables users to manage portfolios across stocks, ETFs, cryptocurrencies, options, futures, and prediction markets.
FintechMenlo Park, US
Vlad Tenev(Co-founder & CEO)inBaiju Bhatt(Co-founder)
Co-investors1/1 CapitalAlgerAmplo VenturesAndreessen HorowitzBLN CapitalChamaeleon+40 more
Roboto is a data platform for teams working with real and synthetic robotics data, letting them organize log files, search multimodal sensor and video data, and use AI agents to surface anomalies and diagnose failures.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureRoboticsSeattle, US
Benji Barash(Founder)in
Co-investorsAllen Institute for AI (AI2) IncubatorFUSEAndreessen HorowitzTRANSCEND
AI & Machine LearningHR TechSaaSLos Angeles, US
Co-investorsOverton Venture CapitalTechstars
Socket is a developer-first platform that detects and blocks malicious packages in real time to protect organizations from software supply chain attacks.
CybersecurityDeveloper ToolsSaaSWilmington, US
Feross Aboukhadijeh(Founder)inJayant Keswani(Executive Officer)
BoardZane Lackey(Director)in
Co-investorsAbstract VenturesAndreessen HorowitzVillage GlobalThrive Capital
Sotira operates a platform connecting retailers, manufacturers, and distributors to secondary market buyers to offload and monetize unsold or perishable inventory.
B2B MarketplacesCircular EconomyE-commerceFintechLogistics & Supply ChainMarketing TechMenlo Park, US
Amrita Bhasin(CEO)inGary Kwong(CTO)in
Co-investorsRitual CapitalTechstarsK5 GlobalNight CapitalSoma Capital
Splunk offers a unified platform for security and observability that ingests and analyzes large-scale data across hybrid cloud environments.
Cloud ComputingCybersecurityData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Michael Baum(Founder)inRob Das(Founder)in
Co-investorsAkkadian VenturesAugust CapitalBattery VenturesCRV (Charles River Ventures)Lobby CapitalResolute Ventures+2 more
Stigg provides a usage runtime that decides in real time what customers, users, and AI agents are allowed to do, combining credits, entitlements, metering, and spend governance in a single enforcement layer.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsSaaSTel Aviv, IL
Anton Zagrebelny(Founder)Dor Sasson(Founder)
Co-investorsEmerge VenturesRed Dot Capital Partners
Sunshine was an AI-powered personal digital organization tool that has been acquired by Dazzle AI.
AI & Machine Learning
MarissaMarissa Mayer(Founder)in
Co-investorsIncubate USNext Legacy PartnersWebb Investment Network
Syndicate provides infrastructure to scale the Ethereum blockchain, supporting staking and development operations on the network.
Crypto & Web3Mountain View, US
William Raphael Papper(Executive Officer, Director)Ian John Lee(Executive Officer, Director)ian //(Founder)in
Co-investorsA.Capital Venturesa16z cryptoAndreessen HorowitzArchetypeAtelierBlueYard Capital+12 more
Open lakehouse storage platform by the creators of Apache Iceberg (Databricks)
Co-investorsAndreessen HorowitzSV AngelValkyrie Ventures Management, LlcAltimeter CapitalEssence Venture CapitalZetta Venture Partners
Theia builds a common ontology for financial markets, mapping thematic exposures across companies and funds so users can screen stocks and funds, create thematic indices and ETFs, and analyze portfolio risk.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureFintechSaaSBethesda, US
Ye Tian(Founder & CEO)inIsami Ito(President & CRO)inJames Thorne(CTO)in
Co-investorsClocktower VenturesFurther VenturesMiddlegame Ventures
Traceable offers a context-aware application and API security platform that automatically discovers and inventories internal, public, shadow, and third-party APIs across on-prem and cloud environments.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Jyoti Bansal(Founder)inSanjay Nagaraj
Co-investorsGeodesic CapitalIVP (Institutional Venture Partners)Citi VenturesTiger Global Management
TYB is a consumer platform where fans join brand communities to post about products, participate in challenges, and earn coins, collectibles, and rewards.
ConsumerCreator EconomySocialTucson, US
Tyler Haney(Executive Officer, Director)Ty Haney(Founder)inZachary Davies(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardRachel Star(Director)Alexander Montgomery(Director)Sean Judge(Director)
Co-investorsFermionSoGal Ventures
Vivun builds AI agents that reason through structured domain knowledge and expert mental models rather than pattern-matching.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSales TechOakland, US
Dominique D.(Founder)inDominique Darrow(Founder)in
Co-investorsAccelAtlassian VenturesMenlo VenturesSalesforce Ventures
Vizcom is an AI design platform that helps product designers generate, iterate on, and refine concepts, moving ideas from sketches to renderings for physical and virtual products.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
Kaelan Richards(Cofounder)Jordan Taylor(Cofounder)in
Co-investorsBasis Set VenturesIndex VenturesRadical Ventures
Webflow is a visual content management system and web design platform that enables creative teams to build, design, and publish brand-forward websites without heavy reliance on developers.
Developer ToolsEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Sergie Magdalin(Co-founder & Design Fellow)inVlad Magdalin(Co-founder & Chief Innovation Officer)inBryant Chou(Co-founder)inLinda Tong(Chief Executive Officer)in
Co-investorsAccelADQAltra VentureAmino CapitalBeyond CapitalBlack Angel Group+25 more
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaS
Therese Tucker(Founder & Co-CEO)
Co-investorsCanaan PartnersK5 GlobalThe Fintech FundUnpopular Ventures
Rows marked “SEC filing” are inferred from directors named on the company's SEC Form D — public regulatory data, not a portfolio list published by the firm.
Exits · 5
IPOs and acquisitions across the tracked portfolioDatadogNASDAQ: DDOGBluBracketacq. by HashiCorpSike Insightsacq. by 15FiveSunshineacq. by Dazzle AIWiseLayeracq. by BlackLine
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesHelios · energynews.pro · Aug 19, 2026
Railway · railjournal.com · Aug 18, 2026
Grain · finance.biggo.com · Aug 17, 2026
Resolve AI · Resolve AI (press release) · Aug 17, 2026
Purple · livemint.com · Aug 16, 2026
Octave · quiverquant.com · Aug 12, 2026
Rime · x.com · Aug 8, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Unusual Ventures made?
- Unusual Ventures has 65 tracked investments, 4 of which have exited via acquisition or IPO, including 7 dated in the last 24 months.
- What stage does Unusual Ventures invest at?
- Unusual Ventures invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A stages.
- What is Unusual Ventures's typical check size?
- Unusual Ventures typically writes checks of $1M – $15M.
- What sectors does Unusual Ventures focus on?
- Unusual Ventures focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Enterprise Software, SaaS, Sector Agnostic.
- Where is Unusual Ventures located?
- Unusual Ventures is headquartered in Menlo Park, US.
- Does Unusual Ventures lead rounds?
- Yes, Unusual Ventures leads investment rounds.
- Who does Unusual Ventures co-invest with?
- Unusual Ventures most often shares deals with Andreessen Horowitz, IVP (Institutional Venture Partners), Kleiner Perkins, among 294 tracked co-investors.
From the blog
visit blog ↗Unusual Ventures has recently backed three AI-focused companies: Rime, a voice synthesis platform for enterprise, Miravoice, which automates voice-based survey collection, and Theia Insights, which builds dynamic industry classification maps for financial institutions. AI summary
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Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, known for pioneering the platform model with a large team of operators supporting founders across stages.
Lightspeed is a global venture capital firm that has spent over two decades backing innovative companies as an early and first investor.
Menlo Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in transformative, early-stage AI companies across every layer of the modern AI stack, from applications and middleware to data infrastructure and foundation models.
Techstars is a startup accelerator and early-stage investor that funds ambitious founders and provides capital, mentorship, and access to a global network of investors, operators, and corporate partners.
IVP (Institutional Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm that backs breakout companies at critical inflection points, helping them grow into enduring market leaders.
Accel is a venture capital firm that partners with exceptional teams, positioning itself as a first partner to founders globally.
Greylock Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm that partners with founders building companies from inception. Its partners make only one or two new investments per year to focus deeply on each partnership.
Notable Capital is a venture capital firm that has partnered with founders for over two decades, backing companies from the earliest stages through to exit.
CRV is a venture capital firm that backs founders at the seed and Series A stages, focusing on those with deep conviction and unique insights.
Battery Ventures is a global investment firm that has backed more than 450 companies over its 40-year history, operating its investment staff as a single global unit.
Artisanal Ventures is a venture capital firm that supports founders through its network, limited partner base, and a partnership with Artisanal Talent to help portfolio companies access top executive talent.
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