Unusual Ventures
Venture capitalMenlo Park · Pre-Seed–Series A · 29 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 at the earliest stages, aiming to move product-market fit from improbable to inevitable. The firm emphasizes a proprietary, hands-on playbook to help founders identify product-market fit and scale from first insight to market leadership. Its investment activity, reflected in recent seed and Series A deals in AI infrastructure and enterprise software, centers on supporting technology companies building for enterprise customers.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Team · 29 people
from the firm's website & public directoriesWhat they invest in
from 32 of 83 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×17Enterprise Software ×12SaaS ×12Developer Tools ×10Cybersecurity ×8Data & Infrastructure ×8Cloud Computing ×6Fintech ×5
HQs:United States×25
Investments · 83 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathDatadog is a cloud-based monitoring and security platform that provides observability, analytics, and protection for infrastructure, applications, and data across enterprises.
Cloud ComputingCybersecurityData & InfrastructureNew York, US
Olivier Pomel(Founder & CEO)inAlexis Le-Quoc(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Amit Agarwal(Executive Officer)Murat Bicer(Director)Dev Ittycheria(Director)Shardul Shah(Director)
Automated process for investing in alternatives with IRA savings.
Nashville, US
William Guttman(Director)Ammar Hanafi(Director)Eric Satz(Executive Officer, Director)
Board seatSarah Leary· per SEC Form D · $39.9M raise · filed Jan 2022
Athens, US
Konstantinos Venetsanopoulos(Executive Officer, Director)Athanasios Kalekos(Director)
Board seatJohn Vrionis· per SEC Form D
San Jose, US
Board seatJohn Vrionis· per SEC Form D · $966K raise · filed Jul 2024
San Francisco, US
Board seatSarah Leary· per SEC Form D · $14.2M raise · filed Feb 2021
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
Board seatJohn Vrionis· per SEC Form D · $37.6M raise · filed May 2021
New 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 · $5.5M raise · filed Sep 2024
Kirkland, US
Hao Lu(Executive Officer, Director)Wei Lien Dang(Director)Bing Xu(Executive Officer, Director)
Board seatWei Lien Dang· per SEC Form D · $3.8M raise · filed Apr 2023
London
Neil Kinnon(Executive Officer)James Deane(Executive Officer)Kelly Hartman(Executive Officer)George Alexander Davies(Director)Michael Southgate(Executive Officer)Hutchins Robert(Director)
Board seatLars Albright· per SEC Form D · $6.7M raise · filed May 2025
New York, US
John Vrionis(Director)Jared Parker(Executive Officer, Director)Charles Patrick Dougherty(Executive Officer, Director)
Board seatJohn Vrionis· per SEC Form D · $5M raise · filed Jul 2020
San Francisco, US
Ares Geovanos(Director)Morgan Blumberg(Director)Lily Clifford(Executive Officer, Director)Sandhya Hedge(Director)
Board seatJohn Vrionis· per SEC Form D
San Francisco, US
ALEXANDER HALLIDAY(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)MIKE DUBOE(Director)MATTHEW HAMMEL(Director, Promoter)SANDHYA HEGDE(Director)
Board seatSandhya Hegde· per SEC Form D · $40M raise · filed Nov 2025
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)
Vault Radar is a product on the HashiCorp Cloud Platform that automates the detection and identification of unmanaged secrets, personally identifiable information (PII), and non-inclusive language in code to help security and development teams remediate risks.
CybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
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 SoftwareFintechSaaS<UNKNOWN>
Henry Ward(Co-founder)Manu Kumar(Co-founder)Charly Kevers(Chief Financial Officer)Jeff Perry(Chief Revenue Officer)Nick Avery(Chief People Officer)Nicole Baer(Chief Marketing Officer)
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)Jennifer Li(Director)Glenn Solomon(Director)
Goldcast provides AI-powered video content creation and management tools that transform long-form videos into production-ready clips, blogs, and social content for go-to-market teams.
AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechNew York, US
Kishore Kothandaraman(Cofounder)Sumir Chadha(Director)Palash Soni(Executive Officer, Director)
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
Hallow is a mobile app that offers guided contemplative and meditative prayer techniques rooted in Catholic tradition.
ConsumerWellness & Fitness
Alex Jones(CEO)
Kusari provides visibility and remediation across software supply chains through vulnerability detection, dependency mapping, and automated fixes.
CybersecurityDeveloper ToolsSaaSRidgefield, US
Parth Patel(Executive Officer, Director)Tim Miller(Executive Officer, Director)Michael Lieberman(Executive Officer, Director)
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.
Frequently asked questions
- 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.
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
Media · Podcasts & interviews
featuring the teamWhy Unusual Ventures is betting on AI-driven workflow design| John Vrionis x Kia Ghorashi
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How Founders Should Approach M&A w/ Lars Albright | Unusual Ventures
Entrepreneurship Handbook · Lars Albright
From Idea to PMF: Founder Stories with Unusual Ventures
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Startup Field Guide: Eynat Guez on how Papaya Global found product-market fit
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Startup Field Guide: Vijay Tella on how Workato found product-market fit
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