Unusual Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Menlo Park, United States

Total investments

128

Average round size

16M

Portfolio companies

86

Rounds per year

21.33

Lead investments

19

Follow on index

0.32

Exits

2

Stages of investment
Seed
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningSaaSEnterprise SoftwareCyber SecurityDeveloper Tools

Summary

Unusual Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2018. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Menlo Park. The company was established in North America in United States.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Unusual Ventures, startups are often financed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Afore Capital, Redpoint. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Lightspeed Venture Partners, Wing Venture Capital, SignalFire. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Shasta Ventures, Golub Capital, Defy Ventures.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Delivery, Cloud Computing. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Arctic Wolf Networks, CloudBees, Visor.

This organization was formed by John Vrionis, Jyoti Bansal. The overall number of key employees were 5.

Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The high activity for fund was in 2019. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 5 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. When the investment is from Unusual Ventures the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
AI/Big DataCybersecurityB2B/EnterpriseDeveloper ToolsFintech Show 1 more
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
AlbaniaAustraliaAustriaBelgiumBosnia and Herzegovina Show 52 more
Check size
1M — 15M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 485000000
Fund raised date
2022-05-05

Analytics

Total investments
128
Lead investments
19
Exits
2
Rounds per year
21.33
Follow on index
0.32
Investments by industry
  • Software (59)
  • Information Technology (28)
  • Artificial Intelligence (24)
  • Cyber Security (20)
  • SaaS (14)
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Investments by region
  • United States (109)
  • United Kingdom (7)
  • Germany (2)
  • Israel (1)
  • Sweden (1)
Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
4
Number of Decacorns
4
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
4
Avg. valuation at time of investment
250M
Group Appearance index
0.91
Avg. company exit year
2
Strategy success index
0.80

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Latest deals

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