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Unusual Ventures

Founders John Vrionis Jyoti Bansal

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Total investments 120
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$16M
Portfolio companies 81
Rounds per year 20.00
Lead investments 15
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.31
Exits 2
Key employees 5
Stages of investment
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Cyber Security
  • SaaS
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Qdrant

Software
$28M23 Jan 2024 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Kusari

$8M02 Jan 2024 Ridgefield, Connecticut, United States

Chalk

Big Data
Machine Learning
Productivity Tools
Software
$10M12 Dec 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Paxton AI

Artificial Intelligence
Legal
Legal Tech
$6M19 Sep 2023 Portland, Oregon, United States

Socket

Cloud Security
Cyber Security
Developer Tools
Internet
Open Source
Security
Software
$20M01 Aug 2023 -

Portrait Analytics

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Financial Services
Market Research
$7M20 Jul 2023 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

AptEdge

Analytics
CRM
SaaS
$11M14 Jun 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Bits Technology

Financial Services
FinTech
$4M27 Apr 2023 Stockholm, Södermanland, Sweden

Qdrant

Software
$7M19 Apr 2023 Berlin, Berlin, Germany
News
Socratic nabs $3M seed to build data-driven task management system for developers

– Socratic, an early-stage startup that wants to bring data to bear on a developer-focused task management system, announced a $3m seed investment from Unusual Ventures, Overtime.vc and a couple of industry angels.
– The company is also opening up public beta of the software starting today.
– Company co-founder and CEO Nolan Wright says that he wants to build a new kind of task management system by using data to drive decisions.
– “Socratic is the first task management system that has been built from the ground up to use data and data science to help individuals and teams work better,” Wright explained.
– It does this by letting developers work as they normally do, while Socratic works behind the scenes tracking all the critical data.

Relyance AI scores $25M Series A to ensure privacy compliance at the code level

– Relyance AI, an early-stage startup that is helping companies stay in compliance with privacy laws at the code level, announced a $25m Series A.
Menlo Ventures and Unusual Ventures led the round.
– Serial entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal from Unusual will join the board under the terms of the deal.
– Matt Murphy from Menlo is coming on as a board observer.
– The company has now raised $30m.

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Total investments 120
Average round size 16M
Rounds per year 20.00
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 15
Follow on index 0.31
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.93

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Qdrant

Software
$28M23 Jan 2024 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Kusari

$8M02 Jan 2024 Ridgefield, Connecticut, United States

Chalk

Big Data
Machine Learning
Productivity Tools
Software
$10M12 Dec 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Paxton AI

Artificial Intelligence
Legal
Legal Tech
$6M19 Sep 2023 Portland, Oregon, United States

Socket

Cloud Security
Cyber Security
Developer Tools
Internet
Open Source
Security
Software
$20M01 Aug 2023 -

Portrait Analytics

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Financial Services
Market Research
$7M20 Jul 2023 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

AptEdge

Analytics
CRM
SaaS
$11M14 Jun 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Bits Technology

Financial Services
FinTech
$4M27 Apr 2023 Stockholm, Södermanland, Sweden

Qdrant

Software
$7M19 Apr 2023 Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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