Unusual Ventures
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Unusual Ventures is a venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage enterprise startups, particularly those founded by technical founders. They emphasize a hands-on approach to helping founders achieve product-market fit.
Unusual Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Menlo Park, United States, founded in 2017. It invests directly in companies, from seed to Series A, in enterprise, AI, cybersecurity and infrastructure.
“For enterprise founders — from first insight to market leadership”
— Unusual Ventures, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- Menlo Park, United States
- Sectors
- enterprise, AI, cybersecurity, infrastructure
- Founded
- 2017
Team, as Unusual Ventures publishes it
- John Vrionis Co-Founder & Managing Partner
- Jyoti Bansal Co-Founder & Entrepreneur Partner
- Lars Albright General Partner
- Sandhya Hegde Venture Partner
- Sarah Leary Venture Partner
- Nick Landolfi Vice President
- Henry Buckingham Vice President
- Jon Volk Talent Partner
- Jared Waxman Operating Partner
- Penny Mares Vice President, Sales & GTM
Names and roles exactly as listed on unusual.vc. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 154 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- Menlo Ventures 4 shared companies: endgame.io, vivun.com, harness.io, relyance.ai
- Hercules Adviser LLC 3 shared companies: arcticwolf.com, harness.io, rive.app
- Palo Alto Growth Capital 3 shared companies: arcticwolf.com, robinhood.com, harness.io
- Index Ventures 3 shared companies: ballertv.com, robinhood.com, vizcom.ai
- IVP 3 shared companies: robinhood.com, datadoghq.com, harness.io
- ClearSky Advisors LLC 2 shared companies: arcticwolf.com, harness.io
- Evolution Equity Partners 2 shared companies: arcticwolf.com, blubracket.com
- Lightspeed Venture Partners 2 shared companies: arcticwolf.com, descope.com
- Rally Ventures Management, LLC 2 shared companies: arcticwolf.com, harness.io
- SYN Ventures 2 shared companies: arcticwolf.com, harness.io
and 144 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Unusual Ventures publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.unusual.vc/name, is_investor, layer, type, stage_min, stage_max, description, thesis_quote
- https://www.unusual.vc/portfolio/sectors
- https://www.unusual.vc/our-story/thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, founded
- https://www.unusual.vc/team/people
- https://www.sec.gov/data-research/sec-markets-data/information-about-registered-investment-advisers-exempt-reporting-advisershq_country, hq_city
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Record 1327 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence medium
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