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.
- 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.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 154 co-investors found.
- 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
- 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 2026-09-06 · confidence medium
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