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Unusual Ventures

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Unusual Ventures is a Seed venture capital firm based in US-SF investing in Enterprise, AI / ML, SaaS. The firm typically writes $1.0M–$10.0M checks and has 62 portfolio companies in our records.

How to approach: warm intro
Stage

Seed

Check Size

$1.0M – $10.0M

AUM

$1.5B

Portfolio

62+ companies

Team

16 partners

Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0

Investment Thesis

Seed-stage venture capital for technical founders building enterprise software and applied AI with measurable ROI.

How Unusual Ventures invests

Unusual Ventures is a vc firm based in US-SF. The firm invests at the Seed stage, with a focus on Enterprise, AI / ML, SaaS, Other.

Unusual Ventures typically writes checks of $1.0M–$10.0M per investment, backed by approximately $1.5B in assets under management.

Unusual Ventures has backed 62 companies in our records, including AirOps, Alto, Produces.

Meet the Team

BT

Brett Teele

Partner

JV

John Vrionis

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Enterprise
AI
Technical Founders
CL

Calvin Ling

Director of Finance

SS

Scott Schwarzhoff

Operating Partner

NO

Niamh O'donnell

Director of Programs

JV

Jon Volk

Partner

TC

Tyler Crown

Vice President

PM

Penny Mares

Vice President of Sales

MA

Maya Anderson

Operations Associate

LS

Lauren Salinas

Executive Assistant

DD

Dan Darnell

Partner

SL

Sarah Leary

Partner

DR

Doug Regner

Partner

LA

Lars Albright

General Partner

SH

Sandhya Hegde

Partner

JB

Jyoti Bansal

Co-Founder

Enterprise Software
AI
Developer Tools

Industry Focus

Invests In

Enterprise
AI / ML
SaaS
Other

Portfolio Companies (62)

Other

AI

AirOps

AL

Alto

PR

Produces

AP

AptEdge

AR

Arctic Wolf

AI

AI-native CRM

BA

BallerTV

BA

Banyan Security

BI

Bits Technology

BL

BluBracket

How to pitch Unusual Ventures
  • Raising at Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
  • Lead with your fit in Enterprise, AI / ML, SaaS — the sectors they actively back.
  • Size your ask to their typical $1.0M – $10.0M check.
  • warm intro
  • Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Brett Teele, Partner.
  • A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.

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