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Unusual Ventures
Venture capital · Menlo Park, CA, United States · North America
Unusual Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage enterprise software companies. It works closely with technical founders, embedding operators within portfolio companies for three to twelve months to help with messaging, sales process, growth strategy, and hiring.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsenterprise softwareproduct-led growthgo-to-marketartificial intelligenceearly stage
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Or find every investor that fitsUnusual Ventures lists 71 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 20 funding rounds, 3 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 47% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (35%), Enterprise Software (15%) and Cybersecurity (12%). 87% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Andreessen Horowitz, Redpoint Ventures and Salesforce Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Unusual Ventures, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Unusual Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 19 companies; its own site lists 71. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 5% |
| Seed | 47% |
| Series A | 21% |
| Series B | 21% |
| Growth | 5% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 1 | 1 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 1 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 2 | 1 |
| '25 | 8 | 0 |
| '26 | 8 | 1 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 91th | 70 companies |
| Recent activity | 95th | 10 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 73th | 53% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 85th | 14% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 65th | 35% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 70th | 4 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 35% | 18% |
| Enterprise Software | 15% | 8% |
| Cybersecurity | 12% | 4% |
| Fintech | 9% | 12% |
| Media & Entertainment | 6% | 4% |
| Space & Defense | 5% | 3% |
| Developer Tools | 2% | 0% |
| Education | 2% | 7% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Andreessen Horowitz | 6 |
| Redpoint Ventures | 6 |
| Salesforce Ventures | 6 |
| Kleiner Perkins | 5 |
| Y Combinator | 5 |
| Capitoria | 4 |
| Clocktower Ventures | 4 |
| Draper Associates | 4 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers6997%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company23%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Andreessen Horowitz
Compare Unusual Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Unusual Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 19 Oct 2026 | Seed | |
| 27 Aug 2026 | Pre-Seed | |
| 2 Apr 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 18 Mar 2026 | Seed | |
| 12 Mar 2026 | Series B | |
| 4 Feb 2026 | Series A | |
| 2 Feb 2026 | Series A | |
| 22 Jan 2026 | Series B |
Round details for Unusual Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Unusual Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
71 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adviser makes it easy to run computational, AI, and ML workloads in the cloud | AI & Machine LearningHuman Resources | Aug 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| AirOps works with clients to set and execute the right AI discovery strategy to earn an agent's trust and drive growth for their brand. | AI & Machine LearningMedia & Entertainment | Nov 2025Series B | Page + round | |
| Alto enables investments in private equity, startups, and real estate through self-directed IRAs. | FintechReal Estate & Construction | Portfolio page | ||
| Andromede generates environments, tasks, and verifiers from real-world data for post-training and evaluation of frontier agents. | AI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Arctic Wolf provides cybersecurity services, including security operations and incident response, to protect organizations from cyber threats. | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Aurasell provides an AI-Native CRM Platform and GTM OS for sales and operations intelligence | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Aug 2025Seed | Page + round | |
| BallerTV streams live and on-demand youth sports events | Media & EntertainmentEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides a compliance platform for anti-money laundering (AML) for regulated businesses in Europe. | Fintech | Feb 2026Series A | Page + round | |
CybersecurityDeveloper Tools | Portfolio page | |||
| Carta provides an end-to-end suite for managing private capital, including equity management, fund administration, and legal operations. | FintechLegal & Compliance | Portfolio page | ||
| Chalk provides a platform for production AI, allowing users to ship and manage AI agents and models without infrastructure management. | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| CO2 AI provides a platform for companies to manage and reduce their carbon footprint using artificial intelligence | Space & DefenseIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Connectly delivers AI agents that sell to, serve and engage customers | AI & Machine LearningE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Contra operates a professional network for jobs and skills of the future | EducationEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Dashbase helps users understand their data and make better decisions with its analytics platform | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Databento provides market data APIs and solutions for firms | FintechDeveloper Tools | Portfolio page | ||
| Datadog provides a platform for monitoring and security of cloud infrastructure, applications, and data. | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Dream Labs develops a robot brain called Dream-1 that works across different robots, tasks, and environments. | Robotics & HardwareAI & Machine Learning | Oct 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Endgame compiles every call, email, meeting, and playbook a team produces into one living context graph that people and agents can act on. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- unusual.vc
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 5 Dec 2019
- Companies checked
- 71
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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