Eynat Guez on Papaya Global’s journey to PMF
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Why we’re leading Helios $4m Seed Round
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The beginning is beautiful – don’t rush to prove something
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Why we’re doubling down on Chalk
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Unusual Ventures welcomes Brett Teele as Chief Financial Officer
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Crossing the enterprise chasm and into the mainstream: Lessons from Geoffrey Moore
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A warm welcome to Jill Puente, our new Chief Marketing Officer!
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Our Series B investment in global payments innovator Navro
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Congratulations to Relyance AI on the launch of Data Journeys!
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Jyoti Bansal on how Traceable found product-market fit
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How startups can benefit from the Innovator’s Dilemma: 3 lessons from Clay Christensen
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Pattern Breakers can reshape the future: 4 insights for startup founders
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It’s not about perfection: Your Annual Operating Plan is a learning framework
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How Paxton built its legal AI assistant: An Unusual Academy case study
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Success is not a Zero-Sum Game: 5 Lessons from Adam Grant’s ‘Give and Take’
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Why we’re leading Paxton’s $22 million Series A round
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5 Reasons Enterprise Buyers Will Invest in Your AI Solution
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Why enterprise startup founders shouldn’t rush into hiring their first sales leader
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Why we invested in GovSignals: the AI platform for Government Contracting
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Ideas that are Made to Stick: 6 principles from Chip and Dan Heath
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Building an AI Startup? 5 Reflections on the two-year Anniversary of GPT-3
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How to hire (and lead) people who think like owners
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Goldcast CEO Palash Soni on AI-powered Enterprise Video Campaigns
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Is your startup idea good? 5 takeaways from Rob Fitzpatrick’s Mom Test
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Relyance AI’s series B — Helping Enterprises Achieve Trust with Confidence
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Why we invested in AirOps
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Samantha Mckenna on why solving customer problems is the best sales strategy
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Small changes can be transformative: 3 takeaways from Atomic Habits by James Clear
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Software startups should embrace unreasonable hospitality: 3 takeaways from Relyance AI’s Abhi Sharma
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Connectly’s Series B — Building the future of AI-powered conversational commerce
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Unreasonable Hospitality is good business: 5 lessons from Will Guidara
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Want to understand the elements of a strong business? Think of it as a 3-layer cake!
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Are you building a visionary company? What we learned from ‘Built to Last’ by Collins and Porras
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Why we’re leading EnFi’s $7.5m seed round
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Starting an M&A process? 10 tips to increase your situational awareness
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Why we were the first investors in Tobiko Data
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Don’t Settle for “good”: 3 Lessons from ‘Good to Great’ by Jim Collins
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Selling AI to Big Enterprises: A Conversation with Joel Hron at Thomson Reuters
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From sales skeptic to expert: 4 steps for new founders
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Why we’re leading Theia Insights’ $6.5m seed round
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Why values-driven leadership matters: 5 takeaways from Hometap’s Jeff Glass
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Why we co-led Chalk’s seed round
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4 areas Gen AI will impact the knowledge worker in asset and wealth management
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How do you Navigate AI Security in an Evolving Landscape?
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Founders have 30 minutes to nail their pitch. Here’s how to ace the pace.
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CO2 AI: The future of sustainability management software
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LLMs in security: What are the opportunities for startups?
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Why we’re leading Portrait Analytics’ $7m Seed round
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Whose responsibility is responsible AI?
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The race for identity verification and onboarding is on! How will Generative AI make an impact?
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How to find product market fit: the counterintuitive secrets
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How is AI Changing the way Software is Developed?
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How good is your language model? Nobody knows yet
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The tug-of-war between lighthouse customers and your product roadmap
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What will the security stack for generative AI applications look like?
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Apply for Unusual’s Summer AI studio
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Why we’re leading Vizcom AI’s $5M Seed round
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Celebrating 5 years of Unusual Ventures
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Why we led Qdrant’s $7.5M Seed round
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Investing in Roboto: copilot for robotics data
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This is what AI builders should know about data protection and privacy
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Unlocking commerce across borders: Why we’re leading Navro’s $18.3M Series A
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DataStax CEO Chet Kapoor on mastering the art of the no-look pass
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Here’s why founders should do customer discovery
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With $53M raise, Descope is poised to lead the passwordless future for developers
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How Harness found product-market fit: Jyoti Bansal on striking gold with customer discovery
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Generative AI is blowing up. What does this mean for cybersecurity?
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4 fintech and SaaS areas primed for growth in 2023 despite tough macroeconomics
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Can’t find a business mentor? Try the ‘Rule of 10’ instead
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CEO Rapidfire: Learnings from Ali Ghodsi, co-founder & CEO Of Databricks, on the journey to $1B+ ARR
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Lessons from Flywire’s journey to multibillion–dollar valuation
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How Vivun raised a Seed round
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Andy Rachleff on coining the term product-market fit
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Core fintech themes and advice for founders in today’s market
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13 of The Most Inspiring Books for Startup Founders
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Where’s the Series A market now?
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The benefits of being Unusual: Why I joined Unusual Ventures
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Introducing Unusual Ventures Boston
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Reimagining loyalty: Our investment in TYB
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Heartex’s $25M Series A
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Announcing $485M Unusual Ventures Fund III
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Unlocking omnichannel: Our investment in Lucky
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Loyalty 3.0: Where consumers become owners
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Unusual Insights for founders building a self-service motion
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What are the best tools for startup founders?
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Reimagining B2B marketing with Goldcast
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Building momentum: why I have joined Unusual Ventures
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Rewriting the rules of retail: our investment in Purple Dot
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Building and scaling a growth team — Key insights from Andy Johns’ new 20 Minute VC interview
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Unusual Founder’s Video Series: Fundraising at Series A and How to Choose an Investor
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Congratulating Sarah Leary on a founder’s milestone!
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Operator insights: How to Pick the Right “0-1” Sales Role
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Giving Data Privacy Professionals real-Time insights — our Seed and Series A in Relyance AI
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Ready to join an early-stage startup as their first sales lead?
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How Carta won their first 100 customers
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Robinhood’s IPO: Democratizing Finance for All
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Automating and Scaling Inside Sales Teams—Our Series A in Orum
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Styra’s Unusual Journey
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Traceable’s Unusual Journey
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Contra’s Unusual Journey
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An Unusual Journey: Grateful After Three Years
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Unusual Founder’s Video Series: The Guide to Fundraising
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Unusual Participates in $12M Series A in BluBracket: Securing Code in a Software-Driven World
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Seed Stage Founders: The Current Market for Series A Financings
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Alto—Raising the Bar for the Self-Directed IRA Industry
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Deep Collaboration in the Enterprise: Till Pieper, Max Andaker, and Jason Thomas, Co-Founders, CoScreen
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Sitting Down with Next Play Perspectives Podcast
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Unleashing Deep Collaboration for Engineering Teams — Our Seed in CoScreen
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Introducing Unusual Spark — Our Pre-Seed Program to Support Founders from Day Zero
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Powering the Future of Independent Work — Our Series A in Contra
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Five Emerging Trends in AI
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Our Continued Partnership with Vivun
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Three Common Pitfalls of AI Pitches
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Jyoti Bansal — An Inspiration for Us All
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Unusual Roundtable Takeaways: Data Lineage and its Role in Data Unification
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Arrikto—Unlocking the Acceleration Potential of Machine Learning Ops in the Enterprise
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Unusual Tech: Workflow Orchestration White Paper
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Vivun—Empowering Presales Teams to be the Heroes of the Enterprise
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Making the Pivot: The Unusual Founder Workshop Series
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Traceable—Protecting Cloud-Native Applications and APIs from Modern Cybersecurity Threats
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Presales Champions: Matt Darrow, Dominique Darrow, John Bruce, and Claire Bruce, Co-Founders, Vivun
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Announcing the Unusual Guide for Raising Seed and Series A Capital
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GitHub’s CTO Jason Warner on Managing Remote Teams
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Best Practices for Running Remote Teams
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Ride Report — Bridging the Gap in Micromobility
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Sales Connector: Jason Dorfman, Co-Founder and CEO, Orum
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BluBracket — Securing Code in a Software-Driven World
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Kloud.io — Democratizing Data Access for Financial Analysts
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20 Minute VC: My ‘Unusual’ Conversation with Harry Stebbings
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Vivun — Unleashing the Power of Presales in the Enterprise
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Banyan — Securing the Enterprise with Zero Trust Remote Access
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Raising the Bar Even Higher for Seed Stage Founders
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Styra — Expanding Open Source and Commercial Solutions for Kubernetes/Cloud-Native Security
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Recruiting to Win at the Seed Stage
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Shujinko — Simplifying Cloud Compliance
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Playing to Win: Aaron Hawkey and Robert Angarita, Co-Founders, BallerTV
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Splunk Acquires Omnition.io, Unusual’s First Investment
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Early Education Crusader: Chris Bennett, Co-Founder and CEO of Wonderschool
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The Rage to Master: The One Unusual Thing All Entrepreneurs Must Have to Win
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Unusual Academy: Empowering Founders to Learn by Doing
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