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The early stage journey is where we shine. Discover how we empower our founders to succeed.

Giving data privacy professionals real-time insights — our Seed and Series A in Relyance AI

September 15, 2021

Ready to join an early-stage startup as their first sales lead?

September 8, 2021

Providing founders with deep support: the first Operator in Residence

September 2, 2021

Compensation: Tactics to Hire and Retain in a Competitive Market

September 1, 2021

How Carta won their first 100 customers

August 19, 2021

Powering Product-Led Sales: Alex Bilmes, Co-Founder, Endgame

Laura Spaventa Lewis

August 18, 2021

The Enterprise Approach to Product-led Growth

Robinhood’s IPO: Democratizing Finance for All

Automating and Scaling Inside Sales Teams—Our Series A in Orum

Styra’s Unusual Journey

Sales Recruiting: How to Find a “Revenue-Driving Product Manager” as Your First Sales Hire

Betting on Endgame

Traceable’s Unusual Journey

Delivering the Feature Store for Cloud Native Databases—Our Series A in Rasgo

Entrepreneur’s How Success Happens Podcast Recap

Amplifying the Impact of Data Scientists: Jared Parker and Patrick Dougherty, Co-Founders, Rasgo

Laura Spaventa Lewis

Organizing Customer Success for a Modern GTM Strategy

Contra’s Unusual Journey

An Unusual Journey: Grateful After Three Years

Unusual Founder’s Video Series: The Guide to Fundraising

Unusual Participates in $12M Series A in BluBracket: Securing Code in a Software-Driven World

Seed Stage Founders: The Current Market for Series A Financings

The Future of Communication

How to Test your B2B Startup Idea

Alto—Raising the Bar for the Self-Directed IRA Industry

Deep Collaboration in the Enterprise: Till Pieper, Max Andaker, and Jason Thomas, Co-Founders, CoScreen

Laura Spaventa Lewis

Sitting Down with Next Play Perspectives Podcast

Unleashing Deep Collaboration for Engineering Teams — Our Seed in CoScreen

Introducing Unusual Spark — Our Pre-Seed Program to Support Founders from Day Zero

Powering the Future of Independent Work — Our Series A in Contra

February 23, 2021

How to Find the Next Big Business Idea

February 16, 2021

Five Emerging Trends in AI

February 11, 2021

Our Continued Partnership with Vivun

February 10, 2021

Three Common Pitfalls of AI Pitches

February 10, 2021

Jyoti Bansal — An Inspiration for Us All

January 15, 2021

Unusual Roundtable Takeaways: Data Lineage and its Role in Data Unification

January 14, 2021

Unusual Ventures Welcomes Sandhya Hegde

December 8, 2020

Sunshine—Shining a Light on Contacts and our Everyday Connections

November 18, 2020

Arrikto—Unlocking the Acceleration Potential of Machine Learning Ops in the Enterprise

November 16, 2020

Introducing The Unusual Ventures Founder Portal

November 2, 2020

Unusual Tech: Workflow Orchestration White Paper

October 21, 2020

Vivun—Empowering Presales Teams to be the Heroes of the Enterprise

October 14, 2020

Shujinko— Simplifying, Automating, and Modernizing Audit Preparation

October 13, 2020

Democratizing Data: Krishna Bhat and Sathish Raju, Co-Founders, Kloudio

Laura Spaventa Lewis

August 26, 2020

Unusual Tech: Serverless White Paper

Making the Pivot: The Unusual Founder Workshop Series

Traceable—Protecting Cloud-Native Applications and APIs from Modern Cybersecurity Threats

Making Micromobility Work: William Henderson, Founder and CEO, Ride Report

Laura Spaventa Lewis

Venturing into VC

Presales Champions: Matt Darrow, Dominique Darrow, John Bruce, and Claire Bruce, Co-Founders, Vivun

Laura Spaventa Lewis

Announcing the Unusual Guide for Raising Seed and Series A Capital

Putting the Security in CyberSecurity: Prakash Linga and Ajay Arora, Co-Founders, BluBracket

Laura Spaventa Lewis

Cooking up Remote Team Camaraderie

Laura Spaventa Lewis

GitHub’s CTO Jason Warner on Managing Remote Teams

GitHub’s CTO Jason Warner on Leading Remote Teams Through Times of Uncertainty

Introducing The Unusual Method

Best Practices for Running Remote Teams

Ride Report — Bridging the Gap in Micromobility

Sales Connector: Jason Dorfman, Co-Founder and CEO, Orum

Laura Spaventa Lewis

Unusual Ventures Welcomes Noah Carr and Bill Hodak

February 26, 2020

BluBracket — Securing Code in a Software-Driven World

February 19, 2020

Kloud.io — Democratizing Data Access for Financial Analysts

January 30, 2020

Our First SF Product Leaders Meetup

January 9, 2020

Unusual Academy Recap: Our First Consumer Academy

December 18, 2019

20 Minute VC: My ‘Unusual’ Conversation with Harry Stebbings

December 9, 2019

Vivun — Unleashing the Power of Presales in the Enterprise

November 26, 2019

Banyan — Securing the Enterprise with Zero Trust Remote Access

November 22, 2019

Raising the Bar Even Higher for Seed Stage Founders

November 18, 2019

Styra — Expanding Open Source and Commercial Solutions for Kubernetes/Cloud-Native Security

November 12, 2019

Honoring Our Unusual Veterans

Laura Spaventa Lewis

November 11, 2019

Bringing Structure to the Fitness Studio: Amira Polack, Founder and CEO, Struct Club

Laura Spaventa Lewis

November 5, 2019

Recruiting to Win at the Seed Stage

Jayanth Gummaraju

October 24, 2019

The PhD of Open Source Policy: Tim Hinrichs, Co-Founder, Styra

Laura Spaventa Lewis

October 16, 2019

Shujinko — Simplifying Cloud Compliance

October 8, 2019

Boss Moms: Sara Mauskopf and Anne Halsall, Co-Founders of Winnie

Laura Spaventa Lewis

October 1, 2019

Five Ways Early Stage Technical Founders Can Master the Art of Sales

September 24, 2019

Playing to Win: Aaron Hawkey and Robert Angarita, Co-Founders, BallerTV

Laura Spaventa Lewis

September 5, 2019

Splunk Acquires Omnition.io, Unusual’s First Investment

September 4, 2019

Early Education Crusader: Chris Bennett, Co-Founder and CEO of Wonderschool

Laura Spaventa Lewis

August 27, 2019

What’s Unusual about Unusual Ventures?

August 22, 2019

The Man Behind the Smile: Ren Menon, Co-Founder and CEO of OrthoFX

Laura Spaventa Lewis

August 20, 2019

Three Things Seed Stage Founders Need Most from VCs

August 14, 2019

The Rage to Master: The One Unusual Thing All Entrepreneurs Must Have to Win

Fall Unusual Academy Applications are Officially Open!

Laura Spaventa Lewis

Unusual Academy: Empowering Founders to Learn by Doing

Ready to join an early-stage startup as their first sales lead?

September 8, 2021

Providing founders with deep support: the first Operator in Residence

September 2, 2021

Compensation: Tactics to Hire and Retain in a Competitive Market

September 1, 2021

The Enterprise Approach to Product-led Growth

Sales Recruiting: How to Find a “Revenue-Driving Product Manager” as Your First Sales Hire

Entrepreneur’s How Success Happens Podcast Recap

Organizing Customer Success for a Modern GTM Strategy

An Unusual Journey: Grateful After Three Years

Unusual Founder’s Video Series: The Guide to Fundraising

Seed Stage Founders: The Current Market for Series A Financings

The Future of Communication

How to Test your B2B Startup Idea

Sitting Down with Next Play Perspectives Podcast

Introducing Unusual Spark — Our Pre-Seed Program to Support Founders from Day Zero

How to Find the Next Big Business Idea

February 16, 2021

Five Emerging Trends in AI

February 11, 2021

Three Common Pitfalls of AI Pitches

February 10, 2021

Jyoti Bansal — An Inspiration for Us All

January 15, 2021

Unusual Roundtable Takeaways: Data Lineage and its Role in Data Unification

January 14, 2021

Unusual Ventures Welcomes Sandhya Hegde

December 8, 2020

Introducing The Unusual Ventures Founder Portal

November 2, 2020

Unusual Tech: Workflow Orchestration White Paper

October 21, 2020

Unusual Tech: Serverless White Paper

Making the Pivot: The Unusual Founder Workshop Series

Venturing into VC

Announcing the Unusual Guide for Raising Seed and Series A Capital

Cooking up Remote Team Camaraderie

Laura Spaventa Lewis

GitHub’s CTO Jason Warner on Managing Remote Teams

GitHub’s CTO Jason Warner on Leading Remote Teams Through Times of Uncertainty

Introducing The Unusual Method

Best Practices for Running Remote Teams

Unusual Ventures Welcomes Noah Carr and Bill Hodak

February 26, 2020

Our First SF Product Leaders Meetup

January 9, 2020

Unusual Academy Recap: Our First Consumer Academy

December 18, 2019

20 Minute VC: My ‘Unusual’ Conversation with Harry Stebbings

December 9, 2019

Raising the Bar Even Higher for Seed Stage Founders

November 18, 2019

Honoring Our Unusual Veterans

Laura Spaventa Lewis

November 11, 2019

What’s Unusual about Unusual Ventures?

August 22, 2019

Three Things Seed Stage Founders Need Most from VCs

August 14, 2019

The Rage to Master: The One Unusual Thing All Entrepreneurs Must Have to Win

Fall Unusual Academy Applications are Officially Open!

Laura Spaventa Lewis

Unusual Academy: Empowering Founders to Learn by Doing

Giving data privacy professionals real-time insights — our Seed and Series A in Relyance AI

September 15, 2021

How Carta won their first 100 customers

August 19, 2021

Powering Product-Led Sales: Alex Bilmes, Co-Founder, Endgame

Laura Spaventa Lewis

August 18, 2021

Robinhood’s IPO: Democratizing Finance for All

Automating and Scaling Inside Sales Teams—Our Series A in Orum

Styra’s Unusual Journey

Betting on Endgame

Traceable’s Unusual Journey

Delivering the Feature Store for Cloud Native Databases—Our Series A in Rasgo

Amplifying the Impact of Data Scientists: Jared Parker and Patrick Dougherty, Co-Founders, Rasgo

Laura Spaventa Lewis

Contra’s Unusual Journey

Unusual Participates in $12M Series A in BluBracket: Securing Code in a Software-Driven World

Alto—Raising the Bar for the Self-Directed IRA Industry

Deep Collaboration in the Enterprise: Till Pieper, Max Andaker, and Jason Thomas, Co-Founders, CoScreen

Laura Spaventa Lewis

Unleashing Deep Collaboration for Engineering Teams — Our Seed in CoScreen

Powering the Future of Independent Work — Our Series A in Contra

February 23, 2021

Our Continued Partnership with Vivun

February 10, 2021

Sunshine—Shining a Light on Contacts and our Everyday Connections

November 18, 2020

Arrikto—Unlocking the Acceleration Potential of Machine Learning Ops in the Enterprise

November 16, 2020

Vivun—Empowering Presales Teams to be the Heroes of the Enterprise

October 14, 2020

Shujinko— Simplifying, Automating, and Modernizing Audit Preparation

October 13, 2020

Democratizing Data: Krishna Bhat and Sathish Raju, Co-Founders, Kloudio

Laura Spaventa Lewis

August 26, 2020

Traceable—Protecting Cloud-Native Applications and APIs from Modern Cybersecurity Threats

Making Micromobility Work: William Henderson, Founder and CEO, Ride Report

Laura Spaventa Lewis

Presales Champions: Matt Darrow, Dominique Darrow, John Bruce, and Claire Bruce, Co-Founders, Vivun

Laura Spaventa Lewis

Putting the Security in CyberSecurity: Prakash Linga and Ajay Arora, Co-Founders, BluBracket

Laura Spaventa Lewis

Ride Report — Bridging the Gap in Micromobility

Sales Connector: Jason Dorfman, Co-Founder and CEO, Orum

Laura Spaventa Lewis

BluBracket — Securing Code in a Software-Driven World

February 19, 2020

Kloud.io — Democratizing Data Access for Financial Analysts

January 30, 2020

Vivun — Unleashing the Power of Presales in the Enterprise

November 26, 2019

Banyan — Securing the Enterprise with Zero Trust Remote Access

November 22, 2019

Styra — Expanding Open Source and Commercial Solutions for Kubernetes/Cloud-Native Security

November 12, 2019

Bringing Structure to the Fitness Studio: Amira Polack, Founder and CEO, Struct Club

Laura Spaventa Lewis

November 5, 2019

Recruiting to Win at the Seed Stage

Jayanth Gummaraju

October 24, 2019

The PhD of Open Source Policy: Tim Hinrichs, Co-Founder, Styra

Laura Spaventa Lewis

October 16, 2019

Shujinko — Simplifying Cloud Compliance

October 8, 2019

Boss Moms: Sara Mauskopf and Anne Halsall, Co-Founders of Winnie

Laura Spaventa Lewis

October 1, 2019

Five Ways Early Stage Technical Founders Can Master the Art of Sales

September 24, 2019

Playing to Win: Aaron Hawkey and Robert Angarita, Co-Founders, BallerTV

Laura Spaventa Lewis

September 5, 2019

Splunk Acquires Omnition.io, Unusual’s First Investment

September 4, 2019

Early Education Crusader: Chris Bennett, Co-Founder and CEO of Wonderschool

Laura Spaventa Lewis

August 27, 2019

The Man Behind the Smile: Ren Menon, Co-Founder and CEO of OrthoFX

Laura Spaventa Lewis

August 20, 2019