At Unusual Ventures, we exist to back exceptional founders who are building at the center of major technology shifts — and who have the insight, drive, and technical depth to turn those shifts into enduring companies. We focus on the earliest stage, where conviction matters most, and we pour our energy into helping founders find product-market fit and build a GTM engine that can scale. That’s our craft. That’s our commitment.

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That’s also why we’re excited to announce our investment in FluidCloud.

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The cloud was supposed to give teams flexibility. In reality, cloud lock-in is still very real — especially for teams building in regulated industries, latency-sensitive domains, or across global markets. Moving workloads between AWS, GCP, Azure and others is still a slow, painful mess filled with complexity, vendor-specific plumbing, and long implementation cycles.

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FluidCloud is solving that problem at the infrastructure level. Their cloud cloning platform makes true workload portability possible: no rewrites, no rebuilds, no professional services. Just speed, control, and freedom. Early customers like Atlassian are already seeing the upside: meaningful cost savings, faster iteration cycles, and better availability. It’s the kind of infrastructure shift that doesn’t just optimize operations — it expands what’s possible. 

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This capability is already valuable — but it’s about to become essential. As we enter the age of agentic AI, workloads will be more dynamic, decentralized, and responsive than ever. They will need to move — frequently and intelligently — based on cost, latency, performance, and availability. In that future, FluidCloud’s platform looks less like an optimization and more like a prerequisite.

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That’s the kind of insight we look for — one born from first principles thinking and rooted in a real inflection. And it’s exactly what Sharad Kumar and the FluidCloud team have. Sharad, Harshit, and James are accomplished founders and builders who’ve already built and scaled successful companies. They know how critical it is to get the foundation right — to focus early on product-market fit and build a sales motion that doesn’t just close deals, but compounds over time. That’s what makes this partnership with Unusual such a strong fit.

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They also represent what we look for in founders: world-class technical ability, product intuition, the ability to tell a clear story — and just as importantly, the personality traits that sustain a startup through hard times: optimism, competitiveness, and persistence.

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We’re proud to lead the seed round for FluidCloud. If they’re right — and we believe they are — they’ll redefine what infrastructure needs to look like in the AI era.