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    Unusual Ventures

    Menlo Park, California, United StatesFounded 2018
    www.unusual.vcLinkedIn
    AIEnterprise SoftwareSaaSFintechCybersecurityInfrastructure & Cloud

    Unusual Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California, founded in 2018 by John Vrionis and Jyoti Bansal. The firm leads seed rounds in enterprise software startups, with a focus on infrastructure, SaaS, fintech, and AI, providing hands-on operational support to help founders achieve product-market fit.

    Average disclosed round size is $37.2M (across 124 rounds with reported amounts).

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    Portfolio

    90

    Fund Size

    $485M

    Top Stage

    Seed

    Last 12 Mo

    9

    Team

    JV

    John Vrionis

    Co-Founder & Managing Partner

    JB

    Jyoti Bansal

    Co-Founder & Entrepreneur Partner

    LS

    Lauren Salinas

    Executive Assistant to the Co-founder and Managing Partner

    LA

    Lars Albright

    General Partner

    BT

    Brett Teele

    Chief Financial Officer & Partner

    JW

    Jared Waxman

    Operating Partner

    JV

    Jon Volk

    Talent Partner

    SH

    Sandhya Hegde

    Venture Partner

    SL

    Sarah Leary

    Venture Partner

    AY

    Andy Youn

    Director of Finance

    NO

    Niamh O’Donnell

    Director of Programs

    CL

    Calvin Ling

    Vice President of Finance

    Portfolio Breakdown

    Stage Distribution

    Sector Distribution

    Investment Activity

    DealsAvg Round Size

    Portfolio

    132 investments
    CompanyRoundAmountDate
    Miravoice logoMiravoiceSeed$6.3MApr 2026
    Raven logoRavenSeed$20MMar 2026
    Qdrant logoQdrantSeries B$50MMar 2026
    Resolve Ai logoResolve AiSeries A$125MFeb 2026
    EnFi logoEnFiSeries A$15MFeb 2026
    Bits logoBitsSeries A—Feb 2026
    Railway logoRailwaySeries B$100MJan 2026
    Theia logoTheiaUnknown$8MJan 2026
    RRavenSeed$20MJan 2026
    Harness logoHarnessSeries E$240MDec 2025
    HHarness.ioSeries E$240MDec 2025
    Aurasell logoAurasellSeed$30MAug 2025
    Fal logoFalSeries C—Jul 2025
    FluidCloud logoFluidCloudSeed$8.1MJul 2025
    Collate logoCollateSeries A$10MJul 2025
    Navro logoNavroSeries B—Apr 2025
    Sotira logoSotiraPre-Seed$2MFeb 2025
    Chalk logoChalkSeries A$50MJan 2025
    TYB logoTYBSeries A$11MJan 2025
    DDragonFruitBridge—Jan 2025
    CChalk.aiSeed$10MJan 2025
    HHARNESS INC.Series E$200MJan 2025
    Sundial logoSundialSeries A$16MJan 2025
    GovSignals logoGovSignalsSeed$5.5MDec 2024
    Relyance AI logoRelyance AISeries B$32.1MOct 2024
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    Top Co-Investors

    Menlo Ventures17 shared
    Battery Ventures11 shared
    Gaingels9 shared
    Accel9 shared
    GV8 shared
    Norwest Venture Partners7 shared
    Coinbase Ventures7 shared
    Thomvest Ventures6 shared
    Institutional Venture Partners6 shared
    Citi Ventures6 shared
    Sorenson Capital6 shared
    SignalFire6 shared
    Wing Venture Capital5 shared
    New Enterprise Associates4 shared
    Sequoia Capital4 shared
    Y Combinator4 shared
    Alkeon Capital Management4 shared
    ServiceNow Ventures4 shared
    Bain Capital Ventures4 shared
    Redpoint Ventures4 shared

    Last updated: 27 September 2026