Invests in
Locations:
Min Investment:
$100,000.00Max Investment:
$500,000.00Target Investment:
$250,000.00
Skills
Education
- SU
- Uo
- HU
Lists including John
Investments
Traceable
Total Funding: $90M
CO2 AI
Total Funding: $12M
Roboto AI
Total Funding: $5M
HumanSignal
Total Funding: $25M
Vivun
Total Funding: $130M
Relyance AI
Total Funding: $30M
BluBracket
Total Funding: $19M
Mem
Total Funding: $6M
CoScreen
Total Funding: $9.6M
Launchable
Total Funding: $13M
Work Experience
Lecture Faculty - Product Market Fit
2024
Lecture Faculty. Product-Market Fit.
2018
Founder and Managing Partner
2018
Unusual Ventures invests in pre-seed, seed and Series A stage enterprise software companies. Our mission is to redefine early stage investing and raise the bar for what entrepreneurs should expect from investment partners during the formation years. Seed/Early Investor in 20 billion dollar+ exits and financings including: Arctic Wolf Networks, Affirmed Networks (acquired by MSFT), AppDynamics (acquired by Cisco), Cockroach Labs, Harness, Heptio (acquired by VMware), Gusto, Liftoff.IO, Mulesoft (MULE acquired by Salesforce), Neon (acquired by Databricks), Nicira (acquired by VMware), Nimble Storage (NMBL acquired by HP), Pinterest (PINS), Pliant (acquired by SanDisk), PostHog, Sourcegraph, Tabular (acquired by Databricks) and Traceable (acquired by Harness). Current investments include Arctic Wolf Networks, Carta, Chalk, Databricks, FluidCloud, Harness, Hallow, Orum, Paxton AI, PostHog, Qdrant, Relyance.ai, Resolve, Rime AI, Vivun, and others.
2006 - 2017
General Partner
2006 - 2017
Early Investor in Affirmed Networks (acquired by MSFT), AppDynamics (acquired by Cisco), DataStax (acquired by IBM), Heptio (acquired by VMware), Mulesoft (MULE acquired by Salesforce), Nicira (acquired by VMware), Nimble Storage (NMBL acquired by HP), Pliant (acquired by SanDisk), Sourcegraph and Arctic Wolf Networks.
2004 - 2005
Product Management
2004 - 2005
Product management team working on host based intrusion prevention product.
2003 - 2005
Director of Product Management
2003 - 2005
• Joined as 5th employee. Assisted with product buildout and creating the go to market playbook. • Created affiliate strategy. Built and managed team with 150 representatives, structured compensation schedules for internal and external sales channels, and created joint product marketing materials.
2000 - 2003
Sr. Associate
2000 - 2003
While completing Masters in Computer Science I worked with ABN AMRO Ventures to invest in early and growth stage IT companies
1997 - 1999
Soccer
1997 - 1999