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UNUSUAL VENTURES
Gain the six key skills every founder needs for success in the early days. Learn how Unusual is raising the bar for what early stage founders should expect from investors. Overcome the hardest early stage obstacles through our hands on academy. Build your company with our expert team of recruiting, sales and marketing operators. PORTFOLIO – UNUSUAL VENTURES Chris Bennett, Arrel Gray. Shujinko provides an automated audit preparation platform that simplifies, automates, and modernizes cloud compliance. Customers achieve compliance 3x faster, saving thousands of people hours and dollars, and freeing up scarce engineering resources to focus on critical business priorities. TEAM – UNUSUAL VENTURES Gain the six key skills every founder needs for success in the early days. Learn how Unusual is raising the bar for what early stage founders should expect from investors. Overcome the hardest early stage obstacles through our hands on academy. Build your company with our expert team of recruiting, sales and marketing operators. MISSION – UNUSUAL VENTURES An authentic beginning. John and Jyoti started Unusual Ventures by reconsidering everything about seed-stage investing born from their experience as a long-time investor and serial entrepreneur. From a place of empathy, they started Unusual Ventures to provide a full range of seed stage services that are specifically designed to meetthe needs
BLOG – UNUSUAL VENTURES Discover our community of authentic founders. Gain the six key skills every founder needs for success in the early days. Learn how Unusual is raising the bar for what early stage founders should expect from investors. Overcome the hardest early stage obstacles through ourhands on academy.
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Field Guide. Our tactical field guide provides you with all of the best practices and tools founders need to solve the most challenging early-stage problems. Learn from over two dozen founders how to go from 0 to 1 and start a company — from honing in on your insight to quitting your job, finding a co-founder (s), and raising capital CAREERS – UNUSUAL VENTURES Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Suspendisse varius enim in eros elementum tristique. Duis cursus, mi quis viverra ornare, eros dolor interdum nulla,CHRIS MARTY
Chris is the Director of Talent at Unusual Ventures and partners with founders to build high-performing early teams. He joins Unusual after nearly a decade working in Talent at technology startups. Prior to Unusual, Chris led Talent at Fleetsmith where he grew the team from 45 to 90 in less than six months, culminating in Fleetsmith’sSANDHYA HEGDE
Sandhya Hegde is a Partner at Unusual Ventures, leading investments in enterprise SaaS platforms. She is particularly interested in technical founders who love data and design. Prior to Unusual, she was an early employee at Amplitude, joining as a product manager at the single-digit ARR stage. She grew the company ranks leading pivotalefforts
INTRODUCTION TO THE MODERN GTM Introduction. . Perhaps the most important determinant of a startup’s success today is the founder’s ability to successfully execute on the correct Go To Market (GTM) strategy. The optimal GTM for an enterprise startup is vastly different than it was a decade ago. Founders must now embrace that the correct GTM begins at productstrategy
UNUSUAL VENTURES
Gain the six key skills every founder needs for success in the early days. Learn how Unusual is raising the bar for what early stage founders should expect from investors. Overcome the hardest early stage obstacles through our hands on academy. Build your company with our expert team of recruiting, sales and marketing operators. PORTFOLIO – UNUSUAL VENTURES Chris Bennett, Arrel Gray. Shujinko provides an automated audit preparation platform that simplifies, automates, and modernizes cloud compliance. Customers achieve compliance 3x faster, saving thousands of people hours and dollars, and freeing up scarce engineering resources to focus on critical business priorities. TEAM – UNUSUAL VENTURES Gain the six key skills every founder needs for success in the early days. Learn how Unusual is raising the bar for what early stage founders should expect from investors. Overcome the hardest early stage obstacles through our hands on academy. Build your company with our expert team of recruiting, sales and marketing operators. MISSION – UNUSUAL VENTURES An authentic beginning. John and Jyoti started Unusual Ventures by reconsidering everything about seed-stage investing born from their experience as a long-time investor and serial entrepreneur. From a place of empathy, they started Unusual Ventures to provide a full range of seed stage services that are specifically designed to meetthe needs
BLOG – UNUSUAL VENTURES Discover our community of authentic founders. Gain the six key skills every founder needs for success in the early days. Learn how Unusual is raising the bar for what early stage founders should expect from investors. Overcome the hardest early stage obstacles through ourhands on academy.
FIELD GUIDE
Field Guide. Our tactical field guide provides you with all of the best practices and tools founders need to solve the most challenging early-stage problems. Learn from over two dozen founders how to go from 0 to 1 and start a company — from honing in on your insight to quitting your job, finding a co-founder (s), and raising capital CAREERS – UNUSUAL VENTURES Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Suspendisse varius enim in eros elementum tristique. Duis cursus, mi quis viverra ornare, eros dolor interdum nulla,CHRIS MARTY
Chris is the Director of Talent at Unusual Ventures and partners with founders to build high-performing early teams. He joins Unusual after nearly a decade working in Talent at technology startups. Prior to Unusual, Chris led Talent at Fleetsmith where he grew the team from 45 to 90 in less than six months, culminating in Fleetsmith’sSANDHYA HEGDE
Sandhya Hegde is a Partner at Unusual Ventures, leading investments in enterprise SaaS platforms. She is particularly interested in technical founders who love data and design. Prior to Unusual, she was an early employee at Amplitude, joining as a product manager at the single-digit ARR stage. She grew the company ranks leading pivotalefforts
INTRODUCTION TO THE MODERN GTM Introduction. . Perhaps the most important determinant of a startup’s success today is the founder’s ability to successfully execute on the correct Go To Market (GTM) strategy. The optimal GTM for an enterprise startup is vastly different than it was a decade ago. Founders must now embrace that the correct GTM begins at productstrategy
TEAM – UNUSUAL VENTURES Gain the six key skills every founder needs for success in the early days. Learn how Unusual is raising the bar for what early stage founders should expect from investors. Overcome the hardest early stage obstacles through our hands on academy. Build your company with our expert team of recruiting, sales and marketing operators. MISSION – UNUSUAL VENTURES An authentic beginning. John and Jyoti started Unusual Ventures by reconsidering everything about seed-stage investing born from their experience as a long-time investor and serial entrepreneur. From a place of empathy, they started Unusual Ventures to provide a full range of seed stage services that are specifically designed to meetthe needs
FIELD GUIDE
Field Guide. Our tactical field guide provides you with all of the best practices and tools founders need to solve the most challenging early-stage problems. Learn from over two dozen founders how to go from 0 to 1 and start a company — from honing in on your insight to quitting your job, finding a co-founder (s), and raising capital ACADEMY – UNUSUAL VENTURES The Unusual Academy is a hands-on learning program where select founders learn how to level up as leaders. Over the course of seven half-day sessions in the Bay Area you’ll receive tactical advice for overcoming the most difficult early stage obstacles. You may also be eligible to receive a meaningful investment of capital (up to $1M). CONTACT – UNUSUAL VENTURES Send us a note and we'll be in touch. For LP inquires, please email karen@unusual.vc. Unusual Ventures Office. 200 Middlefield Rd. Suite 110. Menlo Park, CA 94025. 1-650-434-0930.SPARK - UNUSUAL
Create meaningful connections and explore your idea alongside an incredible group of founders in the early stages of building their consumer or enterprise startups. A former CPO of Slack, now on a mission is to empower local businesses. . A former product builderat
UNUSUAL FOUNDER’S VIDEO SERIES: THE GUIDE TO FUNDRAISING In our new video series, Partner John Vrionis has compiled his key fundraising learnings as the result of his experience as an investor, but more importantly, as a partner to founders at the earliest stagesof their journey.
AN UNUSUAL JOURNEY: GRATEFUL AFTER THREE YEARS By: John Vrionis and Jyoti Bansal. Three years ago, we announced Unusual’s inception to the world with the audacious goal of rethinking early-stage investing. We had a thesis that early-stage founders deserved more—and should demand more—from their investors in the form of hands-on help to overcome the hardest leg of a startup journey: From Idea to Product-Market-Fit. UPCOMING MODERN GTM MODULES Upcoming Modern GTM Modules. As a founder you want to build a company with a Modern GTM which means learning the best practices required to build and lead your organization. It also means driving the implementation and use of the right business tooling required to support each team and keep them aligned on the right Key PerformanceIndicators
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Gain the six key skills every founder needs for success in the earlydays.
UNUSUAL VENTURES
Gain the six key skills every founder needs for success in the early days. Learn how Unusual is raising the bar for what early stage founders should expect from investors. Overcome the hardest early stage obstacles through our hands on academy. Build your company with our expert team of recruiting, sales and marketing operators. PORTFOLIO – UNUSUAL VENTURES Chris Bennett, Arrel Gray. Shujinko provides an automated audit preparation platform that simplifies, automates, and modernizes cloud compliance. Customers achieve compliance 3x faster, saving thousands of people hours and dollars, and freeing up scarce engineering resources to focus on critical business priorities. TEAM – UNUSUAL VENTURES Gain the six key skills every founder needs for success in the early days. Learn how Unusual is raising the bar for what early stage founders should expect from investors. Overcome the hardest early stage obstacles through our hands on academy. Build your company with our expert team of recruiting, sales and marketing operators. BLOG – UNUSUAL VENTURES Discover our community of authentic founders. Gain the six key skills every founder needs for success in the early days. Learn how Unusual is raising the bar for what early stage founders should expect from investors. Overcome the hardest early stage obstacles through ourhands on academy.
FIELD GUIDE
Field Guide. Our tactical field guide provides you with all of the best practices and tools founders need to solve the most challenging early-stage problems. Learn from over two dozen founders how to go from 0 to 1 and start a company — from honing in on your insight to quitting your job, finding a co-founder (s), and raising capital CAREERS – UNUSUAL VENTURES Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Suspendisse varius enim in eros elementum tristique. Duis cursus, mi quis viverra ornare, eros dolor interdum nulla,CHRIS MARTY
Chris is the Director of Talent at Unusual Ventures and partners with founders to build high-performing early teams. He joins Unusual after nearly a decade working in Talent at technology startups. Prior to Unusual, Chris led Talent at Fleetsmith where he grew the team from 45 to 90 in less than six months, culminating in Fleetsmith’sJOHN VRIONIS
John Vrionis is a Co-Founder and Partner at Unusual Ventures, leading investments in enterprise startups and is the creator of Unusual Academy. Originally from Georgia, John attended Harvard where he studied economics and played soccer. His drive to learn pushed him to earn his master’s degree in computer science from the University ofSANDHYA HEGDE
Sandhya Hegde is a Partner at Unusual Ventures, leading investments in enterprise SaaS platforms. She is particularly interested in technical founders who love data and design. Prior to Unusual, she was an early employee at Amplitude, joining as a product manager at the single-digit ARR stage. She grew the company ranks leading pivotalefforts
INTRODUCTION TO THE MODERN GTM Introduction. . Perhaps the most important determinant of a startup’s success today is the founder’s ability to successfully execute on the correct Go To Market (GTM) strategy. The optimal GTM for an enterprise startup is vastly different than it was a decade ago. Founders must now embrace that the correct GTM begins at productstrategy
UNUSUAL VENTURES
Gain the six key skills every founder needs for success in the early days. Learn how Unusual is raising the bar for what early stage founders should expect from investors. Overcome the hardest early stage obstacles through our hands on academy. Build your company with our expert team of recruiting, sales and marketing operators. PORTFOLIO – UNUSUAL VENTURES Chris Bennett, Arrel Gray. Shujinko provides an automated audit preparation platform that simplifies, automates, and modernizes cloud compliance. Customers achieve compliance 3x faster, saving thousands of people hours and dollars, and freeing up scarce engineering resources to focus on critical business priorities. TEAM – UNUSUAL VENTURES Gain the six key skills every founder needs for success in the early days. Learn how Unusual is raising the bar for what early stage founders should expect from investors. Overcome the hardest early stage obstacles through our hands on academy. Build your company with our expert team of recruiting, sales and marketing operators. BLOG – UNUSUAL VENTURES Discover our community of authentic founders. Gain the six key skills every founder needs for success in the early days. Learn how Unusual is raising the bar for what early stage founders should expect from investors. Overcome the hardest early stage obstacles through ourhands on academy.
FIELD GUIDE
Field Guide. Our tactical field guide provides you with all of the best practices and tools founders need to solve the most challenging early-stage problems. Learn from over two dozen founders how to go from 0 to 1 and start a company — from honing in on your insight to quitting your job, finding a co-founder (s), and raising capital CAREERS – UNUSUAL VENTURES Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Suspendisse varius enim in eros elementum tristique. Duis cursus, mi quis viverra ornare, eros dolor interdum nulla,CHRIS MARTY
Chris is the Director of Talent at Unusual Ventures and partners with founders to build high-performing early teams. He joins Unusual after nearly a decade working in Talent at technology startups. Prior to Unusual, Chris led Talent at Fleetsmith where he grew the team from 45 to 90 in less than six months, culminating in Fleetsmith’sJOHN VRIONIS
John Vrionis is a Co-Founder and Partner at Unusual Ventures, leading investments in enterprise startups and is the creator of Unusual Academy. Originally from Georgia, John attended Harvard where he studied economics and played soccer. His drive to learn pushed him to earn his master’s degree in computer science from the University ofSANDHYA HEGDE
Sandhya Hegde is a Partner at Unusual Ventures, leading investments in enterprise SaaS platforms. She is particularly interested in technical founders who love data and design. Prior to Unusual, she was an early employee at Amplitude, joining as a product manager at the single-digit ARR stage. She grew the company ranks leading pivotalefforts
INTRODUCTION TO THE MODERN GTM Introduction. . Perhaps the most important determinant of a startup’s success today is the founder’s ability to successfully execute on the correct Go To Market (GTM) strategy. The optimal GTM for an enterprise startup is vastly different than it was a decade ago. Founders must now embrace that the correct GTM begins at productstrategy
TEAM – UNUSUAL VENTURES Gain the six key skills every founder needs for success in the early days. Learn how Unusual is raising the bar for what early stage founders should expect from investors. Overcome the hardest early stage obstacles through our hands on academy. Build your company with our expert team of recruiting, sales and marketing operators. MISSION – UNUSUAL VENTURES An authentic beginning. John and Jyoti started Unusual Ventures by reconsidering everything about seed-stage investing born from their experience as a long-time investor and serial entrepreneur. From a place of empathy, they started Unusual Ventures to provide a full range of seed stage services that are specifically designed to meetthe needs
FIELD GUIDE
Field Guide. Our tactical field guide provides you with all of the best practices and tools founders need to solve the most challenging early-stage problems. Learn from over two dozen founders how to go from 0 to 1 and start a company — from honing in on your insight to quitting your job, finding a co-founder (s), and raising capital ACADEMY – UNUSUAL VENTURES The Unusual Academy is a hands-on learning program where select founders learn how to level up as leaders. Over the course of seven half-day sessions in the Bay Area you’ll receive tactical advice for overcoming the most difficult early stage obstacles. You may also be eligible to receive a meaningful investment of capital (up to $1M). CONTACT – UNUSUAL VENTURES Send us a note and we'll be in touch. For LP inquires, please email karen@unusual.vc. Unusual Ventures Office. 200 Middlefield Rd. Suite 110. Menlo Park, CA 94025. 1-650-434-0930. UNUSUAL FOUNDER’S VIDEO SERIES: THE GUIDE TO FUNDRAISING In our new video series, Partner John Vrionis has compiled his key fundraising learnings as the result of his experience as an investor, but more importantly, as a partner to founders at the earliest stagesof their journey.
AN UNUSUAL JOURNEY: GRATEFUL AFTER THREE YEARS By: John Vrionis and Jyoti Bansal. Three years ago, we announced Unusual’s inception to the world with the audacious goal of rethinking early-stage investing. We had a thesis that early-stage founders deserved more—and should demand more—from their investors in the form of hands-on help to overcome the hardest leg of a startup journey: From Idea to Product-Market-Fit.SARAH LEARY
Sarah Leary is a Venture Partner at Unusual Ventures, with a focus on building out Unusual’s consumer practice. She is specifically interested in investing in opportunities that tap into the power of community, marketplaces, and social networks. Prior to joining Unusual, Sarah co-founded Nextdoor, the free and private socialnetwork for
UPCOMING MODERN GTM MODULES Upcoming Modern GTM Modules. As a founder you want to build a company with a Modern GTM which means learning the best practices required to build and lead your organization. It also means driving the implementation and use of the right business tooling required to support each team and keep them aligned on the right Key PerformanceIndicators
HALEY DAIBER
Gain the six key skills every founder needs for success in the earlydays.
UNUSUAL VENTURES
Gain the six key skills every founder needs for success in the early days. Learn how Unusual is raising the bar for what early stage founders should expect from investors. Overcome the hardest early stage obstacles through our hands on academy. Build your company with our expert team of recruiting, sales and marketing operators. PORTFOLIO – UNUSUAL VENTURES Chris Bennett, Arrel Gray. Shujinko provides an automated audit preparation platform that simplifies, automates, and modernizes cloud compliance. Customers achieve compliance 3x faster, saving thousands of people hours and dollars, and freeing up scarce engineering resources to focus on critical business priorities. TEAM – UNUSUAL VENTURES Gain the six key skills every founder needs for success in the early days. Learn how Unusual is raising the bar for what early stage founders should expect from investors. Overcome the hardest early stage obstacles through our hands on academy. Build your company with our expert team of recruiting, sales and marketing operators. BLOG – UNUSUAL VENTURES Discover our community of authentic founders. Gain the six key skills every founder needs for success in the early days. Learn how Unusual is raising the bar for what early stage founders should expect from investors. Overcome the hardest early stage obstacles through ourhands on academy.
FIELD GUIDE
Field Guide. Our tactical field guide provides you with all of the best practices and tools founders need to solve the most challenging early-stage problems. Learn from over two dozen founders how to go from 0 to 1 and start a company — from honing in on your insight to quitting your job, finding a co-founder (s), and raising capital CAREERS – UNUSUAL VENTURES Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Suspendisse varius enim in eros elementum tristique. Duis cursus, mi quis viverra ornare, eros dolor interdum nulla,CHRIS MARTY
Chris is the Director of Talent at Unusual Ventures and partners with founders to build high-performing early teams. He joins Unusual after nearly a decade working in Talent at technology startups. Prior to Unusual, Chris led Talent at Fleetsmith where he grew the team from 45 to 90 in less than six months, culminating in Fleetsmith’sJOHN VRIONIS
John Vrionis is a Co-Founder and Partner at Unusual Ventures, leading investments in enterprise startups and is the creator of Unusual Academy. Originally from Georgia, John attended Harvard where he studied economics and played soccer. His drive to learn pushed him to earn his master’s degree in computer science from the University ofSANDHYA HEGDE
Sandhya Hegde is a Partner at Unusual Ventures, leading investments in enterprise SaaS platforms. She is particularly interested in technical founders who love data and design. Prior to Unusual, she was an early employee at Amplitude, joining as a product manager at the single-digit ARR stage. She grew the company ranks leading pivotalefforts
INTRODUCTION TO THE MODERN GTM Introduction. . Perhaps the most important determinant of a startup’s success today is the founder’s ability to successfully execute on the correct Go To Market (GTM) strategy. The optimal GTM for an enterprise startup is vastly different than it was a decade ago. Founders must now embrace that the correct GTM begins at productstrategy
UNUSUAL VENTURES
Gain the six key skills every founder needs for success in the early days. Learn how Unusual is raising the bar for what early stage founders should expect from investors. Overcome the hardest early stage obstacles through our hands on academy. Build your company with our expert team of recruiting, sales and marketing operators. PORTFOLIO – UNUSUAL VENTURES Chris Bennett, Arrel Gray. Shujinko provides an automated audit preparation platform that simplifies, automates, and modernizes cloud compliance. Customers achieve compliance 3x faster, saving thousands of people hours and dollars, and freeing up scarce engineering resources to focus on critical business priorities. TEAM – UNUSUAL VENTURES Gain the six key skills every founder needs for success in the early days. Learn how Unusual is raising the bar for what early stage founders should expect from investors. Overcome the hardest early stage obstacles through our hands on academy. Build your company with our expert team of recruiting, sales and marketing operators. BLOG – UNUSUAL VENTURES Discover our community of authentic founders. Gain the six key skills every founder needs for success in the early days. Learn how Unusual is raising the bar for what early stage founders should expect from investors. Overcome the hardest early stage obstacles through ourhands on academy.
FIELD GUIDE
Field Guide. Our tactical field guide provides you with all of the best practices and tools founders need to solve the most challenging early-stage problems. Learn from over two dozen founders how to go from 0 to 1 and start a company — from honing in on your insight to quitting your job, finding a co-founder (s), and raising capital CAREERS – UNUSUAL VENTURES Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Suspendisse varius enim in eros elementum tristique. Duis cursus, mi quis viverra ornare, eros dolor interdum nulla,CHRIS MARTY
Chris is the Director of Talent at Unusual Ventures and partners with founders to build high-performing early teams. He joins Unusual after nearly a decade working in Talent at technology startups. Prior to Unusual, Chris led Talent at Fleetsmith where he grew the team from 45 to 90 in less than six months, culminating in Fleetsmith’sJOHN VRIONIS
John Vrionis is a Co-Founder and Partner at Unusual Ventures, leading investments in enterprise startups and is the creator of Unusual Academy. Originally from Georgia, John attended Harvard where he studied economics and played soccer. His drive to learn pushed him to earn his master’s degree in computer science from the University ofSANDHYA HEGDE
Sandhya Hegde is a Partner at Unusual Ventures, leading investments in enterprise SaaS platforms. She is particularly interested in technical founders who love data and design. Prior to Unusual, she was an early employee at Amplitude, joining as a product manager at the single-digit ARR stage. She grew the company ranks leading pivotalefforts
INTRODUCTION TO THE MODERN GTM Introduction. . Perhaps the most important determinant of a startup’s success today is the founder’s ability to successfully execute on the correct Go To Market (GTM) strategy. The optimal GTM for an enterprise startup is vastly different than it was a decade ago. Founders must now embrace that the correct GTM begins at productstrategy
TEAM – UNUSUAL VENTURES Gain the six key skills every founder needs for success in the early days. Learn how Unusual is raising the bar for what early stage founders should expect from investors. Overcome the hardest early stage obstacles through our hands on academy. Build your company with our expert team of recruiting, sales and marketing operators. MISSION – UNUSUAL VENTURES An authentic beginning. John and Jyoti started Unusual Ventures by reconsidering everything about seed-stage investing born from their experience as a long-time investor and serial entrepreneur. From a place of empathy, they started Unusual Ventures to provide a full range of seed stage services that are specifically designed to meetthe needs
FIELD GUIDE
Field Guide. Our tactical field guide provides you with all of the best practices and tools founders need to solve the most challenging early-stage problems. Learn from over two dozen founders how to go from 0 to 1 and start a company — from honing in on your insight to quitting your job, finding a co-founder (s), and raising capital ACADEMY – UNUSUAL VENTURES The Unusual Academy is a hands-on learning program where select founders learn how to level up as leaders. Over the course of seven half-day sessions in the Bay Area you’ll receive tactical advice for overcoming the most difficult early stage obstacles. You may also be eligible to receive a meaningful investment of capital (up to $1M). CONTACT – UNUSUAL VENTURES Send us a note and we'll be in touch. For LP inquires, please email karen@unusual.vc. Unusual Ventures Office. 200 Middlefield Rd. Suite 110. Menlo Park, CA 94025. 1-650-434-0930. UNUSUAL FOUNDER’S VIDEO SERIES: THE GUIDE TO FUNDRAISING In our new video series, Partner John Vrionis has compiled his key fundraising learnings as the result of his experience as an investor, but more importantly, as a partner to founders at the earliest stagesof their journey.
AN UNUSUAL JOURNEY: GRATEFUL AFTER THREE YEARS By: John Vrionis and Jyoti Bansal. Three years ago, we announced Unusual’s inception to the world with the audacious goal of rethinking early-stage investing. We had a thesis that early-stage founders deserved more—and should demand more—from their investors in the form of hands-on help to overcome the hardest leg of a startup journey: From Idea to Product-Market-Fit. UNUSUAL VENTURES FIELD GUIDE Perhaps the most important determinant of a startup’s success today is the founder’s ability to successfully execute on the correct Go To Market (GTM) strategy. UPCOMING MODERN GTM MODULES Upcoming Modern GTM Modules. As a founder you want to build a company with a Modern GTM which means learning the best practices required to build and lead your organization. It also means driving the implementation and use of the right business tooling required to support each team and keep them aligned on the right Key PerformanceIndicators
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Gain the six key skills every founder needs for success in the early days. Learn how Unusual is raising the bar for what early stage founders should expect from investors. Overcome the hardest early stage obstacles through our hands on academy. Build your company with our expert team of recruiting, sales and marketing operators. TEAM – UNUSUAL VENTURES Gain the six key skills every founder needs for success in the early days. Learn how Unusual is raising the bar for what early stage founders should expect from investors. Overcome the hardest early stage obstacles through our hands on academy. Build your company with our expert team of recruiting, sales and marketing operators. PORTFOLIO – UNUSUAL VENTURES Chris Bennett, Arrel Gray. Shujinko provides an automated audit preparation platform that simplifies, automates, and modernizes cloud compliance. Customers achieve compliance 3x faster, saving thousands of people hours and dollars, and freeing up scarce engineering resources to focus on critical business priorities.SPARK - UNUSUAL
Create meaningful connections and explore your idea alongside an incredible group of founders in the early stages of building their consumer or enterprise startups. A former CPO of Slack, now on a mission is to empower local businesses. . A former product builderat
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Chris is the Director of Talent at Unusual Ventures and partners with founders to build high-performing early teams. He joins Unusual after nearly a decade working in Talent at technology startups. Prior to Unusual, Chris led Talent at Fleetsmith where he grew the team from 45 to 90 in less than six months, culminating in Fleetsmith’sJOHN VRIONIS
John Vrionis is a Co-Founder and Partner at Unusual Ventures, leading investments in enterprise startups and is the creator of Unusual Academy. Originally from Georgia, John attended Harvard where he studied economics and played soccer. His drive to learn pushed him to earn his master’s degree in computer science from the University of INTRODUCTION TO THE MODERN GTM Introduction. . Perhaps the most important determinant of a startup’s success today is the founder’s ability to successfully execute on the correct Go To Market (GTM) strategy. The optimal GTM for an enterprise startup is vastly different than it was a decade ago. Founders must now embrace that the correct GTM begins at productstrategy
UNUSUAL VENTURES FIELD GUIDE Perhaps the most important determinant of a startup’s success today is the founder’s ability to successfully execute on the correct Go To Market (GTM) strategy. APPDYNAMICS CASE STUDY AppDynamics Case Study: Finding Your Focus. . . It was March 2017, and Jyoti Bansal was elated. Cisco Systems had officially acquired AppDynamics for $3.7 billion. As an application performance management (APM) company, AppDynamics developed software to monitor applications across an ever-increasingly complex network of code,third-party
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Gain the six key skills every founder needs for success in the early days. Learn how Unusual is raising the bar for what early stage founders should expect from investors. Overcome the hardest early stage obstacles through our hands on academy. Build your company with our expert team of recruiting, sales and marketing operators. TEAM – UNUSUAL VENTURES Gain the six key skills every founder needs for success in the early days. Learn how Unusual is raising the bar for what early stage founders should expect from investors. Overcome the hardest early stage obstacles through our hands on academy. Build your company with our expert team of recruiting, sales and marketing operators. PORTFOLIO – UNUSUAL VENTURES Chris Bennett, Arrel Gray. Shujinko provides an automated audit preparation platform that simplifies, automates, and modernizes cloud compliance. Customers achieve compliance 3x faster, saving thousands of people hours and dollars, and freeing up scarce engineering resources to focus on critical business priorities. BLOG – UNUSUAL VENTURES Discover our community of authentic founders. Gain the six key skills every founder needs for success in the early days. Learn how Unusual is raising the bar for what early stage founders should expect from investors. Overcome the hardest early stage obstacles through ourhands on academy.
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Create meaningful connections and explore your idea alongside an incredible group of founders in the early stages of building their consumer or enterprise startups. A former CPO of Slack, now on a mission is to empower local businesses. . A former product builderat
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Chris is the Director of Talent at Unusual Ventures and partners with founders to build high-performing early teams. He joins Unusual after nearly a decade working in Talent at technology startups. Prior to Unusual, Chris led Talent at Fleetsmith where he grew the team from 45 to 90 in less than six months, culminating in Fleetsmith’sJOHN VRIONIS
John Vrionis is a Co-Founder and Partner at Unusual Ventures, leading investments in enterprise startups and is the creator of Unusual Academy. Originally from Georgia, John attended Harvard where he studied economics and played soccer. His drive to learn pushed him to earn his master’s degree in computer science from the University of INTRODUCTION TO THE MODERN GTM Introduction. . Perhaps the most important determinant of a startup’s success today is the founder’s ability to successfully execute on the correct Go To Market (GTM) strategy. The optimal GTM for an enterprise startup is vastly different than it was a decade ago. Founders must now embrace that the correct GTM begins at productstrategy
UNUSUAL VENTURES FIELD GUIDE Perhaps the most important determinant of a startup’s success today is the founder’s ability to successfully execute on the correct Go To Market (GTM) strategy. MISSION – UNUSUAL VENTURES An authentic beginning. John and Jyoti started Unusual Ventures by reconsidering everything about seed-stage investing born from their experience as a long-time investor and serial entrepreneur. From a place of empathy, they started Unusual Ventures to provide a full range of seed stage services that are specifically designed to meetthe needs
BLOG – UNUSUAL VENTURES Discover our community of authentic founders. Gain the six key skills every founder needs for success in the early days. Learn how Unusual is raising the bar for what early stage founders should expect from investors. Overcome the hardest early stage obstacles through ourhands on academy.
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Create meaningful connections and explore your idea alongside an incredible group of founders in the early stages of building their consumer or enterprise startups. A former CPO of Slack, now on a mission is to empower local businesses. . A former product builderat
CONTACT – UNUSUAL VENTURES Send us a note and we'll be in touch. For LP inquires, please email karen@unusual.vc. Unusual Ventures Office. 200 Middlefield Rd. Suite 110. Menlo Park, CA 94025. 1-650-434-0930.GET AHEAD PLATFORM
We created the Get Ahead Platform because we wanted our founders to have access to the best marketing, sales, and recruiting resources that are so essential early on, but impossible to find or afford as a new startup founder. Scott Schwarzhoff. Operating Partner. Bill Hodak.Marketing Partner.
BEN HUFFMAN
Ben Huffman is the Co-Founder and CEO of Contra, the first professional community for the independent digital workforce.FIELD GUIDE
Learn from over two dozen founders how to go from 0 to 1 and start a company — from honing in on your insight to quitting your job, finding a co-founder (s), and raising capital. Consumer Partner Andy Johns breaks down the fundamentals of growth loops and how UNUSUAL VENTURES FIELD GUIDE Perhaps the most important determinant of a startup’s success today is the founder’s ability to successfully execute on the correct Go To Market (GTM) strategy. INTRO TO ICP AND PERSONAS Defining an ICP/Personas is an iterative process. As you learn more about your customers and usage of your product through engagements and customer interviews, continue shaping your ICP and Personas. At a minimum, you should be meeting with your customers once a quarter to gather feedback and further refine your ICP or Personas.BUILDING CONVICTION
Prototype a potential solution. Any day with no code written is a wasted day.”. Even when he would be pitching customers all day, Jyoti would come back and write code to clarify his own conviction and keep momentum on the solution. That doesn’t mean you should build a full-featured solution.UNUSUAL VENTURES
Gain the six key skills every founder needs for success in the early days. Learn how Unusual is raising the bar for what early stage founders should expect from investors. Overcome the hardest early stage obstacles through our hands on academy. Build your company with our expert team of recruiting, sales and marketing operators. TEAM – UNUSUAL VENTURES Gain the six key skills every founder needs for success in the early days. Learn how Unusual is raising the bar for what early stage founders should expect from investors. Overcome the hardest early stage obstacles through our hands on academy. Build your company with our expert team of recruiting, sales and marketing operators. PORTFOLIO – UNUSUAL VENTURES Chris Bennett, Arrel Gray. Shujinko provides an automated audit preparation platform that simplifies, automates, and modernizes cloud compliance. Customers achieve compliance 3x faster, saving thousands of people hours and dollars, and freeing up scarce engineering resources to focus on critical business priorities.SPARK - UNUSUAL
Create meaningful connections and explore your idea alongside an incredible group of founders in the early stages of building their consumer or enterprise startups. A former CPO of Slack, now on a mission is to empower local businesses. . A former product builderat
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Chris is the Director of Talent at Unusual Ventures and partners with founders to build high-performing early teams. He joins Unusual after nearly a decade working in Talent at technology startups. Prior to Unusual, Chris led Talent at Fleetsmith where he grew the team from 45 to 90 in less than six months, culminating in Fleetsmith’sJOHN VRIONIS
John Vrionis is a Co-Founder and Partner at Unusual Ventures, leading investments in enterprise startups and is the creator of Unusual Academy. Originally from Georgia, John attended Harvard where he studied economics and played soccer. His drive to learn pushed him to earn his master’s degree in computer science from the University of INTRODUCTION TO THE MODERN GTM Introduction. . Perhaps the most important determinant of a startup’s success today is the founder’s ability to successfully execute on the correct Go To Market (GTM) strategy. The optimal GTM for an enterprise startup is vastly different than it was a decade ago. Founders must now embrace that the correct GTM begins at productstrategy
UNUSUAL VENTURES FIELD GUIDE Perhaps the most important determinant of a startup’s success today is the founder’s ability to successfully execute on the correct Go To Market (GTM) strategy. APPDYNAMICS CASE STUDY AppDynamics Case Study: Finding Your Focus. . . It was March 2017, and Jyoti Bansal was elated. Cisco Systems had officially acquired AppDynamics for $3.7 billion. As an application performance management (APM) company, AppDynamics developed software to monitor applications across an ever-increasingly complex network of code,third-party
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Gain the six key skills every founder needs for success in the early days. Learn how Unusual is raising the bar for what early stage founders should expect from investors. Overcome the hardest early stage obstacles through our hands on academy. Build your company with our expert team of recruiting, sales and marketing operators. TEAM – UNUSUAL VENTURES Gain the six key skills every founder needs for success in the early days. Learn how Unusual is raising the bar for what early stage founders should expect from investors. Overcome the hardest early stage obstacles through our hands on academy. Build your company with our expert team of recruiting, sales and marketing operators. PORTFOLIO – UNUSUAL VENTURES Chris Bennett, Arrel Gray. Shujinko provides an automated audit preparation platform that simplifies, automates, and modernizes cloud compliance. Customers achieve compliance 3x faster, saving thousands of people hours and dollars, and freeing up scarce engineering resources to focus on critical business priorities.SPARK - UNUSUAL
Create meaningful connections and explore your idea alongside an incredible group of founders in the early stages of building their consumer or enterprise startups. A former CPO of Slack, now on a mission is to empower local businesses. . A former product builderat
CAREERS – UNUSUAL VENTURES Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Suspendisse varius enim in eros elementum tristique. Duis cursus, mi quis viverra ornare, eros dolor interdum nulla,CHRIS MARTY
Chris is the Director of Talent at Unusual Ventures and partners with founders to build high-performing early teams. He joins Unusual after nearly a decade working in Talent at technology startups. Prior to Unusual, Chris led Talent at Fleetsmith where he grew the team from 45 to 90 in less than six months, culminating in Fleetsmith’sJOHN VRIONIS
John Vrionis is a Co-Founder and Partner at Unusual Ventures, leading investments in enterprise startups and is the creator of Unusual Academy. Originally from Georgia, John attended Harvard where he studied economics and played soccer. His drive to learn pushed him to earn his master’s degree in computer science from the University of INTRODUCTION TO THE MODERN GTM Introduction. . Perhaps the most important determinant of a startup’s success today is the founder’s ability to successfully execute on the correct Go To Market (GTM) strategy. The optimal GTM for an enterprise startup is vastly different than it was a decade ago. Founders must now embrace that the correct GTM begins at productstrategy
UNUSUAL VENTURES FIELD GUIDE Perhaps the most important determinant of a startup’s success today is the founder’s ability to successfully execute on the correct Go To Market (GTM) strategy. APPDYNAMICS CASE STUDY AppDynamics Case Study: Finding Your Focus. . . It was March 2017, and Jyoti Bansal was elated. Cisco Systems had officially acquired AppDynamics for $3.7 billion. As an application performance management (APM) company, AppDynamics developed software to monitor applications across an ever-increasingly complex network of code,third-party
MISSION – UNUSUAL VENTURES An authentic beginning. John and Jyoti started Unusual Ventures by reconsidering everything about seed-stage investing born from their experience as a long-time investor and serial entrepreneur. From a place of empathy, they started Unusual Ventures to provide a full range of seed stage services that are specifically designed to meetthe needs
BLOG – UNUSUAL VENTURES Discover our community of authentic founders. Gain the six key skills every founder needs for success in the early days. Learn how Unusual is raising the bar for what early stage founders should expect from investors. Overcome the hardest early stage obstacles through ourhands on academy.
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Create meaningful connections and explore your idea alongside an incredible group of founders in the early stages of building their consumer or enterprise startups. A former CPO of Slack, now on a mission is to empower local businesses. . A former product builderat
CONTACT – UNUSUAL VENTURES Send us a note and we'll be in touch. For LP inquires, please email karen@unusual.vc. Unusual Ventures Office. 200 Middlefield Rd. Suite 110. Menlo Park, CA 94025. 1-650-434-0930.GET AHEAD PLATFORM
We created the Get Ahead Platform because we wanted our founders to have access to the best marketing, sales, and recruiting resources that are so essential early on, but impossible to find or afford as a new startup founder. Scott Schwarzhoff. Operating Partner. Bill Hodak.Marketing Partner.
BEN HUFFMAN
Ben Huffman is the Co-Founder and CEO of Contra, the first professional community for the independent digital workforce.FIELD GUIDE
Learn from over two dozen founders how to go from 0 to 1 and start a company — from honing in on your insight to quitting your job, finding a co-founder (s), and raising capital. Consumer Partner Andy Johns breaks down the fundamentals of growth loops and how UNUSUAL VENTURES FIELD GUIDE Perhaps the most important determinant of a startup’s success today is the founder’s ability to successfully execute on the correct Go To Market (GTM) strategy. INTRO TO ICP AND PERSONAS Defining an ICP/Personas is an iterative process. As you learn more about your customers and usage of your product through engagements and customer interviews, continue shaping your ICP and Personas. At a minimum, you should be meeting with your customers once a quarter to gather feedback and further refine your ICP or Personas.BUILDING CONVICTION
Prototype a potential solution. Any day with no code written is a wasted day.”. Even when he would be pitching customers all day, Jyoti would come back and write code to clarify his own conviction and keep momentum on the solution. That doesn’t mean you should build a full-featured solution.UNUSUAL VENTURES
Gain the six key skills every founder needs for success in the early days. Learn how Unusual is raising the bar for what early stage founders should expect from investors. Overcome the hardest early stage obstacles through our hands on academy. Build your company with our expert team of recruiting, sales and marketing operators. PORTFOLIO – UNUSUAL VENTURES Chris Bennett, Arrel Gray. Shujinko provides an automated audit preparation platform that simplifies, automates, and modernizes cloud compliance. Customers achieve compliance 3x faster, saving thousands of people hours and dollars, and freeing up scarce engineering resources to focus on critical business priorities. TEAM – UNUSUAL VENTURES Gain the six key skills every founder needs for success in the early days. Learn how Unusual is raising the bar for what early stage founders should expect from investors. Overcome the hardest early stage obstacles through our hands on academy. Build your company with our expert team of recruiting, sales and marketing operators. MISSION – UNUSUAL VENTURES An authentic beginning. John and Jyoti started Unusual Ventures by reconsidering everything about seed-stage investing born from their experience as a long-time investor and serial entrepreneur. From a place of empathy, they started Unusual Ventures to provide a full range of seed stage services that are specifically designed to meetthe needs
BLOG – UNUSUAL VENTURES Discover our community of authentic founders. Gain the six key skills every founder needs for success in the early days. Learn how Unusual is raising the bar for what early stage founders should expect from investors. Overcome the hardest early stage obstacles through ourhands on academy.
FIELD GUIDE
Field Guide. Our tactical field guide provides you with all of the best practices and tools founders need to solve the most challenging early-stage problems. Learn from over two dozen founders how to go from 0 to 1 and start a company — from honing in on your insight to quitting your job, finding a co-founder (s), and raising capital CAREERS – UNUSUAL VENTURES Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Suspendisse varius enim in eros elementum tristique. Duis cursus, mi quis viverra ornare, eros dolor interdum nulla,CHRIS MARTY
Chris is the Director of Talent at Unusual Ventures and partners with founders to build high-performing early teams. He joins Unusual after nearly a decade working in Talent at technology startups. Prior to Unusual, Chris led Talent at Fleetsmith where he grew the team from 45 to 90 in less than six months, culminating in Fleetsmith’sSANDHYA HEGDE
Sandhya Hegde is a Partner at Unusual Ventures, leading investments in enterprise SaaS platforms. She is particularly interested in technical founders who love data and design. Prior to Unusual, she was an early employee at Amplitude, joining as a product manager at the single-digit ARR stage. She grew the company ranks leading pivotalefforts
INTRODUCTION TO THE MODERN GTM Introduction. . Perhaps the most important determinant of a startup’s success today is the founder’s ability to successfully execute on the correct Go To Market (GTM) strategy. The optimal GTM for an enterprise startup is vastly different than it was a decade ago. Founders must now embrace that the correct GTM begins at productstrategy
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Gain the six key skills every founder needs for success in the early days. Learn how Unusual is raising the bar for what early stage founders should expect from investors. Overcome the hardest early stage obstacles through our hands on academy. Build your company with our expert team of recruiting, sales and marketing operators. PORTFOLIO – UNUSUAL VENTURES Chris Bennett, Arrel Gray. Shujinko provides an automated audit preparation platform that simplifies, automates, and modernizes cloud compliance. Customers achieve compliance 3x faster, saving thousands of people hours and dollars, and freeing up scarce engineering resources to focus on critical business priorities. TEAM – UNUSUAL VENTURES Gain the six key skills every founder needs for success in the early days. Learn how Unusual is raising the bar for what early stage founders should expect from investors. Overcome the hardest early stage obstacles through our hands on academy. Build your company with our expert team of recruiting, sales and marketing operators. MISSION – UNUSUAL VENTURES An authentic beginning. John and Jyoti started Unusual Ventures by reconsidering everything about seed-stage investing born from their experience as a long-time investor and serial entrepreneur. From a place of empathy, they started Unusual Ventures to provide a full range of seed stage services that are specifically designed to meetthe needs
BLOG – UNUSUAL VENTURES Discover our community of authentic founders. Gain the six key skills every founder needs for success in the early days. Learn how Unusual is raising the bar for what early stage founders should expect from investors. Overcome the hardest early stage obstacles through ourhands on academy.
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Field Guide. Our tactical field guide provides you with all of the best practices and tools founders need to solve the most challenging early-stage problems. Learn from over two dozen founders how to go from 0 to 1 and start a company — from honing in on your insight to quitting your job, finding a co-founder (s), and raising capital CAREERS – UNUSUAL VENTURES Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Suspendisse varius enim in eros elementum tristique. Duis cursus, mi quis viverra ornare, eros dolor interdum nulla,CHRIS MARTY
Chris is the Director of Talent at Unusual Ventures and partners with founders to build high-performing early teams. He joins Unusual after nearly a decade working in Talent at technology startups. Prior to Unusual, Chris led Talent at Fleetsmith where he grew the team from 45 to 90 in less than six months, culminating in Fleetsmith’sSANDHYA HEGDE
Sandhya Hegde is a Partner at Unusual Ventures, leading investments in enterprise SaaS platforms. She is particularly interested in technical founders who love data and design. Prior to Unusual, she was an early employee at Amplitude, joining as a product manager at the single-digit ARR stage. She grew the company ranks leading pivotalefforts
INTRODUCTION TO THE MODERN GTM Introduction. . Perhaps the most important determinant of a startup’s success today is the founder’s ability to successfully execute on the correct Go To Market (GTM) strategy. The optimal GTM for an enterprise startup is vastly different than it was a decade ago. Founders must now embrace that the correct GTM begins at productstrategy
MISSION – UNUSUAL VENTURES An authentic beginning. John and Jyoti started Unusual Ventures by reconsidering everything about seed-stage investing born from their experience as a long-time investor and serial entrepreneur. From a place of empathy, they started Unusual Ventures to provide a full range of seed stage services that are specifically designed to meetthe needs
FIELD GUIDE
Field Guide. Our tactical field guide provides you with all of the best practices and tools founders need to solve the most challenging early-stage problems. Learn from over two dozen founders how to go from 0 to 1 and start a company — from honing in on your insight to quitting your job, finding a co-founder (s), and raising capital ACADEMY – UNUSUAL VENTURES The Unusual Academy is a hands-on learning program where select founders learn how to level up as leaders. Over the course of seven half-day sessions in the Bay Area you’ll receive tactical advice for overcoming the most difficult early stage obstacles. You may also be eligible to receive a meaningful investment of capital (up to $1M). CONTACT – UNUSUAL VENTURES Send us a note and we'll be in touch. For LP inquires, please email karen@unusual.vc. Unusual Ventures Office. 200 Middlefield Rd. Suite 110. Menlo Park, CA 94025. 1-650-434-0930.BEN HUFFMAN
Ben Huffman is the Co-Founder and CEO of Contra, the first professional community for the independent digital workforce.JOHN VRIONIS
John Vrionis is a Co-Founder and Partner at Unusual Ventures, leading investments in enterprise startups and is the creator of Unusual Academy. Originally from Georgia, John attended Harvard where he studied economics and played soccer. His drive to learn pushed him to earn his master’s degree in computer science from the University of ANDY JOHNS - UNUSUAL Andy Johns is a Partner at Unusual Ventures, leading and building its consumer portfolio. In particular, he’s interested in marketplaces, social and content products, and subscription services. Prior to Unusual, he spent 15 years working at consumer startups, including Facebook, Twitter, Quora, and Wealthfront, where he was president.KRISTY LANDERS
Kristina (Kristy) Landers is the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at Unusual Ventures. Prior to joining Unusual, she was the VP of Finance at August Capital for 6 years, as well as Tax Manager at PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP for the 7 years preceding. At August, Kristy spearheaded many initiatives to modernize their accountingfunctions including
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Jordan is a Senior Associate supporting Unusual’s Enterprise Team. Prior to Unusual, Jordan was a Forward Deployed Solutions Leader at C3.ai, where he led teams of engineers and data scientists on some of the largest production AI deployments in the world. In addition to C3, Jordan has worked with dozens of other startups throughout hisHALEY DAIBER
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Gain the six key skills every founder needs for success in the early days. Learn how Unusual is raising the bar for what early stage founders should expect from investors. Overcome the hardest early stage obstacles through our hands on academy. Build your company with our expert team of recruiting, sales and marketing operators. PORTFOLIO – UNUSUAL VENTURESJOHN VRIONIS UNUSUAL VENTURESUNPOPULARVENTURES
Chris Bennett, Arrel Gray. Shujinko provides an automated audit preparation platform that simplifies, automates, and modernizes cloud compliance. Customers achieve compliance 3x faster, saving thousands of people hours and dollars, and freeing up scarce engineering resources to focus on critical business priorities. TEAM – UNUSUAL VENTURESJOHN VRIONIS UNUSUAL VENTURESUNPOPULAR VENTURESUNUSUAL COMPANY Gain the six key skills every founder needs for success in the early days. Learn how Unusual is raising the bar for what early stage founders should expect from investors. Overcome the hardest early stage obstacles through our hands on academy. Build your company with our expert team of recruiting, sales and marketing operators. MISSION – UNUSUAL VENTURES An authentic beginning. John and Jyoti started Unusual Ventures by reconsidering everything about seed-stage investing born from their experience as a long-time investor and serial entrepreneur. From a place of empathy, they started Unusual Ventures to provide a full range of seed stage services that are specifically designed to meetthe needs
CONTACT – UNUSUAL VENTURESJOHN VRIONIS UNUSUAL VENTURESUNPOPULAR VENTURESUNUSUAL COMPANY Send us a note and we'll be in touch. For LP inquires, please email karen@unusual.vc. Unusual Ventures Office. 200 Middlefield Rd. Suite 110. Menlo Park, CA 94025. 1-650-434-0930. BLOG – UNUSUAL VENTURES Discover our community of authentic founders. Gain the six key skills every founder needs for success in the early days. Learn how Unusual is raising the bar for what early stage founders should expect from investors. Overcome the hardest early stage obstacles through ourhands on academy.
CAREERS – UNUSUAL VENTURES Discover our community of authentic founders. Gain the six key skills every founder needs for success in the early days. Learn how Unusual is raising the bar for what early stage founders should expect from investors. Overcome the hardest early stage obstacles through ourhands on academy.
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Field Guide. Our tactical field guide provides you with all of the best practices and tools founders need to solve the most challenging early-stage problems. Learn from over two dozen founders how to go from 0 to 1 and start a company — from honing in on your insight to quitting your job, finding a co-founder (s), and raising capitalCHRIS MARTY
Chris is the Director of Talent at Unusual Ventures and partners with founders to build high-performing early teams. He joins Unusual after nearly a decade working in Talent at technology startups. Prior to Unusual, Chris led Talent at Fleetsmith where he grew the team from 45 to 90 in less than six months, culminating in Fleetsmith’s INTRODUCTION TO THE MODERN GTM Introduction. . Perhaps the most important determinant of a startup’s success today is the founder’s ability to successfully execute on the correct Go To Market (GTM) strategy. The optimal GTM for an enterprise startup is vastly different than it was a decade ago. Founders must now embrace that the correct GTM begins at productstrategy
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Gain the six key skills every founder needs for success in the early days. Learn how Unusual is raising the bar for what early stage founders should expect from investors. Overcome the hardest early stage obstacles through our hands on academy. Build your company with our expert team of recruiting, sales and marketing operators. PORTFOLIO – UNUSUAL VENTURESJOHN VRIONIS UNUSUAL VENTURESUNPOPULARVENTURES
Chris Bennett, Arrel Gray. Shujinko provides an automated audit preparation platform that simplifies, automates, and modernizes cloud compliance. Customers achieve compliance 3x faster, saving thousands of people hours and dollars, and freeing up scarce engineering resources to focus on critical business priorities. TEAM – UNUSUAL VENTURESJOHN VRIONIS UNUSUAL VENTURESUNPOPULAR VENTURESUNUSUAL COMPANY Gain the six key skills every founder needs for success in the early days. Learn how Unusual is raising the bar for what early stage founders should expect from investors. Overcome the hardest early stage obstacles through our hands on academy. Build your company with our expert team of recruiting, sales and marketing operators. MISSION – UNUSUAL VENTURES An authentic beginning. John and Jyoti started Unusual Ventures by reconsidering everything about seed-stage investing born from their experience as a long-time investor and serial entrepreneur. From a place of empathy, they started Unusual Ventures to provide a full range of seed stage services that are specifically designed to meetthe needs
CONTACT – UNUSUAL VENTURESJOHN VRIONIS UNUSUAL VENTURESUNPOPULAR VENTURESUNUSUAL COMPANY Send us a note and we'll be in touch. For LP inquires, please email karen@unusual.vc. Unusual Ventures Office. 200 Middlefield Rd. Suite 110. Menlo Park, CA 94025. 1-650-434-0930. BLOG – UNUSUAL VENTURES Discover our community of authentic founders. Gain the six key skills every founder needs for success in the early days. Learn how Unusual is raising the bar for what early stage founders should expect from investors. Overcome the hardest early stage obstacles through ourhands on academy.
CAREERS – UNUSUAL VENTURES Discover our community of authentic founders. Gain the six key skills every founder needs for success in the early days. Learn how Unusual is raising the bar for what early stage founders should expect from investors. Overcome the hardest early stage obstacles through ourhands on academy.
FIELD GUIDE
Field Guide. Our tactical field guide provides you with all of the best practices and tools founders need to solve the most challenging early-stage problems. Learn from over two dozen founders how to go from 0 to 1 and start a company — from honing in on your insight to quitting your job, finding a co-founder (s), and raising capitalCHRIS MARTY
Chris is the Director of Talent at Unusual Ventures and partners with founders to build high-performing early teams. He joins Unusual after nearly a decade working in Talent at technology startups. Prior to Unusual, Chris led Talent at Fleetsmith where he grew the team from 45 to 90 in less than six months, culminating in Fleetsmith’s INTRODUCTION TO THE MODERN GTM Introduction. . Perhaps the most important determinant of a startup’s success today is the founder’s ability to successfully execute on the correct Go To Market (GTM) strategy. The optimal GTM for an enterprise startup is vastly different than it was a decade ago. Founders must now embrace that the correct GTM begins at productstrategy
MISSION – UNUSUAL VENTURES An authentic beginning. John and Jyoti started Unusual Ventures by reconsidering everything about seed-stage investing born from their experience as a long-time investor and serial entrepreneur. From a place of empathy, they started Unusual Ventures to provide a full range of seed stage services that are specifically designed to meetthe needs
BLOG – UNUSUAL VENTURES Discover our community of authentic founders. Gain the six key skills every founder needs for success in the early days. Learn how Unusual is raising the bar for what early stage founders should expect from investors. Overcome the hardest early stage obstacles through ourhands on academy.
ACADEMY – UNUSUAL VENTURES The Unusual Academy is a hands-on learning program where select founders learn how to level up as leaders. Over the course of seven half-day sessions in the Bay Area you’ll receive tactical advice for overcoming the most difficult early stage obstacles. You may also be eligible to receive a meaningful investment of capital (up to $1M). CONTACT – UNUSUAL VENTURES Send us a note and we'll be in touch. For LP inquires, please email karen@unusual.vc. Unusual Ventures Office. 200 Middlefield Rd. Suite 110. Menlo Park, CA 94025. 1-650-434-0930.GET AHEAD PLATFORM
We created the Get Ahead Platform because we wanted our founders to have access to the best marketing, sales, and recruiting resources that are so essential early on, but impossible to find or afford as a new startup founder. Scott Schwarzhoff. Operating Partner. Bill Hodak.Marketing Partner.
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Create meaningful connections and explore your idea alongside an incredible group of founders in the early stages of building their consumer or enterprise startups. A former CPO of Slack, now on a mission is to empower local businesses. . A former product builderat
SIGN IN | UNUSUAL VENTURES FOUNDER PORTAL Back to Unusual.vc. Forgot your password? Don't have an account yet? CONTRA’S UNUSUAL JOURNEY In our inaugural Unusual Journey piece, Contra's Co-Founders Ben Huffman and Gajus Kuizinas share thoughts on their partnership with the Unusual Team, specifically their work with Partner Sarah Leary and the GAP Team's Chris Marty.BEN HUFFMAN
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John Vrionis is a Co-Founder and Partner at Unusual Ventures, leading investments in enterprise startups and is the creator of Unusual Academy. Originally from Georgia, John attended Harvard where he studied economics and played soccer. His drive to learn pushed him to earn his master’s degree in computer science from the University ofUNUSUAL VENTURES
Gain the six key skills every founder needs for success in the early days. Learn how Unusual is raising the bar for what early stage founders should expect from investors. Overcome the hardest early stage obstacles through our hands on academy. Build your company with our expert team of recruiting, sales and marketing operators. PORTFOLIO – UNUSUAL VENTURESJOHN VRIONIS UNUSUAL VENTURESUNPOPULARVENTURES
Chris Bennett, Arrel Gray. Shujinko provides an automated audit preparation platform that simplifies, automates, and modernizes cloud compliance. Customers achieve compliance 3x faster, saving thousands of people hours and dollars, and freeing up scarce engineering resources to focus on critical business priorities. TEAM – UNUSUAL VENTURESJOHN VRIONIS UNUSUAL VENTURESUNPOPULAR VENTURESUNUSUAL COMPANY Gain the six key skills every founder needs for success in the early days. Learn how Unusual is raising the bar for what early stage founders should expect from investors. Overcome the hardest early stage obstacles through our hands on academy. Build your company with our expert team of recruiting, sales and marketing operators. MISSION – UNUSUAL VENTURES An authentic beginning. John and Jyoti started Unusual Ventures by reconsidering everything about seed-stage investing born from their experience as a long-time investor and serial entrepreneur. From a place of empathy, they started Unusual Ventures to provide a full range of seed stage services that are specifically designed to meetthe needs
CONTACT – UNUSUAL VENTURESJOHN VRIONIS UNUSUAL VENTURESUNPOPULAR VENTURESUNUSUAL COMPANY Send us a note and we'll be in touch. For LP inquires, please email karen@unusual.vc. Unusual Ventures Office. 200 Middlefield Rd. Suite 110. Menlo Park, CA 94025. 1-650-434-0930. BLOG – UNUSUAL VENTURES Discover our community of authentic founders. Gain the six key skills every founder needs for success in the early days. Learn how Unusual is raising the bar for what early stage founders should expect from investors. Overcome the hardest early stage obstacles through ourhands on academy.
CAREERS – UNUSUAL VENTURES Discover our community of authentic founders. Gain the six key skills every founder needs for success in the early days. Learn how Unusual is raising the bar for what early stage founders should expect from investors. Overcome the hardest early stage obstacles through ourhands on academy.
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Field Guide. Our tactical field guide provides you with all of the best practices and tools founders need to solve the most challenging early-stage problems. Learn from over two dozen founders how to go from 0 to 1 and start a company — from honing in on your insight to quitting your job, finding a co-founder (s), and raising capitalCHRIS MARTY
Chris is the Director of Talent at Unusual Ventures and partners with founders to build high-performing early teams. He joins Unusual after nearly a decade working in Talent at technology startups. Prior to Unusual, Chris led Talent at Fleetsmith where he grew the team from 45 to 90 in less than six months, culminating in Fleetsmith’s INTRODUCTION TO THE MODERN GTM Introduction. . Perhaps the most important determinant of a startup’s success today is the founder’s ability to successfully execute on the correct Go To Market (GTM) strategy. The optimal GTM for an enterprise startup is vastly different than it was a decade ago. Founders must now embrace that the correct GTM begins at productstrategy
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Gain the six key skills every founder needs for success in the early days. Learn how Unusual is raising the bar for what early stage founders should expect from investors. Overcome the hardest early stage obstacles through our hands on academy. Build your company with our expert team of recruiting, sales and marketing operators. PORTFOLIO – UNUSUAL VENTURESJOHN VRIONIS UNUSUAL VENTURESUNPOPULARVENTURES
Chris Bennett, Arrel Gray. Shujinko provides an automated audit preparation platform that simplifies, automates, and modernizes cloud compliance. Customers achieve compliance 3x faster, saving thousands of people hours and dollars, and freeing up scarce engineering resources to focus on critical business priorities. TEAM – UNUSUAL VENTURESJOHN VRIONIS UNUSUAL VENTURESUNPOPULAR VENTURESUNUSUAL COMPANY Gain the six key skills every founder needs for success in the early days. Learn how Unusual is raising the bar for what early stage founders should expect from investors. Overcome the hardest early stage obstacles through our hands on academy. Build your company with our expert team of recruiting, sales and marketing operators. MISSION – UNUSUAL VENTURES An authentic beginning. John and Jyoti started Unusual Ventures by reconsidering everything about seed-stage investing born from their experience as a long-time investor and serial entrepreneur. From a place of empathy, they started Unusual Ventures to provide a full range of seed stage services that are specifically designed to meetthe needs
CONTACT – UNUSUAL VENTURESJOHN VRIONIS UNUSUAL VENTURESUNPOPULAR VENTURESUNUSUAL COMPANY Send us a note and we'll be in touch. For LP inquires, please email karen@unusual.vc. Unusual Ventures Office. 200 Middlefield Rd. Suite 110. Menlo Park, CA 94025. 1-650-434-0930. BLOG – UNUSUAL VENTURES Discover our community of authentic founders. Gain the six key skills every founder needs for success in the early days. Learn how Unusual is raising the bar for what early stage founders should expect from investors. Overcome the hardest early stage obstacles through ourhands on academy.
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FIELD GUIDE
Field Guide. Our tactical field guide provides you with all of the best practices and tools founders need to solve the most challenging early-stage problems. Learn from over two dozen founders how to go from 0 to 1 and start a company — from honing in on your insight to quitting your job, finding a co-founder (s), and raising capitalCHRIS MARTY
Chris is the Director of Talent at Unusual Ventures and partners with founders to build high-performing early teams. He joins Unusual after nearly a decade working in Talent at technology startups. Prior to Unusual, Chris led Talent at Fleetsmith where he grew the team from 45 to 90 in less than six months, culminating in Fleetsmith’s INTRODUCTION TO THE MODERN GTM Introduction. . Perhaps the most important determinant of a startup’s success today is the founder’s ability to successfully execute on the correct Go To Market (GTM) strategy. The optimal GTM for an enterprise startup is vastly different than it was a decade ago. Founders must now embrace that the correct GTM begins at productstrategy
MISSION – UNUSUAL VENTURES An authentic beginning. John and Jyoti started Unusual Ventures by reconsidering everything about seed-stage investing born from their experience as a long-time investor and serial entrepreneur. From a place of empathy, they started Unusual Ventures to provide a full range of seed stage services that are specifically designed to meetthe needs
BLOG – UNUSUAL VENTURES Discover our community of authentic founders. Gain the six key skills every founder needs for success in the early days. Learn how Unusual is raising the bar for what early stage founders should expect from investors. Overcome the hardest early stage obstacles through ourhands on academy.
ACADEMY – UNUSUAL VENTURES The Unusual Academy is a hands-on learning program where select founders learn how to level up as leaders. Over the course of seven half-day sessions in the Bay Area you’ll receive tactical advice for overcoming the most difficult early stage obstacles. You may also be eligible to receive a meaningful investment of capital (up to $1M). CONTACT – UNUSUAL VENTURES Send us a note and we'll be in touch. For LP inquires, please email karen@unusual.vc. Unusual Ventures Office. 200 Middlefield Rd. Suite 110. Menlo Park, CA 94025. 1-650-434-0930.GET AHEAD PLATFORM
We created the Get Ahead Platform because we wanted our founders to have access to the best marketing, sales, and recruiting resources that are so essential early on, but impossible to find or afford as a new startup founder. Scott Schwarzhoff. Operating Partner. Bill Hodak.Marketing Partner.
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WE INVEST IN SEED AND SERIES A STARTUPS BECAUSE WE KNOW HOW TO WINEARLY.
IN OUR EXPERIENCE, THE THREE TOUGHEST OBSTACLES DURING THE EARLY STAGEARE:
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TEAM: Adding rock star technical talent.*
CUSTOMER MEETINGS: Getting enough conversations to validate yourinsight.
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TRACTION: Fostering evangelical users and a beachhead market. Achieving these milestones means you’ve cleared the hardest part of your journey. But time is your scarcest resource. Having a partner who knows the map and can carry some of the weight will speed you up and keep you on the path. THAT’S US. We’re the only venture firm focused entirely on the early stage journey for entrepreneurs that combines this type of expertise with real, hands-on resources to build your team, tell your story, and achieve breakthrough growth. -------------------------UNUSUAL EXPERTISE
We invest in ENTERPRISE AND CONSUMER TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES, and focus exclusively on accelerating founders through their toughest early challenges. Our partners have built multi-billion dollar companies from scratch (AppDynamics) and backed dozens of category-leading startups (DataStax, Mulesoft, Nimble Storage, Nicira, Heptio). But that’s not where our strengths end. We’ve built out an operating partnership that’s unprecedented in early stage venture with top minds in recruiting, sales, marketing and finance – ALL OF WHOM GO TO WORK FOR THE STARTUPS IN OUR PORTFOLIO:*
Recruiting and closing candidates*
Generating dozens of customer prospect engagements*
Crafting messaging that works*
Building a best-in-class back office Learn more about the Team ------------------------- WE DON’T JUST ADVISE — WE DELIVER Our approach is based on ‘DOING’ VS. ‘ADVISING.’ And we’ve backed this up with two major innovations for early stage venture – Unusual Academy and the Unusual Get Ahead Platform , both designed from first principals to equip entrepreneurs with best practices and hands-on execution building their companies at the early stage.UNUSUAL ACADEMY
The only customized program that equips founders with the tactics, network and funding they need to get from early insight to a repeatable sales process:*
Seven sessions hand-picked to tackle the most important challenges: finding early customers, crafting your initial go-to-market, fundraising, hiring, and leadership.*
Deep engagement with master practitioners like AppDynamics Founder Jyoti Bansal, Adam Grant, Wealthfront CEO Andy Rachleff, and Executive Coach Maggie Hensle, who provide bespoke mentorship and tacticaltools.
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Highly interactive workshops that put your challenges at the center.*
Eligibility to receive investment capital (up to $1M) to jumpstartyour company.
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Unusual employs top experts and makes them part of your team to help you accomplish 4 critical goals:*
Hiring remarkable talent.*
Getting in front of 50+ customer prospects.*
Crafting a story you can use.*
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