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Calling all founders! Our team Unusual Ventures put together a very short survey to hear what's important when you're deciding to work with investors. We would appreciate 2 minutes of your time to share your input - thank you! fqr5as6qnge.typeform.com/UVsurvey2024?t…

Wayfair is using AI to augment and improve customer service and sales interactions. As AI-enhanced capabilities become integrated into fundamental company workflows, it’s crucial they meet Wayfair.com's high standards of service excellence. 🚀 Enter Quotient AI.

I’m super excited for this upcoming cycle of Unusual Academy, which always brings together an elite group of founders who build and learn alongside each other. Applications are now open!

Are you a founder looking for $100K - $2M in investment? Unusual Academy is back and we're looking for companies to build with. Unusual Academy offers an elite, hand-picked cohort the opportunity to receive personalized mentorship from top enterprise software founders and

Super excited to moderate the VC panel Kubecon_ CNCF #StartupFest with awesome investors Crystal Huang (GV), Astasia Myers (Felicis) & Natalie Vais (Spark Capital)! We'll be talking about the $100B opportunity across cloud-native #AI, #OSS & more. Check out

Every founder's journey is unique. Unusual Ventures was founded by John Vrionis and Jyoti Bansal with the core belief that we could provide meaningful help to early-stage founders - in a tailored, customized way. Unusual Academy brings together an elite group of founders seeking to

Unusual Academy applications are due TONIGHT! Apply by midnight PT to be considered: academy.unusual.vc Building a company can be challenging, but it CAN be distilled into a process. If you are an early-stage founder who wants to learn how to reach customers through cold

Excited to partner with Spiros Xanthos & Mayank Agarwal again!

Enjoyed this conversation with Grace Gong about #AI, #opensource & early-stage investing / company building!

What will gross margins for foundation model companies look like in the coming years? Cloud providers serve as an illustrative example and the answer is: probably higher than one would expect.  With OpenAI’s price drops and significant spend on compute, some may have thought

A common failure mode of technical founders is thinking that if you build a cool product, everyone will want it, i.e. distribution and GTM will take care of itself.  A great product earns you the right to compete and is a necessary but (by itself) insufficient requisite for

Pricing AI products is a hot topic right now. How can early-stage AI founders think about it? One way is to start with a tried-and-true framework, which generally categorizes pricing into one of three approaches: 1. Value-based 2. Cost-based 3. Competition-based With #1, the

Huge congrats to Feross and the entire Socket team on their $40M Series B! The level and pace of their innovation in developer security is really remarkable. The Unusual Ventures team and I are proud to have supported Feross from the very beginning. Thrilled to see them

Nearly every great product company is a great infrastructure software company. Infrastructure enabled Google to deliver the most relevant search results and the fastest browser, Facebook to provide the most personalized social feed, Netflix to stream with the best viewer

Super excited for Kubecon_ / #CloudNativeStartupFest coming up on November 12 in Salt Lake City - I'll be speaking / hosting a VC panel with Astasia Myers, Natalie Vais & Erik Nordlander! Join us to hear an investor perspective on the biggest opportunities for founders building in #AI &

If you'll be in Salt Lake City next week for CNCF's The Linux Foundation's Kubecon_, join me, Natalie Vais, Astasia Myers & Erik Nordlander on Tuesday for a VC panel on the $100B opportunity in cloud-native #AI! We'll be discussing the market opportunities, trends & business models

Thanks for your insights Astasia Myers, Natalie Vais & Erik Nordlander! Founders Kubecon_ got to benefit from a ton of awesome #VC brainpower on the stage today! Appreciate Kelsey Hightower & Megan Reynolds 👩‍💻 for organizing #CNCF StartupFest!