# Unusual Ventures

> Unusual Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 182 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, United States
- Total investments: 182
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 32%
- Fund size: $485M
- Last fund: May 2022
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/unusualventures/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/Unusual_VC
- Website: https://www.unusual.vc

Unusual Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital offering hands-on support and expertise to startups on their early-stage journey. It was founded in 2018 and is based in Menlo Park, California.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.8M–$20M |
| Series A | $9.5M–$25M |
| Series B | $25M–$60M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 50 | 27% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 27 | 15% |
| Information Technology | 24 | 13% |
| SaaS | 14 | 8% |
| Machine Learning | 14 | 8% |

127 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 70 | 38% |
| Series A | 42 | 23% |
| Series B | 20 | 11% |
| Pre-Seed | 13 | 7% |
| Funding Round | 8 | 4% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 98 | 54% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 2% |
| Israel | 1 | 1% |
| Sweden | 1 | 1% |
| Germany | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alisa Parrett | Vice President | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alisa-parrett |
| Bill Hodak | Operating Partner - Marketing and GTM | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bill-hodak |
| Caleb Bushner | Vice President of Marketing | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/caleb-bushner |
| Calvin Ling | Director of Finance and Investment Operations | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/calvin-ling |
| Corinne Moran | Senior Associate, Sales GTM | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/corinne-moran-6ec8 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Rime | Rime develops speech technologies for a wide range of customers. The company works on speech generation with a deep understanding of linguistic and sociolinguistic phenomena needed to create the next generation of text-to-speech tooling. | $24M | Series A | Jul 15, 2026 |  |
| Miravoice | Miravoice builds precision AI voice agents to automate phone surveys and interviews. Collect more data, faster, for less. | $6.3M | Seed | Apr 02, 2026 |  |
| Raven.io | Raven.io provides a runtime application protection platform that secures cloud‑native software by monitoring code execution behavior and preventing exploits as they occur. Its technology operates inside applications to detect abnormal execution patterns and block malicious code before it runs, addressing traditional security gaps that reactivetools often miss. The platform includes features for runtime vulnerability prioritization, runtime patching that doesn’t require source code changes, and anomaly detection and response to surface and respond to threats in real time. Raven.io’s solution supports a range of programming languages and cloud deployments, allowing security and engineering teams to apply security controls across containers, Kubernetes environments, and compute instances. The company’s tooling also provides forensic data on suspicious activity, helping users understand the context of attempted attacks and make informed decisions about remediation. Raven.io integrates with existing development and operations workflows to extend application protection throughout the software lifecycle. Its approach centers on continuous observation of library behavior and execution flow rather than relying on signature‑based or external perimeter defenses. Raven.io’s platform is designed for environments where visibility into runtime behavior and real‑time threat mitigation are essential for securing applications against evolving exploit techniques. | $20M | Seed | Mar 18, 2026 |  |
| Qdrant | Qdrant develops vector databases and search technology designed to support artificial intelligence applications that require similarity search, recommendation, and semantic retrieval capabilities. The company’s core offering is a vector-oriented database that stores high-dimensional numeric representations of data, enabling efficient search andretrieval operations based on similarity rather than exact matches. This allows applications such as semantic search, content recommendation, and clustering to operate on large data sets of text, images, and other unstructured content. The database supports real‑time indexing and querying of vectors generated by machine learning models, enabling developers to integrate AI‑driven search and recommendation features into applications. Its APIs allow software systems to submit vectors representing user queries or content items and receive the most similar vectors based on nearest-neighbor search algorithms. This capability is commonly used to surface semantically relevant search results or related content recommendations in applications involving natural language processing, image similarity, and personalization systems. | $50M | Series B | Mar 12, 2026 |  |
| Theia Insights | Leveraging AI to transform information into insights | $8M | Series A | Feb 27, 2026 |  |
| EnFi | EnFi accelerate complex credit analysis and risk monitoring services. | $15M | Series A | Feb 04, 2026 |  |
| Bits Technology | Bits Technology connects data sources & orchestrates workflows for financial tech services. | $14.2M | Series A | Feb 02, 2026 |  |
| Railway | Import Infrastructure No Docker. No AWS. No Kubernetes Just Code | $100M | Series B | Jan 22, 2026 |  |
| Resolve.ai | Resolve AI is a firm dedicated on automating software processes. The company creates AI solutions that can automatically troubleshoot and resolve manufacturing challenges. | $125M | Series A | Dec 19, 2025 |  |
| Harness | Harness is a software delivery platform that provides tools for automating code integration, testing, deployment, and verification across the software development lifecycle. It offers continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines, GitOps support, and AI-driven features that assist in generating and troubleshooting workflows withoutmanual scripting. The platform includes modules for managing feature flags, infrastructure as code, artifact registries, and options for automating security and cloud cost controls. Harness also supplies an open-source edition that enables teams to configure development environments and manage end-to-end delivery processes from a unified interface. Its services aim to streamline release practices, reduce manual effort, and bring coherence to complex software delivery operations. | $40M | Secondary Market | Dec 11, 2025 |  |

10 of 182 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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## FAQ

### What does Unusual Ventures invest in?

Unusual Ventures invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 182 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Unusual Ventures's check size?

Unusual Ventures typically joins rounds of $2.8M–$20M at Seed, $9.5M–$25M at Series A and $25M–$60M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Unusual Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Unusual Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Unusual Ventures?

The team at Unusual Ventures includes Alisa Parrett (Vice President), Bill Hodak (Operating Partner - Marketing and GTM) and Caleb Bushner (Vice President of Marketing), among 15 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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