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Unusual Ventures adds Lars Albright as GP

The Menlo Park, California-based venture firm adds Albright as it opens a Boston office in Boston to target the tech community in the Boston area and the northeast. Sarah Leary, an existing venture partner will join him in the Boston office.

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Unusual Ventures adds a GP

Wei Lien Dang, a co-founder and head of product at container security company StackRox, has joined Unusual Ventures as a general partner.

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Unusual Ventures adds Sandhya Hegde to its investment team

The Menlo Park firm names Sandhya Hegde, formerly with Khosla and Sequoia in India, as its newest partner.

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Cybersecurity start-up Traceable launches, headed up by Jyoti Bansal

Traceable emerged from stealth with $20m in funding from Unusual Ventures and BIG Labs.

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Unusual Ventures adds another investing partner to team

Unusual named Noah Carr, formerly with Point72 Ventures, as a partner, and Bill Hodak, a VP at LaunchDarkly, as its marketing partner.

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Kloud.io raises $4m in seed

The San Jose company Kloud.io has raised $4 million in seed funding led by Unusual Ventures, with participation from Jason Calacanis and Firebolt Ventures.

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Shasta Ventures leads $17 mln round for Banyan Security

Banyan Security, a provider of cloud-centric secure remote access solutions, has raised $17 million in funding. Shasta Ventures led the round with participation from Unusual Ventures.

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Shasta Ventures leads $17 mln round for Banyan Security

Banyan Security, a provider of cloud-centric secure remote access solutions, has raised $17 million in funding. Shasta Ventures led the round with participation from Unusual Ventures.

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Offices

marker icon200 Middlefield Rd, Suite 110, Menlo Park, 94025, United States
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Contacts

NameJob titleLocationEmail
Key Contact
user imageMr. Brett Teele
Job titleChief Financial Officer and Partner
LocationSan Francisco, United States
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user imageMr. John Vrionis
Job titleCo-Founder and Managing Partner
LocationMenlo Park, United States
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user imageMr. Lars Albright
Job titleGeneral Partner
LocationMenlo Park, United States
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user imageMr. Jyoti Bansal
Job titleCo-Founder and Entrepreneur Partner
LocationMenlo Park, United States
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Unusual Ventures funds managed

Closed funds: 5

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Close dateMay 2022
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Close dateJan 2020
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Close dateNov 2019
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Vivun pockets $75m Series C

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Goldcast fetches $10m seed

Goldcast, a purpose-built platform for B2B field and event marketers, has raised $10 million in seed funding.

VC-backed CloudBees hires CTO

Keswani most recently served as group CTO at HSBC.

Launchable nets $9.5m Series A

Launchable, an intelligence platform layer for all software testing, has secured $9.5 million in Series A funding.

Rasgo Intelligence attracts $20m Series A

Rasgo Intelligence, the feature store that is transforming how data scientists engineer, collaborate on, and operationalize machine learning features, has secured $20 million in Series A funding.

YourBase scores $5m seed

YourBase, a provider of developer productivity solutions, has raised $5 million in seed funding.

Styra pulls in $40m Series B

Styra Inc, a provider of cloud-native authorization solutions, has secured $40 million in Series B funding.