Samantha Mckenna is the founder of SamSales and a leader in building go-to-market strategies. She has spent her nearly 15+... more

Relyance AI is a global privacy compliance and data governance platform that allows enterprises to protect customer data, avoid expensive... more

Clay is an AI-powered platform for sales prospecting that gathers data from over 75 sources to build lists and help... more

Scribe makes it easy to share how you do your work by creating automated documentation. Scribe raised a Series B... more

Eightfold AI is a talent management platform used by hundreds of large organizations like Vodafone and Activision Blizzard. It helps... more

Monte Carlo is an end-to-end data observability platform that monitors pipelines for missing or inaccurate data. Last valued at $1.6B,... more

Perplexity is an AI-powered search engine that answers user questions. Founded in 2022 and valued at over $1B, Perplexity recently... more

Everlaw is a legal tech company started in 2011 that helps law firms and corporations run what’s called “e-discovery”— essentially... more

Deepgram is a voice AI company that has built an incredible reputation in the market for the quality of its... more

Material Security is an email security company that protects an organization's users and data particularly across Microsoft 365 and Google... more

Hightouch is a composable customer data platform. It helps companies collect and sync user data into ad platforms, CRMs, email... more

Notion is a productivity platform that blends all your workplace apps into a single platform, including team projects, wikis, and... more

Domino Data Lab was founded in 2013 and was one of the early innovators in the space known as MLOps.... more

In this episode, Sandhya Hegde chats with Julianna Lamb, co-founder and CTO of Stytch. Stytch is a comprehensive tool for... more

In this episode, Sandhya Hegde chats with Andy Byrne, co-founder and CEO of Clari. Clari was started in 2012 and... more

In this episode, Sandhya Hegde and Wei Lien Dang chat about everything that happened in the world of AI Startups... more

In this episode, Sandhya Hegde chats with Shishir Mehrotra, CEO and co-founder of Coda. Coda is a collaborative workspace that brings... more

MosaicML is the developer of open source infrastructure for training LLMs. The company was acquired by Databricks for $1.3 billion... more

Full episode transcript here: www.unusual.vc/post/sprigs-product-market-fit-journey Sprig is an AI-powered product feedback platform; it helps teams run in-product surveys and session replays... more

Solo is an open-source developer platform designed to connect applications with service meshes across any software infrastructure. Their core promise... more

Full episode transcript: https://www.unusual.vc/post/writers-product-market-fit-journey Started in 2020, Writer is an enterprise-grade generative AI platform for larger, security-conscious companies. Writer has over... more

Open source AI models have become key drivers of innovation and collaboration. An increasing number of developers and end users... more

Started in 2017, Deliverr is an E-commerce fulfillment company that integrates with marketplaces such as Shopify and Walmart. The company... more

Forward is an AI-based healthcare unicorn that combines private doctors with technology to enable data-driven, insurance-free primary care. Forward is... more

Sysdig is a cloud native application protection platform that helps stop cloud and container security attacks. In this episode, Sysdig’s... more

Gretel is a synthetic data platform that allows developers to generate artificial data sets with the same characteristics as real... more

Instabase is an enterprise-focused application platform that allows businesses to automate document processing from unstructured data sources such as bank... more

In this episode, we are debuting “Bright and Early” — an Unusual Ventures interview series with early hires at iconic... more

Weights & Biases is a developer-focused MLOps platform last valued at over $1 billion. Their platform helps developers streamline their... more

6sense is an AI-powered ABM platform that is focused on arming revenue teams with the right information to engage with... more

Hex is a data platform that allows teams to streamline their entire workflow using collaborative notebooks, BI, and docs. Hex... more

The space of enterprise search and knowledge management is on the cusp of being dramatically transformed by AI-native tools that... more

Vercel is an open-source platform that helps front-end developers build and ship dynamic web applications leveraging Jamstack (https://jamstack.org/). Last valued... more

Amplitude is the world’s #1 product analytics platform, currently trading at $1.6B. Launched in 2014, Amplitude started out as a... more

In this highlights episode, host Sandhya Hegde shares her framework for the three modes of product-led growth and how some... more

Harness is an emerging leader in the CICD (continuous development) space. Last valued at $3.7B in a 2022 fundraise, this... more

LaunchDarkly is a pioneer in the feature management space. Founded in 2014, while the agile and cloud movements were still... more

Jasper is a leading AI-driven content platform with over 80,000 customers. Going from launch to unicorn status in 18 months,... more

Aurora Solar is a solar design platform that has accelerated small business growth in the solar energy industry. Through it,... more

Before Webflow, creating a website required both a designer and a coder. Now, designers can build websites without code or... more

SOC2 certification is a daunting process for startup founders but increasingly necessary to land customers. Our guest today was among... more

The SQL database that sits under most applications in the world is old technology that was not built with the... more

In today's episode, we hear from Andy Rachleff, who coined the term “product-market fit” which served as the inspiration for... more

Early revenue can sometimes fool you into thinking that you have product-market fit. Startups begin to focus on growth without... more

Successful startups need to solve a problem, but there is a big difference between a founder knowing a problem exists... more

Since the rise of COVID-19, every company has adopted remote work, and our guest's mission is to create a more... more

While some startups experiment and pivot their way into product-market fit, others have founders with a unique insight that needs... more

StackRox is a security startup born in 2015. After many initial setbacks, StackRox went on to become a leader in... more

Henry Ward joins us to talk about how his team of fewer than 20 employees scaled their startup, then known... more

How do you know when an early-stage startup idea is working, and what do you do if it isn’t?  Today we... more