Invests in
Locations:
Min Investment:
$100,000.00Max Investment:
$500,000.00Target Investment:
$250,000.00
Lists including Lars
Investments
Theia Insights
Total Funding: $7M
Navro
Total Funding: $38M
Paxton AI
Total Funding: $6M
Portrait Analytics
Total Funding: $10M
Bits Technology
Total Funding: $5M
Causemo
Total Funding: $4M
clypd
Total Funding: $29M
Remix Media
Total Funding: $2M
Button
Total Funding: $64M
Drizly
Total Funding: $67M
Work Experience
2022
General Partner
2022
Unusual Ventures invests in pre-seed and seed stage startups. Our mission is to redefine early stage investing and raise the bar for what entrepreneurs should expect from a seed investment firm. Current investments include - Navro, Portrait Analytics, Theia, Enfi, TYB, Bits Technology, among others.
Investor, Board Member & Advisor
2010
Investor, Advisor and Board Member across a variety of companies and funds. Skydio, Forter, Security Scorecard, Socure, Bend.io (Acquired, HSA Bank), Lynx, Wisely (Acquired by Olo), Freshbooks, Omaha Insurance, HyperSpec, Gryps, Cake, BloomCredit, Squark.ai, Frndly TV, HipDot (Acquired by Funko), Weevo, Folio Health, WhyHotel, dScout, Voicify, Pet Pocketbook, Button, mParticle, TVision, LovePop, SunBasket, Patriot Urgent Care, Drizly (Acquired, Uber), Clypd, (Acquired, AT&T), PubOcean (Acquired, Perion), NovoCure Pharma (Exit, IPO), PillPack (Acquired, Amazon), Crashlytics (Acquired, Twitter), RentJuice (Acquired, Zillow), Quattro Wireless (Acquired, Apple) Menlo Ventures, Asymetric Ventures, TBD, HomeTap Fund, DataPoint Capital, Commerce Ventures, LDV Ventures, Silversmith Capital Partners, Oceans Ventures, Cove Hill Partners, Highland Capital Leaders Fund, Castle Island VC.
2019 - 2022
Senior Advisor - Data & Services
2022 - 2022
Executive Vice President Data & Services, Global Merchant Loyalty (CEO, SessionM)
2019 - 2022
Powering world-class solutions for customer engagement and loyalty.
2011 - 2019
Co-Founder & CEO (Acquired by Mastercard 2019)
2011 - 2019
SessionM powers customer engagement for the world's best brands globally driving increased customer retention, more transaction volume and greater brand loyalty. Backed by General Atlantic, Salesforce, KPCB, Highland, CRV and Causeway.
2011 - 2015
Co-Founder & CEO
2011 - 2015
World's largest customer engagement and loyalty coalition across more than 2,000 mobile applications reaching more than 30MM consumers.
2010 - 2011
iAd Leadership, Publisher Partnerships & Alliances
2010 - 2011
2006 - 2010
Co-Founder & SVP, Business Development (Acquired by Apple in 2010)
2006 - 2010
2005 - 2006
VP, Media Account Management & Business Development (Acquired by VeriSign in 2006)
2005 - 2006
2005 - 2005
Strategic Planning
2005 - 2005
1999 - 2003
Co-founder
1999 - 2003