John Vrionis

Founder and Managing Partner

2018 - Current

Unusual Ventures invests in pre-seed, seed and Series A stage enterprise software companies. Our mission is to redefine early stage investing and raise the bar for what entrepreneurs should expect from investment partners during the formation years. Seed/Early Investor in 16 billion dollar+ exits and financings including: Arctic Wolf Networks, Affirmed Networks (acquired by MSFT), AppDynamics (acquired by Cisco), Cockroach Labs, Heptio (acquired by VMware), Gusto, Liftoff.IO, Mulesoft (MULE acquired by Salesforce), Nicira (acquired by VMware), Nimble Storage (NMBL acquired by HP), Pinterest (PINS), Pliant (acquired by SanDisk), Sourcegraph and Tabular (acquired by Databricks). Current investments include Arctic Wolf Networks, Carta, CO2 AI, Harness, Hallow, Qdrant, Relyance.ai, Traceable, Vivun, and others.

General Partner

2006 - 2017

Early Investor in Affirmed Networks (acquired by MSFT), AppDynamics (acquired by Cisco), Heptio (acquired by VMware), Mulesoft (MULE acquired by Salesforce), Nicira (acquired by VMware), Nimble Storage (NMBL acquired by HP), Pliant (acquired by SanDisk), Sourcegraph and Arctic Wolf Networks.

Product Management

2004 - 2005

Product management team working on host based intrusion prevention product.

Director of Product Management

2003 - 2005

• Joined as 5th employee. Assisted with product buildout and creating the go to market playbook. • Created affiliate strategy. Built and managed team with 150 representatives, structured compensation schedules for internal and external sales channels, and created joint product marketing materials.

Sr. Associate

2000 - 2003

While completing Masters in Computer Science I worked with ABN AMRO Ventures to invest in early and growth stage IT companies

Soccer

1997 - 1999