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Lars Albright

General Partner at Unusual Ventures

Boston, Massachusetts

Overview

Work Experience

UV

Unusual Ventures

  • General Partner

    2022 - Current

    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.

Skydio, Drizly, Clypd, Forter, PillPack, mParticle, Security Scorecard, Freshbooks etc.

  • 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.

M

Mastercard

  • 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.

SessionM

  • 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.

SessionM -mPlus Rewards

  • 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.

AI

Apple Inc.

  • iAd Leadership, Publisher Partnerships & Alliances

    2010 - 2011

Quattro Wireless

  • Co-Founder & SVP, Business Development (Acquired by Apple in 2010)

    2006 - 2010

m-Qube/VeriSign

  • VP, Media Account Management & Business Development (Acquired by VeriSign in 2006)

    2005 - 2006

LTX Semiconductor

  • Strategic Planning

    2005 - 2005

Eyetide Media

  • Co-founder

    1999 - 2003

Education

Investments

Theia Insights

Seed

Total Funding: $7M

Navro

Series A

Total Funding: $38M

Paxton AI

Seed

Total Funding: $6M

Portrait Analytics

Seed

Total Funding: $10M

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