Nick Landolfi
Investing Team at Unusual Ventures
Stanford, California
Overview
Work Experience
Investing Team
2024 - Current
Unusual Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital offering hands-on support and expertise to startups on their early-stage journey.
Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science
2018
Stanford Graduate Fellowship (2021); National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship (2018).
Teaching Assistant
2023 - 2023
Assistant for Stanford's introduction to probabilistic machine learning, CS 228.
Teaching Fellow
2022 - 2022
Instructor for Stanford's introduction to applied linear algebra and optimization, EE 263.
Research Consultant
2022 - 2022
Conducted research on early cancer detection using protein language models.
Research Advisor
2021 - 2022
Conducted research on AI interventions to prevent compulsive smartphone use.
clearspace is an app that eliminates compulsive phone use by intercepting impulsive app opens and cutting doom scrolling sessions short.
Raised $500,000.00 from Y Combinator.
Teaching Assistant
2018 - 2018
Assistant for Berkeley's introduction to artificial intelligence, CS188.
Research Assistant
2016 - 2018
Assistant in Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) lab. Advised by Prof. Anca Dragan.
Software Engineer Intern
2017 - 2017
Co-deployed and operated a Kubernetes cluster in support of testing infrastructure for the open-source Istio service mesh project.
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.
Software Engineer Intern
2016 - 2016
Co-architected and deployed a Google Ads internal service which processed billions of events each day.
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.