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Nick Landolfi

Investing Team at Unusual Ventures

Stanford, California

Overview 

Nick Landolfi is a CS PhD candidate at Stanford University with a background in research and teaching at top academic institutions. He currently serves as part of the investing team at Unusual Ventures, specializing in funding startups in sectors such as Enterprise Infrastructure, AI, and Cybersecurity in the San Francisco Bay Area. Highlights of Nick's career include his multiple roles at Stanford University, including Ph.D. candidate and teaching assistant, as well as his experience as a research advisor at clearspace.

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.

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