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Tyler Crown

Vice President at Unusual Ventures

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Tyler Crown is an Investor at Unusual Ventures, specializing in Enterprise AI, SaaS, and B2B Fintech. With a background in management consulting and venture capital, he brings expertise in financial analysis, valuation, and entrepreneurship to his role, having previously worked at reputable firms like Sapphire Ventures and Deloitte. Tyler's career highlights include his current position as Vice President at Unusual Ventures, where he focuses on investing in early-stage companies in sectors such as FinTech and Enterprise Applications. His educational background includes an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business and experience working with notable firms like Northzone and Assurant Ventures.

Work Experience 

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Unusual Ventures

  • Vice President

    2022 - Current

    Investing in early stage enterprise AI, vertical SaaS, and B2B fintech software startups. Investments and board positions include: Navro (Series A - sourced), Portrait Analytics (Seed - sourced), Theia Insights (Seed - sourced), EnFi (Seed), Hallow (Series C), CO2 AI (Seed), Paxton AI (Seed - sourced), Bits Technology (Seed - sourced), and several Stealth AI Companies

Unusual Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital offering hands-on support and expertise to startups on their early-stage journey.

unusual.vc
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Papaya

  • Product Strategy and Business Operations

    2021 - 2022

    • Built user segmentation model for 300K+ users; recommended upsell strategy for existing users leading to lower CAC • Analyzed B2B payment competitors; derived product roadmap from customer interviews and signed partnerships • Performed cohort analysis to optimize partner retention; created business case for billing capabilities product suite

Papaya is a developer of an online mobile application and payments technology designed to simplify bill payment for consumers.

Raised $65,100,000.00 from Fika Ventures, Sequoia Capital, 9Yards Capital, F-Prime Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Sound Ventures, 01 Advisors, Mucker Capital and Acrew Capital.

papayapay.com
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Northzone

  • MBA Investor

    2021 - 2022

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Sapphire Ventures

  • MBA Growth Investor

    2020 - 2021

    Investing in Enterprise B2B SaaS and Fintech from Series B to Pre-IPO across North America, Europe, and Israel

Sapphire is a global software venture capital firm backing companies of consequence.

sapphireventures.com
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Assurant Ventures

  • Senior Associate

    2018 - 2020

    • Coordinated 9 commercial agreements between Assurant and portfolio companies; developed growth strategies/KPIs • Direct-sourced 8 investments at the Series A/B stage across the vertical SaaS, fintech, IoT, and proptech sectors • Conducted diligence by introducing prospective investments to new customers; built thematic market screens • Developed financial models, assessed KPIs, evaluated unit economics, coordinated due diligence efforts, wrote investment memos, and presented to our Investment Committee for 12 investment opportunities (4 had exits >$1B) • Led internal reporting for 19 active portfolio companies; prepared quarterly LP updates on startup/fund performance Transaction Experience: - Cazoo - Digital online car buying platform (Direct sourced opportunity and first institutional capital invested) - Maxwell - Cloud-based digital platform for mortgage lenders - Mynd - Tech-enabled property management company (Direct sourced opportunity) - PayJoy - Consumer financing platform for smartphones (Direct sourced opportunity) - PrecisionLender - Commercial banking platform that provides instantaneous insights for relationship building (acquired by Q2 Software for >$500M) - SmartRent - Connected home platform for multifamily properties (IPO >$2B) - Doma (States Title) - AI platform that underwrites title insurance policies instantaneously (IPO >$3B) - Sure - Infrastructure platform for insurance (Series A investment) - TrueAccord - Machine learning debt collection platform - Vacasa - Vacation rental management services platform (IPO >$4B)

  • Senior Analyst

    2017 - 2018

Assurant Ventures focused on making equity investments in venture and growth stage technology companies.

assurant.com
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Deloitte

  • Strategy & Operations - Consultant

    2016 - 2016

    • Completed operational/commercial due diligence and pro forma financial analysis for several tech and PE acquisitions • Led post-merger integration and Day 1 planning for recent acquisition by Fortune 500 financial services company • Performed process optimization analysis and built Tableau dashboard to review SKU performance for CPG company • Developed business case for operating model transformation for global industrials company to streamline operations

  • Strategy & Operations - Analyst

    2014 - 2016

Deloitte Tax is an advisory firm that provides tax preparation and advisory services.

www2.deloitte.com

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