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Pioneer Square Labs is invigorating Seattle’s startup ecosystem

sudshr47 March 6, 2019 Startups

How the startup studio’s “validation engine” has made it one of the best company builders in the business.

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Pitching a $99 tax advisory service for the masses, Visor has raised $9 million

sudshr47 November 16, 2018

The only sure things in this life, according to Ben Franklin, are death and taxes. And a new startup called Visor has just raised $9 million in financing to make one of them as painless as possible. Unlike Nectome, Visor won’t kill anyone, but it may ring the death knell for the high end tax advisors that most […]

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Silicon Valley’s sovereign wealth problem

sudshr47 October 29, 2018

John Vrionis Contributor Share on Twitter John Vrionis is the founder of Unusual Ventures. It’s time to bring the conversation about where Silicon Valley gets its money from out into the open. Following recent revelations into Saudi Arabia’s extensive reach and influence in the US technology sector, the willful ignorance that has defined the relationship […]

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Shujinko brings in $2.8M for its cloud security compliance platform

sudshr47 October 10, 2018

Shujinko is emerging from stealth today with $2.8 million in seed funding from Unusual Ventures, Defy, Vulcan Capital, PSL Ventures and Vas Ventures.

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Catching up with startup advisor (and Wealthfront CEO) Andy Rachcleff

sudshr47 August 15, 2018

Andy Rachleff, who co-founded the venture firm Benchmark back in 1995 and has more recently been leading the wealth management firm Wealthfront and teaching at Stanford, is widely sought for his startup advice. It has become harder to come by, though, given the demands on Rachleff’s time. Most notably, Rachleff has had to dial back his […]

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AppDynamics founder launches Unusual Ventures, a new $160M seed-stage fund

sudshr47 May 15, 2018

Jyoti Bansal, the founder of AppDynamics, which he sold for $3.7 billion just as it was about to go public, and John Vrionis, a former venture partner at Lightspeed, where he invested in companies like MuleSoft, Nimble Storage and Bansal’s AppDynamics, today announced the launch of Unusual Ventures, a new $160 million seed fund. Vrionis will […]