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The product-market fit partner for technical enterprise founders.

Menlo Park, CA unusual.vc Joined April 2018

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Unusual Ventures @Unusual_VC 6d

Congratulations to @fal on their $1.3B Series F at a $16B valuation!

fal powers image, video and audio generation for developers and enterprises. This funding will expand its inference capacity and support new research as demand for generative media grows.

An incredible milestone for @burkaygur, @gorkem and the entire fal team! We’re proud to be part of your journey!

Unusual Ventures @Unusual_VC Nov 2

From SaaS to AI, our co-founder @jyotibansalsf shared lessons on building and scaling companies at our Tech Week Fireside Chat & Fleet Week Watch Party.

Thanks to @FirstCitznInnov Banking for co-hosting and everyone who joined us!

Unusual Ventures @Unusual_VC Oct 28

Unusual portfolio company @rimelabs, led by Stanford-trained linguist @lilyjclifford, builds the speech models behind nearly 100 million enterprise phone calls a month. Today, they’re launching the first speech-to-speech model you can't tell from a human in conversation. Meet Prism below.

lily clifford Verified account @lilyjclifford Oct 28

introducing prism, the world’s first speech-to-speech model you can’t tell from a human in conversation

prism has:
> 300ms response time, 4x faster than OpenAI GPT-Live
> outperforms every other s2s model on intelligence (with NO reasoning)
> the first s2s model customizable through reinforcement learning

we’re a team of 35 with $35M in funding, and we’re unlocking s2s model adoption faster than openai, google, and x.

the first 100 people to sign up here get 1 month free: rime.ai/prism?utm_camp…

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Unusual Ventures @Unusual_VC Oct 26

Last week, we welcomed @NotreDame students to our Unusual Ventures office for a conversation with John Vrionis on careers in tech, entrepreneurship, and the future of AI.

Thank you to all who joined us!

Unusual Ventures @Unusual_VC Oct 23

This week, Unusual portfolio company @dreamlabs_ai launched Dream-1 and announced $90M in seed funding.

Founded by former @nvidia robotics researchers, the team is building a shared AI brain that learns from human videos to help robots perform tasks across different hardware. Read more👇