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Excited to share that Miravoice has raised a $6.3M seed round — and we’re proud to partner with Nishant Jain, Danny D. Leybzon, Shreyas Tirumala, along with the whole Miravoice team. From the beginning, what drew Unusual Ventures to Miravoice was how clearly they saw a problem most organizations have simply learned to live with: collecting structured data through voice conversations is still manual, expensive, and slow. Despite all the progress in AI, large-scale phone surveys and interviews are still largely powered by call centers. Earlier voice AI solutions struggled with reliability and accuracy, making them difficult to trust for high-stakes data collection. Miravoice takes a fundamentally different approach. Read our full post below: https://lnkd.in/e8yJEeDS

Last night Unusual Ventures hosted a dinner in SF on deploying voice AI at scale. The room: product leaders like Raghav Gupta from Uber, Rohan Mehta from Capital One, Dan Setterby from Verizon, Josh Burnell from Asurion, and Alex Acero (who literally built Siri) from Zoom. A real conversation about what it actually takes to ship voice at enterprise scale. The takeaways: - The quality bar has moved. "Good enough" TTS isn't good enough anymore when your voice is the first thing 30 million customers hear. - LLMs are better at evaluating call success than CSAT scores. - Conversations that are happening digitally in chat today are increasingly (and rapidly) being pushed to the voice channel. Grateful to Niamh O'Donnell, Nick Landolfi, John Vrionis and the Unusual Ventures team for putting this together. More to come!

We’re excited to share that Theia Insights has raised an $8M Series A led by MiddleGame Ventures, with participation from Further Ventures and ourselves, bringing total funding to date to $14.5M. We backed Theia early because we believe that, as AI reshapes how financial institutions research, construct portfolios, and allocate capital, those systems are only as good as the economic map they reason from. But, the maps the industry relies on today are fundamentally broken. Read more in our blog post here: https://lnkd.in/gKrifZ2Y

Congratulations to Ye Tian and the entire Theia Insights team on the new round of capital. Excited for the growth ahead!

A lot of exciting opportunities with Unusual Ventures portfolio companies. Here are a few of the exciting jobs open across our portfolio right now: EnFi, Inc - Account Executive Miravoice -Founding Software Engineer Chalk - VP of Sales Qdrant - Developer Relations Engineer Orum 🥇- VP of Marketing

Databricks is acquiring Quotient AI to strengthen the agent evaluation and reinforcement learning capabilities in Genie, Genie Code, and Agent Bricks so customers get more reliable AI agents in production. Databricks already provides powerful tools for evaluating and improving AI agents. With Quotient, we're strengthening these capabilities across our platform with a continuous evaluation and improvement layer that monitors agent behavior in production, catches issues like hallucinations and broken reasoning before users do, and uses those signals to continuously improve performance over time. We're excited to welcome the Quotient AI team to Databricks as we continue building the most reliable platform for developing, deploying, and improving agentic systems at scale! https://lnkd.in/eNAV64TY

Today, Qdrant announced a $50M Series B led by AVP, with Bosch Ventures, Spark Capital, 42CAP and us at Unusual Ventures. We’re thrilled to continue backing Andre Zayarni and his team as they build critical infrastructure for production AI. Last year, we hosted a dinner with 12 of Silicon Valley’s top AI leaders on The Role of Memory and Retrieval in Agentic AI. Their deep engagement with Qdrant’s approach made it clear how vital this layer of the AI stack is, so this exciting milestone comes as no surprise 🚀

Our 2025 Fall Unusual Academy's cohort was one of our strongest yet! Thank you to all the founders who showed up with curiosity, energy and a true builder’s mindset. Unusual Ventures