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# Senior Portfolio Analytics & Investment Associate at Unusual Ventures

- **Company:** Unusual Ventures
- **Location:** Menlo Park, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-09-29
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-28
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/unusual/82802c76-2900-4983-b1cf-14ffcdb87316

## Job description

## About the Role

We are seeking an analytically rigorous, commercially sharp Senior Portfolio Analytics & Investment Associate to bridge the gap between structured financial modeling and early-stage startup execution. Positioned within our investment team, this role splits time between delivering strategic insights on portfolio traction, helping with underwriting investments, and serving as a direct fractional financial strategist to our founders. Unlike traditional back-office data roles, responsibility for institutional fund metrics, DPI/IRR tracking, and Limited Partner (LP) reporting lies entirely with our dedicated Finance team. Instead, you will deliver value by honing internal data infrastructure and advanced analytical modeling to drive proactive investment decision making, assist with pre-investment diligence, and help architect financial strategy alongside our pre-seed and seed-stage portfolio companies from day one. Core Responsibilities

Portfolio Intelligence & Operational Infrastructure (50%)

- Portfolio Modeling: Build and maintain operating models for priority portfolio companies, tracking actuals vs. plan, burn, runway, and progress toward Series A/B milestones and beyond.

- Predictive Dashboarding: Engineer internal analytics frameworks and predictive watchlists to monitor portfolio health, alert leadership to real-time runway risks, and evaluate operational velocity.  Primary focus is on companies likely to deliver the greatest impact to our funds and put this analysis in front of leadership.

- Internal Synergy: Interface directly with the internal Finance team to provide seamless portfolio data information, feeding into valuations for fund accounting and investor reporting.

- Assist and support investor relations with slide and deck creation in advance of meetings with Limited Partners.

Investment Evaluation & Due Diligence (25%)

- Deep-Dive Due Diligence: Support the commercial evaluation of early-stage investment opportunities, identifying core traction drivers, reviewing financial models and pressure testing assumptions as appropriate.

- Investment Committee Memos: Collaborate on drafting high-conviction investment memos and present clear data-driven arguments directly to the Investment Committee.

- Market Mapping: Map markets and competitive landscapes across our focus areas (AI infrastructure, developer tools, security, data infrastructure) to support proactive sourcing.

- Underwriting & Valuation: Work with other investment team members on complex financial underwriting, cap table dilution analysis, and returns modeling for pipeline opportunities. Support Finance team with valuation modeling as needed.

Founder Advisory & Early-Stage Financial Architecture (25%)

- Bespoke Financial Modeling: Embed directly with pre-seed and seed-stage portfolio founders to design, build, and stress-test their initial bottoms-up operational and financial models from scratch.

- Strategic Advisory: Translate raw early traction into structured corporate forecasts—optimizing pricing tiers, unit economics, headcount planning, and milestones required to successfully unlock Series A benchmarks.

- Capital Raising Support: Partner with portfolio executive teams to build clean, forward-looking runway/burn scenarios ahead of institutional follow-on rounds.

- Playbook Development: Institutionalize financial templates across the firm, building robust, repeatable forecasting tooling and playbooks tailored for early-stage B2B SaaS focused in the AI infrastructure segment.

Required Background & Qualifications

- Experience: 3–5+ years of experience in either Venture Capital, Private Equity, Growth Equity, or Investment Banking.

- Financial Modeling Mastery: Elite-level ability to synthesize complex operational metrics into transparent, flexible three-statement models from a blank sheet of paper.

- Early-Stage Intuition: Deep operational empathy for pre-seed and seed founders; a natural ability to educate technical operators on financial literacy and unit economics.

- Technical Toolkit: Advanced mastery of Excel/Sheets. Highly value technical familiarity with data management frameworks with MCP integrations (Claude, ChatGPT, Carta), BI visualization software, and standard market information sources (PitchBook, Harmonic, Crunchbase).

- Education: Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering, or a highly technical quantitative discipline.  MBA/ CFA a plus.

## About Unusual Ventures

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: A venture capital firm that provides hands-on operational support and a dedicated engagement model to help technical founders of enterprise AI software startups achieve product-market fit.
- **Entity Type**: Private (venture capital fund)
- **Headquarters**: Menlo Park, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: Jyoti Bansal and John Vrionis

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Venture Capital / Financial Services, with a focus on seed-stage enterprise AI software startups.
- **Target customers**: Technical founders of early-stage startups (B2B through founders).
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Raise the bar for what founders should expect from their venture investors” and give technical founders the best odds of finding product-market fit.

## Products & Services
- **Unusual Venture Capital**: Seed-stage investment in enterprise AI software startups.
- **Unusual Founder Services**: A team of full-time operators embedded with portfolio companies to execute customer discovery, go-to-market strategy, and product-market fit work.
- **Unusual Academy**: An immersive program where founders work side by side with Unusual’s founders and expert operators.
- **Community & Events**: Quarterly founders events, founder academy, monthly intimate dinners with customer prospects, and go-to-market tools.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not applicable (private fund; not publicly disclosed).
- **Key Metric**: 20 employees (as of latest data); 51,647 LinkedIn followers (+16.5% yearly); 10 active job postings (+100% yearly).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: LPs are primarily non-profits (hospitals, foundations, HBCUs). Portfolio companies include Rime (powers nearly 100 million phone calls/month for clients like Mayo Clinic, Dialpad, Upstart, and Asurion). Co-founder Jyoti Bansal is one of only 16 people to build two companies surpassing $100M in revenue (AppDynamics and Harness).
- **Growth Signals**: Portfolio companies raise follow-on rounds at valuations “significantly above industry averages.” The firm has seen a 100% increase in job postings year-over-year.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Full-time operator model**: Unlike traditional VCs, Unusual embeds dedicated operators who do the work alongside founders, not just advise.
- **Concentrated portfolio**: Makes a small number of investments each year, giving each founder full attention.
- **Proven founders**: Jyoti Bansal (AppDynamics, Harness) and John Vrionis (30+ billion-dollar outcomes) bring deep first-hand experience.
- **The Unusual Method**: A purpose-built framework for product-market fit, refined through thousands of customer conversations.
- **LP alignment**: LPs are primarily non-profits, creating a “forces for good” ethos.

## Strategic Focus
- Continue investing in seed-stage enterprise AI software startups.
- Expand the Unusual Method and Founder Services to increase portfolio success rates.
- Build a close-knit, supportive founder community to drive repeatable PMF.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Forces for good” – employees work with a mission-driven team committed to founders through the hard phases. 5.0/5.0 employer rating (1 review) with high marks for work-life balance, compensation, and career growth.
- **Work environment**: Small team (20 people) with high impact. Offices in Menlo Park (HQ) and San Francisco; team also distributed across the US and Australia. Remote/hybrid policy not explicitly stated, but the presence of multiple offices suggests flexibility.
- **Notable perks**: Opportunity to work alongside top technical founders and industry veterans; direct involvement in the product-market fit process; exposure to a concentrated portfolio of cutting-edge AI startups.
- **Career path**: Roles across venture operations, sales, finance, and programs. The firm actively hires for roles that support portfolio companies (e.g., Founding Account Executive, VP of Engineering, Software Engineer) as well as internal functions (e.g., Director of Programs, VP of Sales).

## Sources
1. [unusual.vc](https://www.unusual.vc/our-story/)
2. [unusual.vc](https://www.unusual.vc/team/)
3. [unusual.vc](https://www.unusual.vc/founder-services/)
4. [jobs.lever.co/unusual](https://jobs.lever.co/unusual)
5. [linkedin.com/company/unusualventures](https://linkedin.com/company/unusualventures)

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