What does Unpopular Ventures invest in?
Unpopular Ventures invests most often at Seed and Venture (64% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as AI & Machine Learning, Advertising (AdTech) and AgTech (FarmTech).

United States · Investor
Last cheque observed Sep 2026; 264 cheques on record.
Deploying nowNew fund $270K, Oct 2026VC firm
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21 cheques in the last 12 months
Mostly Seed and Venture: 64% of its rounds
Sole investor in 15 rounds, median $2.8M
We invest in the best companies, off the beaten path.From their own website
Every round we can evidence, newest first264 appearances
18 rounds
63 rounds
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The investors most often in the same rounds as Unpopular Ventures. A count of rooms they were both in, not a relationship either has claimed.
The latest companies Unpopular Ventures put money into.
2 episodes naming Unpopular Ventures in the title.

VC10X - "LPs don't really want the best returns" - Peter Livingston, Founder & GP, Unpopular Ventures
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VC10X - Investing in 'Unpopular' Startups w/ Peter Livingston, GP, Unpopular Ventures
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Unpopular Ventures invests most often at Seed and Venture (64% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as AI & Machine Learning, Advertising (AdTech) and AgTech (FarmTech).
264 investments on record, 21 of them in the last 12 months. The most recent was in Sept 2026.
Its most recent investments on record: Palitronica Inc. (Series A, Sept 2026), VideoGen (Seed, Sept 2026) and Clarion (Seed, Sept 2026).
The median round it joins is $3.0M. It says it writes cheques of $100K to $500K.
Rarely, if at all: none of its 264 investments on record names it as the lead.
Most of the companies it backs are in the United States (72%) and Denmark (6%).
Yes: it is actively investing, with 21 investments in the last 12 months.
Most often Y Combinator (125 rounds together), Pioneer Fund (25 rounds together) and Soma Capital (15 rounds together).
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