Unorthodox Ventures is seeking talented people and small businesses interested in growth. The company is the latest business from contrarian entrepreneur Carey Smith, the founder of fan and light maker Big Ass Fans.
Unorthodox Ventures partners with founders who demonstrate disruption and discipline. Dreamers who actually do something. Tinkerers who create solutions to real-world problems. Carey has created a company that upends the traditional venture capital model, which focuses only on providing money and has become increasingly parasitic. Unorthodox Ventures offers everything those investment firms lacked when they approached him near daily at Big Ass Fans over the course of two decades. Carey's team consists of experts who help founders become serial entrepreneurs by providing support for everything from engineering and marketing to customer service and logistics.
Location: United States, Texas, Austin
Employees: 11-50
Founded date: 2017
Investment Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Series A; Series E
Portfolio 22
| Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
| 02.03.2023 | SafKan Hea... | safkanheal... | $9M | United Sta... |
| 07.02.2023 | Third Pole... | pole3.com | $72M | United Sta... |
| 03.02.2023 | OtoSet® by... | otoset.com | - | United Sta... |
| 03.02.2023 | KEWAZO | kewazo.com | $15M | Germany, B... |
| 23.08.2022 | PeakData | peakdata.c... | $12.52M | Switzerlan... |
| 19.08.2022 | Zippsafe A... | zippsafe.c... | $3.08M | Switzerlan... |
| 20.06.2022 | Aquabrew | aqua-brew.... | - | United Sta... |
| 22.02.2022 | DiaMonTech... | diamontech... | $12.73M | Germany, B... |
| 10.12.2021 | ANINA Culi... | aninafoodt... | - | - |
| 21.09.2021 | Vaask | vaask.com | - | United Sta... |
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Persons 16
| Date | First Name | Last Name | Title | Location | |||
| - | Tristan | Smith | Project Ma... | linkedin.c... | - | t*****n@un... | - |
| - | Gavin | Holiday | Project Ma... | linkedin.c... | - | G***n@unor... | - |
| - | Corey | Downing | Marketing ... | linkedin.c... | - | c***y@unor... | - |
| - | David | Current | Procuremen... | linkedin.c... | - | d***d@unor... | - |
| - | Anderson | Smith | Principal | linkedin.c... | - | a******n@u... | - |
| - | Adam | Kahn | Principal | linkedin.c... | - | a**m@unort... | - |
| - | Brian | Smith | Principal | linkedin.c... | - | b***n@unor... | - |
| - | Lewis | Kilongo | - | linkedin.c... | - | l***s@unor... | - |
| - | Carey | Smith | Founding C... | linkedin.c... | - | c***y@unor... | - |
| - | Ángel | Guatemala | Creative a... | linkedin.c... | - | i**o@unort... | - |
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Mentions in press and media 10
| Date | Title | Description | Source |
| 20.12.2023 | Dutch-based Corporis Medical raises €4M to develop and comme... | Read this article in: Maastricht-based Corporis Medical, a startup that focuses on developing and c... | siliconcan... |
| 09.03.2023 | A Standout Occasion from EU-Startups: Summit 2023 in Barcelo... | EU-Startups Summit 2023 in Barcelona welcomes all founders, investors, and everybody related to the ... | itkey.medi... |
| 22.08.2022 | Zippsafe partners with Unorthodox Ventures for expansion int... | As Zippsafe prepares to enter the American market, the Swiss start-up attracted additional financing... | venturekic... |
| 19.08.2022 | Backed by Unorthodox Ventures Zippsafe tackles the US market | As Zippsafe prepares to enter the American market, the Swiss start-up attracted an additional fina... | startuptic... |
| 17.11.2021 | You don’t need as much money as VCs want you to think | Subscribe to Fortune Daily to get essential business stories straight to your inbox each morning. W... | fortune.co... |
| 01.04.2021 | Meet The Female Founder Who Just Raised $2.3 Million For Her... | Frances Tang, founder and CEO of Awkward EssentialsAWKWARD ESSENTIALS Like many founders, Frances T... | forbes.com... |
| 26.03.2021 | Constipation treatment Vibrant raises $7.5 million led by Un... | YOKNEAM ILLIT, Israel, March 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Vibrant, a leading developer of gastrointestin... | marketscre... |
| 09.10.2020 | EU-Startups Podcast / Episode 7: European Investors pitching... | For the 7th episode of the EU-Startups Podcast we invited European venture capital investors to come... | eu-startup... |
| 27.11.2019 | Austin’s Shotgun Seltzer Lands $1 Million Investment From Un... | Shotgun Seltzer, Austin’s first craft spiked seltzer, announced recently that it has received a $1 m... | siliconhil... |
| 12.09.2019 | Carey Smith Launches Unorthodox Ventures in Austin to Invest... | Carey Smith sold Big Ass Fans, the company he founded in Lexington, Kentucky, for $500 million in De... | siliconhil... |