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Tyler Crown

Vice President at Unusual Ventures

New York, New York

Overview 

Tyler Crown is an Investor at Unusual Ventures, specializing in Enterprise AI, SaaS, and B2B Fintech. With a background in management consulting and venture capital, he brings expertise in financial analysis, valuation, and entrepreneurship to his role, having previously worked at reputable firms like Sapphire Ventures and Deloitte. Tyler's career highlights include his current position as Vice President at Unusual Ventures, where he focuses on investing in early-stage companies in sectors such as FinTech and Enterprise Applications. His educational background includes an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business and experience working with notable firms like Northzone and Assurant Ventures.

Work Experience 

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Unusual Ventures

  • Vice President

    2022 - Current

    Enterprise AI, B2B Vertical and Horizontal SaaS, and B2B Fintech investor Investments and board positions include Navro, Hallow, GovSignals, Portrait Analytics, Theia Insights, Bits, EnFi, CO2 AI, and several Stealth AI Companies

Unusual Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital offering hands-on support and expertise to startups on their early-stage journey.

unusual.vc
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Papaya

  • Strategy and Operations

    2021 - 2021

    • Defined 5 key user profiles from segmentation analysis of 300K+ users; recommended upsell strategy to lower CAC • Conducted 30+ customer interviews – identified opportunity to better nurture customer relationships post sign-up • Identified $2.2m payment acceleration opportunity with top 10 payees in preventative healthcare by analyzing payee data

Papaya is a developer of an online mobile application and payments technology designed to simplify bill payment for consumers.

Raised $65,100,000.00 from Fika Ventures, Sequoia Capital, 9Yards Capital, F-Prime Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Sound Ventures, 01 Advisors, Mucker Capital and Acrew Capital.

papayapay.com
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Assurant Ventures

  • Associate

    2018 - 2020

    • Served as strategic partner to Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) and 3 business unit leaders, recommending new product launches and experiences, identifying areas of opportunity to partner with startups, and executing strategic internal and external initiatives to drive incremental business performance • Partnered with Connected Living leadership team to determine cost savings via new automation tool in customer service processes, resulting in 17% reduction in call center expense; built KPI monitoring tool for launch and scaling • Evaluated ROI/KPIs on 9 commercial partnerships between Assurant and startups for COO and business unit leads • Built financial models, assessed KPIs, evaluated unit economics, coordinated due diligence efforts, wrote investment memos, and presented to our Investment Committee for 12 investment opportunities (4 had exits >$1B) • Developed quarterly reporting on financial performance of 12 startups for the CSO (my skip level) for earnings calls • Conducted diligence by introing prospective investments to Assurant customers (Apple, T-Mobile, Comcast, Amazon) • Launched 2 new product lines – Launched new product offerings alongside Assurant’s mortgage and banking partners via Doma (AI-powered fintech platform) and Sure (white-labeled infrastructure platform) • Signed partnerships and invested in 8 startups (total investment: >$75M) to expand Assurant’s product reach in emerging markets and new customer sets, including PayJoy (Connected Living), SmartRent (Connected Home) Transaction Experience: - SmartRent, PayJoy, Vacasa, Doma, Sure, Cazoo, Maxwell, Mynd, PrecisionLender, TrueAccord

  • Senior Analyst

    2017 - 2018

Assurant Ventures focused on making equity investments in venture and growth stage technology companies.

assurant.com
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Assurant

  • Business Strategy & Operations, Manager

    2018 - 2020

  • Business Strategy & Operations, Senior Analyst

    2017 - 2018

Assurant provides protection products and related services to safeguard companies against risks.

Raised $173,100,000.00.

assurant.com
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Deloitte

  • Strategy & Operations - Consultant

    2016 - 2016

    • Completed operational/commercial due diligence and pro forma financial analysis for several tech and PE acquisitions • Led post-merger integration and Day 1 planning for recent acquisition by Fortune 500 financial services company • Performed process optimization analysis and built Tableau dashboard to review SKU performance for CPG company • Developed business case for operating model transformation for global industrials company to streamline operations

  • Strategy & Operations - Analyst

    2014 - 2016

Deloitte Tax is an advisory firm that provides tax preparation and advisory services.

www2.deloitte.com

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