It has been almost a year since the initial launch of Version One Ventures and…
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While crunching the data and reflecting on the past year, it’s clear that 2012 was busy. Version One Ventures made eleven investments, including three angel investments that rolled over into the fund. Here are some of the more interesting details to share about our activity in 2012: Version One invested more than $2.5M in 2012 […]
It has been almost a year since the initial launch of Version One Ventures and…
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While crunching the data and reflecting on the past year, it’s clear that 2012 was busy. Version One Ventures made eleven investments, including three angel investments that rolled over into the fund.
Here are some of the more interesting details to share about our activity in 2012:
Announcing Version One’s final close
In addition to wrapping up 2012, I’m happy to announce the final close of the Version One Ventures fund with $19 million in committed capital. Our original target was $10M, so I’m extremely grateful at the confidence our investors placed in the fund. In addition, I’m particularly excited that this final close includes an institutional investor, the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) – their announcement can be found here.
Moving forward, we’re continuing our focus on e-commerce, SaaS, and marketplace opportunities in the Seed or Series A stages. It is still early times for the web and we’re excited to work with great entrepreneurs looking to change their industry or the world.
Crypto / Blockchain, Portfolio, Version One
We’re excited to announce our investment in Loon, a Canadian company building the country’s first regulated digital dollar. Version One led Loon’s $3M pre-seed round, alongside Garage Capital and a group of strategic Canadian angel investors. Loon is on a mission to create trusted, transparent payment infrastructure for Canada’s digital economy — starting with CADC, […]
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