Introducing the Second Edition of “The Guide to Marketplaces”
Note: We’ve updated this handbook — read the latest and greatest 3rd edition here! About two years ago, we put together The Guide to Marketplaces. It compiled many of the insights we’ve learned from working with great marketplace companies and analyzing the industry. One third of Version One portfolio companies are marketplace companies, and with […]
Helping our founders by supporting the whole team
When we developed our core beliefs, we spent considerable time thinking about our investment philosophy, as well as how we should work with our portfolio companies and what kind of resource we want to be. Specifically, we included two points involving our role: 5) We can make the greatest impact as a Seed investor. The seed […]
4th Quarter 2017 Update: Portfolio News and Activities
Happy new year!! We’re more than a week into 2018 and while this is typically a time to look ahead, we wanted to take a few minutes to highlight all the news from Q4 2017. We’ve said it before, but the Version One portfolio is filled with great startups doing incredible things. And as we […]
2017 Year in Review
This has been a critical year for us at Version One, as well as our ecosystem in general. The market frenzy surrounding crypto and blockchain challenges how VCs will evolve over the next years. In fact, the amount of money raised by startups via ICOs has surpassed early stage VC funding for internet companies. There is no […]
Our Approach to Investing in Genomics and Biosciences
It’s hard to believe that it has been a year and a half since we updated our healthcare thesis, as a follow-up to our blog series with Union Square Ventures on the future of healthcare. While we are still spending time on digital health, we have been focusing more on genomics and biosciences as a means to […]