Expanding our bio/healthcare thesis
Our first investment in healthcare was five years ago in Figure 1, a platform for viewing and discussing real-world medical cases with healthcare professionals. This investment shaped our original thesis in the category. Figure 1 plays outside the healthcare care system; it’s permissionless innovation, like Yammer or Slack in the enterprise. As we wrote in our Digital […]
Growing our team: V1 is hiring an associate
VC is an apprenticeship industry. When I joined Version One five years ago, I would have never guessed that I would be where I am today. So much of who I am today has to do with the fact that Boris spent a ton of time teaching and mentoring me, despite our different locations. From […]
On top of the CN Tower: Understanding how we process fear
Last week, Boris and I were in Toronto for our quarterly offsite. I suggested the CN Tower EdgeWalk as a good break from discussing all things Version One related. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the EdgeWalk, it is an attraction where participants in suits and harnesses circle the exposed top of the […]
Where are the opportunities for the next venture-scale marketplace business?
Here’s a question that we have been getting a lot lately: Do you still invest in marketplaces? The answer is YES! We love their network effects and continue to invest in them. In a tweetstorm last week, our friend Andrew Chen listed the 20 best links he’s seen on marketplaces and included us on the […]
Version One has a new look! Announcing our updated website
We’re excited to announce that our new and refreshed website is live! This update was designed to make the experience of our site better with a stronger sense of who we are, what we do, and why we do it. In addition, we aimed to re-surface evergreen content so we spent some extra time revamping […]