Announcing Fund V and Opportunities Fund III
Today, we’re excited to share that we’ve closed two new funds: Version One Fund V ($78M USD) and Opportunities Fund III ($30M USD). While each new fund marks a new chapter for our firm, the core of Version One remains unchanged. We continue to believe that the biggest venture outcomes come from backing exceptional founders […]
Announcing Our Investment in Swoop
We’re excited to share that Swoop has raised $7.3M, with participation from Version One alongside our friends at Long Journey, Variant, Soma Capital and Dune. This also marks Version One’s first investment in Africa – a market has the potential to produce the next generation of global platform companies. Swoop is building a super-app for […]
Five Posts That Define How We Think
Over the past 13+ years, we’ve written a lot on this blog — investment announcements, portfolio recaps, year-in-reviews. But a handful of posts have captured something deeper: the ideas and convictions that actually guide how we invest. If you’re a founder trying to understand what makes us tick, or just curious about how our thinking […]
Announcing our investment in Pluto, solving last-mile delivery at the vehicle level
Last-mile delivery is one of those markets that looks simple at first glance—until you dig in and realize how much of it is held together by workarounds. As quick commerce scales across India, delivery volumes are exploding. Companies want to deliver more. But the vehicles powering those deliveries haven’t really kept up. Most are still […]
Announcing Our Investment in Arctus Aerospace: Building High-Altitude Autonomy
We’re excited to share that Arctus Aerospace has raised a $2.6M pre-seed round, led by Version One Ventures alongside South Park Commons, gradCapital, and a group of angels including Balaji Srinivasan and Srinivas Narayan of OpenAI. Arctus is building something rare: a fundamentally new category of high-altitude, long-endurance autonomous aircraft for real-time Earth observation. Their […]