Regulatory arbitrage in crypto

Almost six years ago Marc Andreessen spelled out the playbook for creating the next Silicon Valley: Don’t copy the Valley but “figure out what domain is (or could be) specific to a specific region—and then removing the regulatory hurdles for that particular domain”. Unfortunately for the Valley (and North America in general), a few regions […]

Announcing our investment in Halcyon Health

Last week, I outlined our current areas of interest in healthcare: patient networks, digital therapeutics, patient care management, new diagnostics, and disrupting health insurance.  At the same time, one of my closest friends, Josh Nussbaum, introduced his new company, Halcyon Health, to the world. I encourage everyone to read Josh’s own words about Halcyon and […]

Our areas of interest in healthcare

Over the past two weeks, Boris and Max have shared their investment themes and interests. Boris wrote about the latest opportunities in enterprise SaaS, while Max outlined some of his current investment themes, from the Open Internet to climate change. I’m going to continue the trend by highlighting some of the key areas in healthcare […]

Today’s opportunities in enterprise SaaS

Enterprise SaaS has seen tremendous growth over the past decade and created many, many large stand-alone companies. Given the current public struggle of tech-enabled services, marketplaces, hardware and DTC companies, enterprise SaaS also feels like VC’s most favourite investment category right now. The amount of money that has poured into this space has made enterprise […]

Max’s Investment Themes

In my first post, I shared a bit about my worldview and values. Today, I’d like to outline some of my investment themes. Note that my personal interests and theses (each of which ties into Version One’s firmwide network effects thesis) are constantly evolving – so this is a perpetual rough draft. 1) Open Internet  […]