Recapping Q2 2018: Portfolio News and Activities
Happy Canada Day and Fourth of July to our friends and colleagues on both sides of the border. We hope everyone is having a great start to summer. Here’s a quick recap of the key activities, news coverage and announcements that occurred in Q2. Keep in mind that these are just the things that have […]
Q1 2018 in Review: Portfolio News and Activities
Happy Tuesday! Hope you had a great Easter! It’s hard to believe that a whole quarter has flown by. In just the first few weeks of the new year, we saw a lot of M&A activity in our portfolio: @Mattermark (by @FullContact), @MemoAIHQ (by @coinbase), and @GoPike13 (by $CSU.ca). But there have been other big things happening across […]
Announcing our investment in CryptoKitties – the wildly popular, blockchain-based pet
We are very pleased to announce our investment in Axiom Zen, the maker of CryptoKitties. We participated in the $12M Series A alongside our friends at USV and a16z. And, we are excited to be working with the CryptoKitties team to create the leading crypto collectible platform. If you’ve missed the CryptoKitty mania, it’s a […]
Announcing our investment in Drover, a new way to get a car
We’re pleased to formally announce our prior seed investment in the London-based car subscription company, Drover. And we’re even happier to announce that Drover has just raised a £5.5 million Series A round. We co-led the £2 million seed investment with Forward Partners, and today Drover is announcing they’ve closed a Series A round, which […]
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 […]