Announcing our investment in Gadze Finance
Building a successful investment franchise over the past few decades required finding a distribution advantage as products have been mostly undifferentiated. The largest and most successful US franchises — Blackrock (founded 1988), Vanguard (founded 1975), and Fidelity (founded 1946) — are now managing close to $20 trillion in assets. While traditional finance offers few options […]
Q3 2021 Portfolio news
It’s hard to believe that we are heading into the home stretch of 2021. But before we do, let’s look back at the busy summer that the Version One family had! Fundraising and Exits Patch, an API platform for negative emissions, raised a $20M Series A led by Coatue Management with participation from existing investors […]
Replay launches out of beta – record and replay web applications to fix bugs faster!
Today we’re excited to share the official launch of Replay, a browser that records all of the context that developers and engineers need to fix bugs faster. It has been years since I’ve written a line of code… but there are some pain points that I’ll never forget. Nothing that I programmed ever compiled perfectly […]
Announcing our investment in Tenderly to build the world’s first end-to-end Ethereum developer platform
Today we are very excited to announce our investment in the Ethereum developer platform Tenderly. We participated in Tenderly’s $3.3M Seed round earlier this year, as well as their recent $15.3M Series A round. The Series A is led by Accel, with participation from Point Nine Capital (who led their seed), Version One, and angel […]
Q2 2021 Portfolio news
It’s hard to believe that we’re already halfway through 2021! And what a busy first half it was. Here are just some of many activities and accomplishments in the V1 portfolio during the past quarter… Public listings Coinbase went live with its direct listing on Nasdaq, becoming one of the most valuable public listings of […]