2021: The Version One year in review
2021 might be remembered as the year the world started to fully embrace the opportunity that the technology sector has to offer… Start-up funding hit an all-time high as did fundraising for new VC funds (coincidentally, we also raised two new funds for a total of $100m in fresh capital). Round sizes increased significantly across […]
Announcing our investment in EnPowered, a payment platform to increase the rate of cleantech adoption
We’re excited to announce our investment in EnPowered, an on-bill payment platform designed to make it easier for businesses to invest in energy-efficiency projects. We co-led their $12M seed raise, along with our friends at Golden Ventures and Inovia. Great technologies exist to help businesses reduce their electricity usage, emissions, and energy bills. The problem? […]
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 […]