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 […]

Announcing our seed investment into Defined, a programable data platform for DeFi

We are very happy to announce our seed investment into Defined, a programmable data platform for decentralized finance (DeFi). We led the $2.5m round with participation from Mark Cuban, Balaji Srinivasan, Tiny Capital, Compound, Inflection, Portico Ventures, Capital 6, Rasool Rayani, and Kamunting Street Capital. We have been active investors in DeFi for almost three […]

Announcing our investment in Filebase, the API-layer to access decentralized storage 

We’re excited to announce our investment in Filebase, the first S3-compatible object storage platform powered by decentralized storage networks. They just announced their $2M seed round led by our friends at Multicoin Capital with participation by Version One.  We are very bullish about decentralized storage, and this investment closely follows our recent investment in Arweave, […]

Announcing our investment in Pickle Robot Company

In case you missed it last week, Pickle Robot Company, a robotics startup based in Cambridge, MA, shared that they raised $5.75M in seed funding. Today, we are excited to announce our investment in this round led by Hyperplane with participation from Third Kind Ventures, Box Group, and others. It’s no secret that the warehousing […]