Resetting venture capital return expectations: is 10x the new 3x?
When I started Version One Ventures in 2012, every experienced VC shared the same rule of thumb: we had to return 3x net consistently to stay in business (i.e. 3x the invested capital net of fees over a period of about ten years for a net IRR in the low twenties). Ten years (almost) and […]
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 […]
We’re hiring a contract content creator!
A year and a half ago, we published the first edition of our Startup Handbook. It has been well received, with over 30K downloads to date. But any guide book is always a work in progress and we have received a lot of great feedback on how to make it more valuable. As such, we […]
Announcing Fund IV and Opportunities Fund II
We’re thrilled to announce the closing of two new funds: Fund IV ($70M USD) and Opportunities Fund II ($30M USD). While these funds may be new, our values and goals remain the same. We still look for pre-seed and seed stage opportunities, as we believe these are the stages where we can add the most […]
The Version One Anti-Portfolio – the opportunities we missed…
Bessemer started the idea of the “anti-portfolio” – the companies that you passed on, but ended up doing very, very well. Here is the Version One anti-portfolio that we have built over the past decade: Carta We were introduced to Henry Ward from eShares through our friend Manu Kumar from K9 Ventures in 2013. We […]