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: ApplyBoard We met CEO & co-Founder Martin Basiri in February 2016. Despite his passion for helping international students get into universities […]
Opportunity is everywhere: we’re now investing worldwide
A little bit more than a year ago, we made our first investment in a COVID world…it was 100% virtual, all via Zoom from start to finish. What seemed highly unusual at the time became the new modus operandi for Version One and the VC industry as a whole. We ended up doing three more […]