Long-term partner Acton Capital (for whom I act as a venture partner for North-America) has…
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All membership organizations I am involved in face the same challenges: how to deliver value to and engage their members, how increase revenues to invest back into their organization and how to do all this on a shoestring budget. Technology can help solve these problems for the millions of associations out there and I am […]
Long-term partner Acton Capital (for whom I act as a venture partner for North-America) has…
I have been watching Michael Cole and his Vancouver-based company Fitbrains for almost two years…
All membership organizations I am involved in face the same challenges: how to deliver value to and engage their members, how increase revenues to invest back into their organization and how to do all this on a shoestring budget. Technology can help solve these problems for the millions of associations out there and I am happy to announce an investment in one of the leaders in this space. SilkStart provides membership organizations with a simple SaaS solution that provides a one-stop shop for everything from membership management to event ticketing to social networking features. The product is already used by some leading membership organizations, including the Vancouver Board of Trade, US Asian American Chamber of Commerce in Washington DC, VANTEC and DigiBC, and has received extremely good feed-back in the marketplace.
Daniel Chu and his team are some of the hungriest entrepreneurs I have seen in a long time and I am sure that they will run with this company long and far – excited to be part of it going forward!
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It’s hard to believe we’re already three quarters into the year. At V1, we’re all about finishing strong, and Q3 gave us plenty of reasons to be excited about what’s ahead. As always, we’ve rounded up a quick snapshot of the action across our portfolio from the past quarter: Funding announcements We welcomed TRIC Robotics […]
The V1 family kicked off the new year with fresh energy and no shortage of…
Fall is in the air and we are heading into the last quarter of 2023.…