Happy New Year! The final quarter of 2025 brought meaningful momentum across the V1 portfolio, with founders closing Q4 strong and building toward an even bigger 2026. We’re excited to carry that progress into the months ahead.

Before we fully shift our focus to what’s next, here’s a look back at a few highlights and announcements from the quarter. As always, this is just a slice of what we can share publicly.

Fundraising

Arctus Aerospace closed a $2.6M pre-seed round, led by V1 with participation from South Park Commons, gradCapital, and angels including Balaji Srinivasan and Srinivas Narayan (OpenAI). Arctus is pioneering a new category of high-altitude, long-endurance autonomous aircraft that deliver real-time, centimetre-level geospatial intelligence — flying up to 45,000 feet, staying airborne for 24+ hours, and carrying 250 kg payloads — all without relying on costly satellite systems. Here’s more on why we invested.

Loon raised a $3M pre-seed round alongside Garage Capital and a group of strategic angels. The company is building Canada’s first regulated stablecoin- more why we’re excited.

Accolades and Milestones

Tenderly was ranked #5 on the Talent Titans Top 100 Companies to Work For in Web3 — a great acknowledgment of the team’s strong culture and reputation in the developer ecosystem.

Jobber received two recognitions last quarter — it was named a 2025 Rocketship by TechTO and also earned a spot on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 list, reflecting the company’s strong growth and continued leadership in the home-service software category.

Another portfolio company appeared on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 list — Neo Financial, which placed #73. And the Neo Mastercard was voted the best Cash Back Credit Card in the 2025 Canada’s Choice awards.

Eddy Chiang, CEO of Moment Energy, was named Fasken’s Climate Tech Founder of the Year 2025, recognizing his leadership in repurposing retired electric vehicle batteries into sustainable energy storage systems. Moment Energy also secured $5M in additional financing from TD Innovation Partners to scale production of its Luna BESS platform and strengthen North American energy-storage supply chains.

The Uniswap Protocol marked a major milestone this quarter, surpassing $4T in all-time trading volume — roughly 2,600 days after launch.

Pickle Robot was named the Top Robotics Startup of 2025 on The Information’s 50 Most Promising Startups list. 

ether.fi closed their first week over $10M in transactions (and it was $11.75M!).  

Product Launches and Partnerships 

Flow outlined its clearest vision yet, introducing enshrined protocols, the Flow Credit Market, and the debut of Peak Money as new pillars of the platform’s next phase. You can read all about it here. 

Filebase introduced NFT Backup, a new Filebase feature that makes preserving your NFT data effortless, automated, and truly multi-chain.

Dinari partnered with LayerZero to enable 200 tokenized U.S. stocks to move and settle seamlessly across blockchains — expanding interoperability for real-world asset trading.

Inflection launched its MCP server, helping marketing teams increase their speed and output with AI.

Jam launched its iOS app, making it easier for teams to capture and log bugs directly from their phones. The team also introduced Pls Fix, a lightweight way to share issues and feedback with a simple link.

As always, you can stay up to date with news as it happens by following us on [X] and LinkedIn.

We’re grateful to everyone in the V1 community — founders, partners, and friends — for being part of the journey.

Here’s to an amazing 2026 ahead!