Announcing Our Investment in Swoop
We’re excited to share that Swoop has raised $7.3M, with participation from Version One alongside our friends at Long Journey, Variant, Soma Capital and Dune. This also marks Version One’s first investment in Africa – a market has the potential to produce the next generation of global platform companies. Swoop is building a super-app for […]
Announcing our investment in Dolly, a peer-to-peer marketplace for on-demand moving and retail delivery
We are excited to announce our investment in Dolly, where we participated in a $7.5M funding round alongside Unlock Venture Partners and Maveron. Like other peer-to-peer marketplaces, Dolly connects people in need of services with people who are ready to provide them. Dolly’s app connects individuals and businesses with local truck owners (“helpers”) to […]
Announcing our investment in Drover, a new way to get a car
We’re pleased to formally announce our prior seed investment in the London-based car subscription company, Drover. And we’re even happier to announce that Drover has just raised a £5.5 million Series A round. We co-led the £2 million seed investment with Forward Partners, and today Drover is announcing they’ve closed a Series A round, which […]
On-demand marketplaces: How to pull levers to reach Supply-Demand Equilibrium
This is the first in a series of posts summarizing our speakers’ insights from the Data-driven Marketplace Meetup on May 16. Today, we just need to pick up a phone to order groceries or a fully cooked meal, or hire someone to do our laundry or walk the dog. The rise of on-demand service apps […]
How Indiegogo Grew its Business
This is the fourth and final post covering speakers’ insights from our marketplace meetup held in San Francisco on October 20. If you haven’t already, check out previous posts detailing Andrew Chen’s (Uber) fireside chat on growth strategies, Anthony Marino’s (ThredUp) talk on managed marketplaces, and B2B marketplace dynamics from Shippo’s Mikhail Ledvich. The first […]