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An update on Version One’s thesis: backing mission-driven founders

Version One Ventures

We raised our first fund in summer 2012. By 2016, we had begun to specialize into a thesis-driven firm , focusing on businesses with potentially large network effects built around people and/or data. . We still think that network effects are incredibly valuable. We still think that network effects are incredibly valuable.

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Good Times Ahead for VC-backed Tech Companies?

Both Sides of the Table

More interestingly Montgomery expect the M&A market to grow to 600 in 2011 and 750 in 2012. Buyers aren’t oblivious to the fact that funds need to sell older portfolio companies and an oversupply relative to demand means that prices should still be challenged going forward.

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Who are the Major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

David Teten

We’re also regularly following-on for existing portfolio companies.”. Each of Feenix’s portfolio companies receives an investment in debt or equity and utilizes a subsidiary of Feenix as its credit card payment processor (“Feenix Payment Systems”). 10% of Feenix’s portfolio companies have received VC equity prior to their financing.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Three Open Opportunities For 2012

ReadWriteStart

At today's roundtable, we discussed three major trends and opportunities for 2012 and also worked with an entrepreneur from Europe. There are many ad networks that offer very low monetization rates and take a large sales commission. Social Contacts. Our audience of readers is full of entrepreneurs. And what do entrepreneurs do?

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The Twenty Year Itch: My Last VC Investment Out of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures

This is going to be BIG.

It will be the 105th deal out of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, the firm I started back in September 2012, and it will be the last deal I’ll be making out of my third fund. You can stop making new investments, but it will take years to actually work through your active portfolio companies. It will also be my last venture capital deal.

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Introducing our latest investment: Mattermark – Big Data Comes to VC

Version One Ventures

start-up databases/networks like CrunchBase and AngelList ) has led to unparalleled access to investment capital as more seed funds, angels, and syndicates emerge on the scene. The team are alumni of Y Combinator S12 as well as Batch 5 of 500 Startups in 2012. Like with most VCs, our inbound leads come from our network.

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Cracking The Code: Getting through the downturn: a few thoughts.

Cracking the Code

A few days ago, Bessemer West Coast SaaS Practice - David Cowan , Byron Deeter and myself, hosted a CFO Dinner for our SaaS portfolio at John Bentleys in Redwood City. Fifteen CFOs participated - about half of them from Bessemer portfolio SaaS companies (Cornerstone On Demand, Intacct. Rethink vertical segmentation: Healthcare?