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Q3 2020 Portfolio Review

Version One Ventures

As we do at the end of every quarter, we’ve summarized some of the key highlights and activities across our portfolio. . The Globe and Mail included three of our portfolio companies Ada (#11), Jobber (#87), and Top Hat (#230) on its list of the 400 top growing companies in Canada. . Announcements.

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Replay launches out of beta – record and replay web applications to fix bugs faster!

Version One Ventures

Today we’re excited to share the official launch of Replay , a browser that records all of the context that developers and engineers need to fix bugs faster. Knowing this problem firsthand (even if not in my day-to-day work), I immediately fell in love with Replay’s time-travel debugger demo when I first met the team in July 2020.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders?

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The top 10 companies investing billions in the Metaverse

VC Cafe

Tim Sweeney, the founder and CEO of Epic is a long term visionary of our online future and the Metaverse. Tim Sweeney, Epic Games’ founder and CEO. The largest and most popular 3D engine has big plans for the Metaverse. monthly active end-users who are engaging with content created or operated by Unity solutions in 2020.

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Does Your VC have an Investment Thesis, or a Hypothesis?

David Teten

(co-written with Stephane Nasser , co-founder of OpenVC , an open-source initiative to collect and analyze all VC theses.). OpenVC is a new, open-source initiative to collect and analyze all publicly available VC theses, to help founders more efficiently find the right investors, and vice-versa. Technical founders .

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ESG in Venture Capital: Interview with Blue Future Partners (VC Fund of Funds)

David Teten

A lot of these challenges became grossly apparent in 2020: social instability, climate crisis, public health crises, national security crises, disinformation. Starship was launched by the co-founders of Skype. – StratiFi is the first low-cost, intuitive, and scalable portfolio hedging SaaS platform for investors.

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5 Keys To The Startup Mindset Required For Breakthrus

Startup Professionals Musings

Elon Musk , for example, admits to reading up to two books per day in various disciplines, including physics, engineering, product design, business, technology, and energy, to give him insights on new solutions and new opportunities, despite his large portfolio already. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 03/19/2020.