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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. . In addition, UNI arrived and was probably one of the largest token distribution events ever with 15% of all tokens going to nearly 300K liquidity providers and users. Announcements.

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

David Teten

Investment theses are just hypotheses; the portfolio shows how accurate the hypothesis was. But you must be doing real engineering of some kind. Foundry Group, investing primarily in “ Software and Internet ”, follows six major themes, e.g., Human Computer Interaction (HCI) or Distribution. No ideas or prototypes.

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The Essential Nature of In-Person Work For Early-Stage Startups

Hunter Walker

2020 has turned out to be a really interesting test of what happens when people stop being polite and start getting real. What I meant to say is 2020 has provided us a bunch of forced learnings around collaboration given that much of the tech world shifted from “mostly together in offices” to “mostly apart, at home, supported by software.”

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Opportunities for startups in the creator economy

VC Cafe

She makes money for the platform that hosts her without receiving the legal and financial protections of employee status, or the stock options typically given to the platform’s engineers, designers, and managers. billion in investments in 2021 (up to June 15), more than 3x the amount raised in this space in 2020. Creative Automation.

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SXSW Startups: X-Biomedical

Austin Startup

They currently have a fully functional, engineering class prototype. In addition to our expanding IP portfolio our competitive advantage includes our empathetically designed, super ergonomic technology. Who does X-Biomedical partner with to distribute the surgical visualization technologies to low-income and under-resourced countries?

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

trillion in 2020. In 2019 and 2020, we saw hundreds of millions of dollars in non-dilutive funding go to Texas startups, most of which had never worked with the government before. With science and engineering breakthroughs ingrained in the fabric of Houston’s economy, the region has become a thriving hub of digital technology talent.

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The Story of How/Why K9 Invested in Pragli

K9 Ventures

Here is a quick video: It all started with this tweet by Jeff Richards of GGV Capital ( @jrichlive ) on Twitter: Caption this: pic.twitter.com/EoOHzVKhYh — Jeff Richards (@jrichlive) February 7, 2020. HiHello has a remote team of engineers – in New York, Pennsylvania, Colorado, and California.

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