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Q4 2020 Portfolio Review

Version One Ventures

For a second consecutive year , Jobber was named one of the fastest-growing companies in North America on Deloitte’s 2020 Technology Fast 500. . Stay on top of the latest news from our portfolio in 2021 by following us on Twitter! NBA Top Shot (built by the Dapper Labs team) won Best Innovative App award at the Galaxy Store Awards. .

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Launching a Portfolio Acceleration Platform at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten

I’ve recently advised a number of emerging private equity and VC funds who are wrestling with the question: What are the highest impact steps they can take to support their portfolio companies? . Almost every private equity and venture capital investor now advertises that they have a platform to support their portfolio companies.

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Q2 2019 Summary: Portfolio News and Activities

Version One Ventures

We welcomed Dolly (same -day retail delivery service) to our portfolio, after participating in a $7.5m Coinbase expanded its cryptocurrency Visa Debit Cards across Europe and also welcomed 11 countries in Latin America and Asia. The post Q2 2019 Summary: Portfolio News and Activities appeared first on Version One.

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How Non-Partisan Business Leaders Can Help Fix America

David Teten

The most impactful step you can take to help America more accurately reflect our citizens’ (and your company’s) political goals is to increase voting rates. That’s bad for America, and it’s bad for business. Why Competition in the Politics Industry is Failing America. A) Vote and complete the census. For further reading: .

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Helping to Eliminate Racism in America

Feld Thoughts

I decided that I’d spend the next 20 years actively helping to eliminate racism in America. At the end of last week, two articles written by CEOs in our portfolio made the rounds on our CEO list. I want him to grow up in an America that will treat him equally as a U.S. This first is from Xiao Wang, the CEO of Boundless.

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We are Adding a Principal to Our Investment Team

View from Seed

You will spend the rest of your time working alongside the partners throughout the investment process – analyzing investment opportunities, assisting in market research and diligence, and post-investment portfolio support. You will be based in the NYC office but will be able to pursue investments across North America. About NextView.

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2021: The Version One year in review

Version One Ventures

The incredible pace of the start-up market in 2021 is also reflected in the Version One portfolio: . We made 15 investments in new portfolio companies in 2021, roughly twice our yearly average. Our portfolio companies raised well over $1b in follow-on capital this year, with about half of that number raised by Dapper Labs.