View from Seed

JULY 31, 2014

We’ve been remarkably consistent on this dimension as well: five of the recent 13 investments were B2C, five were B2B, and three you could categorize as B2B2C. More interesting, however, is reflecting on what “rhymes” across multiple investments within our portfolio. BUSINESS-FOCUSED (B2B). Network Effect B2B.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 26, 2022

Accordingly, people were obliged to look for opportunities on online B2B chemical marketplaces. People in the chemical industries became closer even before COVID-19, B2B digital marketplaces: A New Era. — Gaurang Pancholi ; Sales and Sourcing; Rasayanconnect.com; a B2B Chemical Sourcing Marketplace. Microsoft Teams.

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View from Seed

MAY 24, 2021

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. We invest nationally across Consumer and B2B, while most of our investments are based in NYC, SF/Bay Area, and Boston.

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Version One Ventures

JUNE 30, 2022

Shellworks , one of our newest portfolio companies, raised $6.2 Inflection , a B2B marketing automation solution, raised $5M in seed funding to dethrone Marketo. . Inflection announced a direct integration with Snowflake for data warehouse-based B2B marketing automation. . and Renewable Energy Group joining the round.

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View from Seed

APRIL 27, 2020

We can stay busy by expending time and effort supporting the existing portfolio, which is the right thing to do and a good use of time. Like most VC’s, we’ve been engrossed in helping our portfolio company founders navigate these challenging times while thinking through how we will approach this market going forward. Wait and see.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

Bitcoin Allocation – Growing the role of bitcoin in investment portfolios. AI to build enterprise software – In the future, every enterprise could have their own custom ERP, CRM or HRIS that is continually updating itself as the company itself is changing.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 18, 2013

These new investments bring the total number of portfolio companies to 14. We also participated in 6 follow-on deals this year to further support our portfolio. We remain geographically agnostic; 8 portfolio companies are located in Canada and 6 in the U.S. News portfolio review' Boris & Angela.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 8, 2019

Q4 was an important quarter for our firm and portfolio companies. Karthik Sridharan, founder of Kinnek , wrote a great article on Medium on what they’ve learned from building the largest North American B2B marketplace. Follow @VersionOneVC for the latest news from us and our portfolio! Announcements.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Inflection launched “ Inflection for startups ,” free B2B marketing automation. And as always, to keep up to date with our portfolio companies, you can follow us on Twitter. Defined introduced its NFT Realtime activity view. You can watch and filter NFT mint and sale activity across 42 networks as transactions happen on-chain. .

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Version One Ventures

MAY 3, 2023

E-commerce (DTC and infrastructure), fin tech (lending, payments), healthcare and B2B marketplaces are some of the verticals that have seen tremendous growth. Freshbooks and Zoho are the best-known examples from past decades, but an increasing number of start-ups are joining that effort (among others, our portfolio company Headout).

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Haystack

DECEMBER 18, 2019

In addition to this trend, in 2019 I’ve noticed another one — a growing interest among VCs in B2B marketplaces. Let me state upfront that the idea of B2B marketplaces is not new. As a result, I believe more founders are looking at variations on b2b models, and now more of those happen to be marketplaces.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 3, 2017

We continue to invest in blockchain companies and funds such as Coinbase and Metastable Capital , which join our existing crypto portfolio ( Blockstack , Citizen Hex and Polychain Capital ). We welcomed Gencove , a B2B sequencing company, to our portfolio. Select activities from around the portfolio.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Think of your first B2B web site as one step beyond your elevator pitch. Invest an hour a week looking at competitors’ web sites or viewing web designers’ portfolios. Advisors agree your startup is on the right track. Now is the time to get your web site up. It’s the first place a potential customer will go to check you out.

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Our Own Start-up

JULY 1, 2020

ShakeDeal is a B2B e-commerce marketplace for industrial goods and supplies, office, and housekeeping supplies including corporate gifting.

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Agile VC

MAY 13, 2013

While our portfolio at NextView is roughly equally weighted to consumer facing and B2B companies, it seems that for consumer companies in particular being first mover confers little benefit and the drawbacks probably outweigh whatever weak advantage might exist. This usually takes a lot of time, money, and energy.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 17, 2022

Inflection is the only marketing automation solution purpose built for B2B product-led companies. In years past, the B2B customer experience and buying process were owned by sales. Some of today’s most successful B2B companies are product-led. If you wanted to buy new software, you talked with a salesperson.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 2, 2019

Instead, they usually turn to B2B businesses that can help them keep their operations running. So, if you’ve been thinking about entering the corporate arena, starting your own B2B business makes a lot of sense. But what B2B business ideas are worth considering in 2019? Here are seven of them you should know about.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

However, it is important to check the portfolio of the program and see how many companies from your industry have participated. On the other hand, if the program’s portfolio demonstrates that they worked with quite a few companies in your field, you are good to go. Contact accelerator staff. It was all hypothetical.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 5, 2017

Q1 was a busy time for our firm and portfolio companies, and here’s a brief recap of some of the various news clippings, fundraising announcements, and other happenings across the V1 community. The V1 portfolio was well represented in Techvibes’ recent Canadian Startup Awards. Portfolio companies in the news.

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Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

But as anyone who is involved in B2C marketplaces knows, the dynamics governing B2C and B2B marketplaces are poles apart. But with B2B, the stakes are much higher: a bad transaction can hurt the business and reflect poorly on the purchaser. Shippo (a portfolio company) powers shipping for businesses. Standardize transactions.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 18, 2012

In today’s web landscape, word of mouth drives adoption and can lead to “winner takes all” (or almost all) in both B2C and B2B markets. Let’s take my own portfolio as an example. To my knowledge, only 4 out of my 35 portfolio companies have filed for patents. The same logic holds true for most acquiring companies.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

They provide a hands-on transformation and revenue growth partner for B2B technology companies. Later in 2014, Mitul played an instrumental role in transforming a loss-making mobile handset business into a profitable, and growing B2B enterprise cyber security business, achieving $2.7 Transformation of Mobile Handset business.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Here are some of the most memorable highlights for us in 2015: New portfolio companies. This year, we welcomed five new companies to the Version One portfolio: Headout : an on-demand marketplace for tours, activities and experiences. Portfolio Summary and Investment Focus. eSports, and virtual reality. .

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Version One Ventures

JUNE 16, 2020

We recently wrote that B2B marketplaces need to nail four things : aggregate product catalogs, automate procurement processes, increase trust/social proof, and integrate with key services in the ecosystem.

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Government Seattle Software Review Aggregator 125

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

9) Accelerate portfolio company value. See Beyond the Money: Best Practices of Venture Capitalists in Helping Early-Stage Companies Create Value and It’s the People: Improving Private Equity Portfolio Company Valuations by Working with Operating Executives.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

9) Accelerate portfolio company value. See Beyond the Money: Best Practices of Venture Capitalists in Helping Early-Stage Companies Create Value and It’s the People: Improving Private Equity Portfolio Company Valuations by Working with Operating Executives.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 28, 2014

Go B2B… 2C. Before leaving GE Healthcare in late 2010 to start Caremerge, Asif was responsible for a portfolio of healthcare products generating $140 million annually with over 3000 customers (Hospitals and large centers) worldwide. The ability to create a new niche segment within an industry is very attractive to investors.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 20, 2020

If you do, tread lightly and—like any good investor—make the targeting of startups less than 10% of your overall marketing and sales portfolio. If you’re a business owner looking to target startups: don’t. Spend your time on businesses that have budgets and the ability to feed your own operations into growth mode. Conclusion.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 27, 2011

I’m not the first person to describe this trend, and my prior background has been primarily as a consumer web guy more than in B2B companies. 3) UI/UX Matters in B2B - For decades, B2B application developers could skimp on innovating in the presentation layer. RentJuice is doing much the same in real estate software.

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View from Seed

JULY 17, 2019

Your company is likely both one step removed from many brand name B2B customers and a step removed from reporters and press that are excited to tell your story. One approach that we’ve seen work with a number of B2B businesses is to spend a disproportionate amount of effort in telling a momentum story about your company.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

We are both excited and honored to support the team at Prequel as they continue to help build a future of B2B software where data flows freely and seamlessly between vendors and their customers. The post Why We Invested in Prequel: The Future of ETL and Data Sharing appeared first on NextView Ventures.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

We’re also regularly following-on for existing portfolio companies.”. Investment Criteria: B2B SaaS or tech-enabled services with proven, recurring contracts. 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”).

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2018

More than a third of our investments at NextView is B2B, and here’s why: We want to invest in companies that directly affect how people experience the world in any context , and even if they’re not directly interacting with or purchasing from the startup. Types of B2B Everyday Economy Companies. Let me explain. 1) Enabling Layers.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Studies show that only 5% of B2B buyers are ready to buy. It helps them audit existing content portfolios (blog posts, landing pages, etc.) What: Wynter helps marketers to improve their copy with a panel of engaged B2B professionals. There’s only so much you can say about B2B panels in a way that nobody else has.

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Marketing Social Media Non-Compete Audience 109

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 20, 2020

If you do, tread lightly and—like any good investor—make the targeting of startups less than 10% of your overall marketing and sales portfolio. What Startup Advisors Should Do If you’re a business owner looking to target startups: don’t. In some cases, finding a serviceable niche among startup businesses can be very lucrative.

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Sweat Equity Non-Compete Startup Azure 78

David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

But for B2B sales, meeting people in person is often mandatory. In the venture capital/private equity business, investors are B2B microinfluencers. High-potential prospective employees of portfolio companies. Executives of large companies which may acquire or become clients of our portfolio companies. Tech stack.

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Social Media Technical Review Media Private Equity 60

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

I’ve primarily seen quantitative analytic techniques used in origination , filtering , and in portfolio company recruiting , but technology can be used throughout the nine steps of the private company investing process: The 9 Steps of the Private Company Investing Process. 8) Accelerate portfolio company value. 1) Market fund.

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