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Announcing our investment in Inflection.io – marketing automation for product-led growth

Version One Ventures

We’re very excited to announce our investment in Inflection.io , as the company comes out of stealth with a $5M seed round. 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.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

It was also beneficial because I got some good experience with both B2B and B2C business models. I know you are still in stealth, but what can you tell us. And what do you think about the controversy about stealth vs. not for startups? After BITSource was successfully acquired, I moved to L.A. What are you working on now?

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Q3 2017 Round-Up: Portfolio News and Activities

Version One Ventures

We welcomed Gencove , a B2B sequencing company, to our portfolio. Ada Support (an AI-driven customer support agent) came out of stealth and announced their seed round led by Bessemer. We announced our investment in Manifold , t he easiest way to find and manage essential developer services. It’s our first investment in genomics.

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Marketing Your Startup: A Billion-Dollar Company’s First Marketer Reflects Back

View from Seed

Some startups are in stealth mode and maybe branding and beautiful design is important. Even identifying as a demand-gen marketer or branding or B2B or B2C leaves a lot of decisions still on the table to actually execute. NVV: What about all the various tactics available to you even with the broader style of marketing fitting yourself?

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What Are the Benefits of Stealth Mode for Startups, Really?

View from Seed

Startups and their founders who claim to be in “stealth mode” prior to launch are such a commonplace part of the startup ecosystem that it might seem odd to question its merits. But it’s important to address this head on and ask: What are the benefits of stealth mode for startups, really? .

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Accidental VC: When Should Startups Announce Seed Funding?

View from Seed

This particular company, as a B2B SaaS business, would definitely benefit from driving traffic to convert into subscribers or leads on their email list. Depending on how stealthy you plan to be (and there are pros and cons for being in stealth mode ), it’s good to have a public record of the company by generating some press.

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Meet the new Cloud Unicorn from Israel: Melio raises $110m to transform B2B payments

Cracking the Code

The first time I met Matan, the founder of Melio, he told me that his mission was simple: he wanted to “help small businesses stay in business” by making B2B payments fast, simple and flexible. just months after it came out of stealth. We think this gap will reduce dramatically in the next few years.

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