Version One Ventures
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
This has been the key success factor for our portfolio company Ada who builds automation-first chat bots that are now used by companies like Telus, Coinbase, Upwork and AirAsia. Another example for an AI-first approach is our portfolio company Outreach that uses ML to create a much more sophisticated approach to sales engagement.
David Teten
AUGUST 19, 2019
Our wheelhouse is bootstrapped (or lightly capitalized) SMB SaaS. We’re also regularly following-on for existing portfolio companies.”. 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”). ARR of $500K+.
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Version One Ventures
OCTOBER 23, 2018
When we consider SaaS products in virtually every vertical, we realize how much potential there still is to re-invent the user experience. Note, this is something our portfolio company Ada is actually starting to address very successfully). And across the board in every vertical, why is a/b testing still so manual? For example….
David Teten
JANUARY 21, 2021
With a portfolio that includes food, tech, and services, the fund is industry-agnostic and focused on the overlooked and underrepresented with high-margin business models. Of Indie.VC’s portfolio, 60% of investments are not in NY, CA, or MA. The INTRO tool is available to non-portfolio companies as well. 20% initial ownership.
Hippoland
AUGUST 8, 2018
Or second time founders focus on lucrative verticals that pay more per eyeball or focus on ad formats that pay more (such as email newsletter sponsorships). In some sense, their moat is capital, because most people will not be able to access enough capital (either by raising or by bootstrapping) to go after a similar opportunity.
Hippoland
AUGUST 8, 2018
Or second time founders focus on lucrative verticals that pay more per eyeball or focus on ad formats that pay more (such as email newsletter sponsorships). In some sense, their moat is capital, because most people will not be able to access enough capital (either by raising or by bootstrapping) to go after a similar opportunity.
Hippoland
JULY 24, 2018
You need to be willing to bootstrap for about 5-10 years. In contrast to building a product company, where most people bootstrap for maybe 2-3 years and then either raise some money or build off of profits or throw in the towel, when you sign up to do your own VC, you are committed for 10 years (the standard life of a fund).
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