Version One Ventures

JULY 5, 2017

Q2 has been busy for Version One and our portfolio companies – here’s a quick recap of select news coverage, funding announcements, and product updates (at least the things we can announce publicly): . Portfolio Companies in the News. Laura Behrens Wu and Simon Kreuz of Shippo were named to Inc’s 30 under 30.

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YFS Magazine

JULY 5, 2018

As someone who has secured several great domain names over the years, follow these tips and you might create a nice little portfolio of domains as well.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Venture capital: it’s the jet fuel behind many of the most explosive startups turning them into household names. By investing in more established companies, venture capitalists can stabilize their portfolios, ensuring a smoother ride toward profitability. However, managing such a portfolio is no small feat.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 5, 2019

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. I came up with my company name by asking myself, what will I be doing often? When I was naming it, I had a few criteria.

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David Teten

MARCH 28, 2012

Best Practices in Venture Capital Portfolio Company Value Creation. In addition, in light of increasing competition in the startup funding space, a methodology for helping portfolio companies consistently is a strong competitive advantage. I’ve also posted this at Betabeat.). View more presentations from David Teten.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2019

A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. In reality, patents are only one of at least eight items that should be in your IP portfolio. Here are the key elements: Company name. Internet domain name. This name (www.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

It isn’t difficult to find deals when building your commercial real estate (CRE) portfolio. CRE is one of the most lucrative portfolios , offering advantages over residential investments, although interest rates can be higher. For example, some investors may use multiple loan types to keep their CRE portfolio growing.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 29, 2017

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. I came up with my business name Aging Youthful when the network marketing company I am involved with came out with a product for youthful aging.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 27, 2021

Today, we have invested in over 100 high-growth companies, some of which have grown to be household names with thousands of employees making a huge impact in the everyday lives of everyday people. . You will also spearhead internal initiatives to help support the success of our 100+ exciting existing portfolio companies.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 20, 2018

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. The name MissHeard Media came as a group effort. It turned out to be the name of a wrestler and a gun magazine. 1- Group effort.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 31, 2023

The Shopify Partners form requires you to fill in this information: Business name and primary email address Site link Address Your primary plan to earn through the program Past experiences with ecommerce platforms Shopify Partners program is easy to join for everyone, even if you want to test it out.

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David Teten

MAY 1, 2013

This is part 1 of a 2-part series on domain names and startups; part 2 will be “ Build Your Startup on a Vacant Domain Name ”. This bench at Cathedral Lawn is engraved with country domain names such as.uk,us,nz It is no coincidence that companies with the best domain names often tend to rise to the top of their space.

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Version One Ventures

JUNE 30, 2022

Brennan Spellacy , CEO of Patch , was named to the 2022 GreenBiz 30 under 30 list. Shellworks , one of our newest portfolio companies, raised $6.2 As always, to keep up to date with our portfolio companies, follow us on Twitter. Funding and Accolades. and Renewable Energy Group joining the round. million in seed funding.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 8, 2019

Q4 was an important quarter for our firm and portfolio companies. Two Version One teams were named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list! And, Laura Behrens Wu, CEO of Shippo , was named to Vanity Fair’s Future Innovator’s Index. Follow @VersionOneVC for the latest news from us and our portfolio! Announcements.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. I then ran a crowdsourced contest on crowdSpring to come up with ideas for the name. CrownTV is a spinoff of that name.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Outreach and Shippo were both named 2022 Cloud 100 honorees for the second year in a row! . Filebase announced upcoming changes to their platform, namely removing Skynet and Storj integrations permanently. And as always, to keep up to date with our portfolio companies, you can follow us on Twitter. Boston, and Philly.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2013

Perhaps the biggest piece of new news is that after 17 years of operations we’ve changed our name from GRP Partners to Upfront Ventures. We wanted our name to reflect both the changes we’ve made and how we plan to operate for the next 20 years. Our portfolio companies value us as sparring partners. What’s up with that?

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 11, 2022

Here are some of the many (public) highlights across the portfolio. . Dapper Labs was named one of Fast Company’s most innovative companies of 2022 (#1 in most innovating gaming companies). Spring is here, and we’re well into 2022! As always, there’s never a dull moment in the Version One family. Fundraising announcements.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

Portfolio company support & analysis. Portfolio community building. He jumped into some portfolio company exercises to help with pricing strategies, budget templates, M&A support, marketing function reviews, etc and started to show us how valuable he was to entrepreneurs. We relaunched our brand name.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 4, 2016

Yet, as long as you do it the right way, you can end up being a wise investor, and one of the most important factors to take into account is your portfolio. Starting with a solid and manageable portfolio can help to set the pace so that the rest of your financial investments stay in check. Determining Diversification.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

We frequently tell entrepreneurs that advisors who are just names on a page are kind of a waste of time. When Rob, David, and I started NextView nearly five years ago we thought it was important to enlist a small group of talented entrepreneurs as we built and helped our portfolio over time. Portfolio' But … Stay Tuned.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 11, 2019

When you complete your nanodegree(s) you have industry-recognized credentials and a portfolio of your completed projects. The portfolio is invaluable because it shows real-world problems you solved during your extensive training course. The whole premise behind them is specialized training that is specific, hands-on and real-world.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 16, 2023

I’ve been heads down working with K9 portfolio companies and spending my time running HiHello as the co-founder and CEO of that company. The name of the candidate will often be very American-sounding. This is true not only of the first name but also the last name of the candidate. Like a lot, a lot.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

When we create new platform initiatives, our team tries to think about how we can be the most impactful with our portfolio companies. Today, we’re thrilled to announce a new program that we hope will help our portfolio companies with two of these bullets. Building a great product. Sara Wajnberg, SVP of Product at Oscar.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 28, 2020

The tumultuous nature of the plummet highlighted a burgeoning need for investors to have proper portfolio diversification; advice commonly given out, but scarcely followed. Portfolio diversification spreads your risk, as you can invest in multiple industries. This is achieved through programming logic into the device, hence its name.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 7, 2020

Congratulations to Manny Medina and everyone at Outreach , which was named the Fourth Fastest Growing Company in North America on Deloitte’s 2019 Technology Fast 500™. Outreach was named to this prestigious list thanks in part to triple-digit year-over-year revenue growth and the largest customer base in the sales engagement category.

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Version One Ventures

JUNE 30, 2021

Here are just some of many activities and accomplishments in the V1 portfolio during the past quarter…. SilviaTerra changed its name to NCX , after its Natural Capital Exchange carbon market , and raised a $20M Series A led by Marc Benioff, who also joined as a board member. . And what a busy first half it was. Public listings.

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Transformify

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Plus, not only does this mean you’re more likely to secure exciting projects or roles, but it can also help you to get your name out there and get ahead in your field. It can also help you to study as part of a group and just generally get your name out there as much as possible. So what are you waiting for?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

After my board meeting I had to do an interview with a CFO candidate that one of my portfolio companies asked me to speak with. I then had to review a nefarious IP lawsuit filed against another company and help the CEO figure out whether we should just pay it or join forces with the other companies named and fight it.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. businessname #business #entrepreneur #startup #name #compilation #instagram #ceoblognation #blog #newblog #blogpost #livetoday.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 20, 2022

A good example of this is a smartphone case with the customer’s name engraved into it. When you’re putting together design ideas and portfolios on your tablets and computers, you will need a digital space to store them. The engraving laser is the most important function of your machine. 3. Cloud Storage.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 12, 2022

While Metaverse rose to fame initially due to Facebook’s name change into ‘Meta’ to express their ambition to become a Metaverse company within 5 years (and perhaps deflect some of the negative PR), there are now many large companies, startups and brands working on their metaverse strategy. We’ve made several investments in this space.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

LESSON #1: Equip your business with a portfolio map and a 21st century org chart. To do the same, Alex recommends building two things: a business portfolio map that recognizes invention as necessary and an updated organization chart. So that gives us two different management structures for these two different portfolios.”

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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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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Before we head into the last quarter of the year, let’s take a few minutes to highlight some notable announcements made over the summer in the V1 portfolio. Laura Behrens Wu of Shippo was named to Inc’s second annual Female Founders 100 List , recognizing the women building America’s most innovative and ambitious businesses.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

The two companies did the same thing and were the only two competitors in a nascent category called “email change of address” (Veripost’s original name was IECOA which stood for “Internet Email Change of Address”). I’ve worked with Matt for over 20 years and have experienced many ups and downs.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 2, 2018

We’re particularly proud and excited for this development, as it’s two portfolio companies joining forces! Sales automation company Outreach was named to Forbes’ Cloud 100 list and made its first acquisition. The post Q3 2018 Summary: Portfolio News and Activities appeared first on Version One. Follow us on Twitter: [link].

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