View from Seed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

This includes exits from the acquisitions and public offerings of companies like TripleLift, Skillz, Drift, ThredUp, Parsec and others, which allowed us to return multiples of several different funds. In terms of strategy, many things remain the same. We have also strived to seek out and engage with founders of non-traditional backgrounds.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 19, 2016

If you’re not already familiar with the startups and founders making up the V1 portfolio, here’s a summary of some of this quarter’s news clippings. Portfolio companies in the news. Beyond funding announcements, several portfolio companies made the news this quarter. Funding and Follow-ons.

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Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

Here’s How to Interpret VC Reactions To a Portfolio Company Acquisition. For the first time, I pull back the cover and share this with you, putting myself at risk by breaking the venture omerta. “Glad the team found a great home to continue their mission!

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 8, 2023

Obvious caveats to my POV here, most specifically: exposure is limited to largely the US/SiliconValley ecosystem, driven by our own portfolio, my friends and co-investors, the funds I’m a LP in, and our institutional LP relationships. Soft Acquisition Market. Many VCs Owned Too Little of Their Portfolio Companies to Begin With.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

What You Can Learn From Public Markets It doesn’t really take a genius to realize that what happens in the public markets will filter back to the private markets because the ultimate exit of these companies is either an IPO or an acquisition (often by a public company whose valuation is fixed daily by the market). So it’s about 20%.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 4, 2019

One or two of the best companies may continue to appreciate, but most of a VC’s portfolio has probably been realized, written off, or has maxed out its value. The longer the portfolio maintains the same value without distributing back cash, the worse the fund’s ultimate IRR. This would suggest that TVPI would be performing well.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Scaling Your Business Through Acquisition written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Key Takeaway: Acquisition is a fast way to grow your business. Key Takeaway: Acquisition is a fast way to grow your business. Marketing Podcast with Roland Frazier. In this episode, Investor and Co-Founder of 5 different Inc.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Dear Brightly (a NextView portfolio company) provides a telemedicine-powered ecommerce experience for prescription-grade retinoids so consumers no longer need to take time off work to go see a dermatologist for 10 minutes just to obtain a prescription for the serum.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 8, 2019

Q4 was an important quarter for our firm and portfolio companies. You can read about the acquisition here. Follow @VersionOneVC for the latest news from us and our portfolio! The post Q4 2018: Portfolio News and Activities appeared first on Version One. As we move ahead into 2019, we can ride some great momentum.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The new equity round will fuel additional growth and provide capital for further acquisitions. And as always, to keep up to date with our portfolio companies, you can follow us on Twitter. Cap Hill Brands raised $100M in a Series B round led by BlackRock. We participated in the round along with prior investors Maveron and Ascend. .

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

David Cancel – Co-founder/CEO of Driftt (Co-founder/CEO of Performable at the time he first joined our group of advisors, after which he became HubSpot’s Chief Product Officer following an acquisition of Performable). Portfolio' Mike Baker – CEO of DataXu. Brian Shin – Founder/CEO of Visible Measures.

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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…. We have been active investors in DeFi for almost three years now and you can read about why we’re thrilled to add Defined to our portfolio. . Acquisitions. It’s hard to believe that we’re already halfway through 2021!

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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! You can read more about the acquisition from Coinbase and on Wired. Sales automation company Outreach was named to Forbes’ Cloud 100 list and made its first acquisition. Follow us on Twitter: [link].

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View from Seed

APRIL 2, 2024

VC’s across the board have generally upped their game and are much more involved in the startup ecosystem and with their portfolios. This happened both in term of large-scale mergers (Coors and Miller for example) as well as via acquisition of craft players (like Heinekin’s acquisition of Lagunitas).

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Changing Acquisition. The only way we’re really going to change is by trying to create more and more pockets in the defense portfolio and programs that are open to real competition. Shockingly” many of those things are irrelevant when they show up, if they ever show up at all.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 25, 2012

And the funds came from revenue generated by my portfolio of web applications and websites that I’ve built over the past several years. This acquisition is a long story, but if you have a few minutes let me tell you the best parts. But within 24 hours we were off and running, discussing a potential acquisition.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

These phases are focused on inorganic growth, mergers, buyouts, acquisitions, and exit preparation for the business. Investors usually carry a portfolio of startups. So, it is natural for them to fund companies that are complementary to the startups already in their portfolio. Stages of Funding.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

David Cancel – Co-founder/CEO of Driftt (Co-founder/CEO of Performable at the time he first joined our group of advisors, after which he became HubSpot’s Chief Product Officer following and acquisition of Performable.). Mike Baker – Co-Founder/CEO of DataXu. Brian Shin – Founder/CEO of Visible Measures.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 27, 2014

The good news is that a patent can scare off or at least delay competitors, and as a “rule of thumb” patents can add up to $1M to your startup valuation for investors or M&A exits (merger and acquisition). Marty Zwilling. entrepreneur Lodsys software patents startup'

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 5, 2023

General Bucky Butow – Director of the Space Portfolio. ” Team 3: Acquisition. For semiconductors, the White House Coordinator for the CHIPS Act – Ronnie Chatterji, and the CTO of Applied Materials – Om Nalamasu. For Artificial Intelligence, Lt. Jason Kim : “ This course doesn’t just discuss U.S.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

David Cancel – Co-founder/CEO of Driftt (Co-founder/CEO of Performable at the time he first joined our group of advisors, after which he became HubSpot’s Chief Product Officer following and acquisition of Performable.). advice and mentorship to founders in the NextView portfolio. Mike Baker – Co-Founder/CEO of DataXu.

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David Cohen

JULY 15, 2019

Recently, at Techstars , we’re noticing more and more that we are being asked to sign up for joint unlimited liability for fraud in the context of M&A with one of our portfolio companies. The post Watch out for unfair indemnity during acquisitions appeared first on Hi, I'm David G. That is not acceptable.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

billion acquisition of Weta Digital, Peter Jackson’s VFX company, gives Unity capabilities in creating hyper realistic virtual environments using RT3D (real-time 3D) technology. Microsoft has recently spent $70 billion in cash to acquire Activision Blizzard, the most expensive gaming acquisition of all time. Also, their $1.6

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 29, 2015

Maybe the acquiring company is looking for a unique technology asset to round out its portfolio. Or perhaps the acquired business seeks an acquisition deal to gain access to a wider marketplace. No matter what the reason, an acquisition tends to shake things up at both businesses. Companies are bought and sold every day.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2021

When you’ve been playing the game a bit longer or when you have responsibilities at the fund level you start thinking more about “portfolio construction.” So if you truly want to be great at investing you need all the right skills and access AND a diversified portfolio. You’re thinking about one bullet at a time.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 19, 2015

Sales people (and website customer acquisition folks) all think in terms of funnels and yet non-sales professionals seldom do. I worked with a successful portfolio company recently that had to make some big moves in the market. And I bring this up because it comes up with many, many portfolio conversations.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Let’s take my own portfolio as an example. To my knowledge, only 4 out of my 35 portfolio companies have filed for patents. Three of those have since been acquired and patents did not play a significant role in the acquisition process. The same logic holds true for most acquiring companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

One of the things I discuss the most with the portfolio companies I’m involved with is that “you manage what you measure.”. Customer Acquisition. Those two things together would lower your acquisition costs nearly in half to $6.11. Ironically, there are times where it may actually pay to INCREASE your customer acquisition costs.

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Gust

OCTOBER 19, 2014

The good news is that a patent can scare off or at least delay competitors, and as a “rule of thumb” patents can add up to $1M to your startup valuation for investors or M&A exits (merger and acquisition). Invested Interests software patents startups trolls'

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 11, 2018

2) When you do get to the point where you think the person has an interesting skillset and you'd like to get a better idea of where they are talentwise-- outsource your assessment to Headlight Labs (A Brooklyn Bridge Ventures portfolio company). 3) Collaborate with other companies on sourcing through events.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 13, 2023

Especially in the early days of mobile/iOS engineering, if you hired strong technical talent into your early stage company, you basically created an acquisition outcome floor. Those who do, often believe they can hire from the open market without the hassle of an acquisition. And now I’m telling you the world is different.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 16, 2016

VC’s raise money from their investors (limited partners like pension funds) and then spread their risk by investing in a number of startups (called a portfolio). Not for some short-time “lets flip the company” strategy but an eye for who, how and when you can make an acquisition happen. Square, Uber, Palantir, Fitbit, etc.)

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

By Marina Djordjevic, Director of Talent Acquisition at Idean. Interview processes are an important part of the effort to add creative talent — in-person meetings, panel interview formats, portfolio review, etc., Marina Djordjevic is the Director of Talent Acquisition at global design firm, Idean.

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Up and Running

MAY 10, 2021

Simply research the company with its portfolio. What is your customer acquisition cost? Your development team is the key to your success. Today, there are thousands of development teams all over the world. How can you choose the right one? Successful teams normally have successful apps behind their back. 1-2 months?

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Artificial Inteligence Developer Development Team Review United Kingdom 150

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. We sometimes think of being a fast follower in pejorative terms.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 21, 2014

Maybe they''re locked up in golden handcuffs post-acquisition of their startup. Plus, from the advisor side, it might be a good way to build up a little portfolio of startup equity without having to put up angel cash. They can help vet what you''re building, give you credibility in the hiring process and help assess candidates.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 17, 2022

And thus we’ve seen the rise of product-led companies…companies that rely on the product itself to drive user acquisition, activation and retention. . We’re also excited to report that Inflection is the first company to come out of Pienza (also a Version One portfolio company). P.S.: You can request a demo here!

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