ReadWriteStart

JULY 26, 2022

Many shutdowns and market dry-ups resulted in domestic dependency that narrowed down where products could be found. 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. Regulatory.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

Alow users to generate, refine, and stitch different content types in one workspace Enabling in-platform refinement – AI products can help users identify what can be improved, and then automatically make these changes. Iterating with intelligent editors – products that enable users to take an existing output and refine it (ex.

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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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View from Seed

MAY 24, 2021

You have unbounded curiosity for emerging trends, a love for experimentation, and you’re always eager to dive into new products and technologies before others do. We invest nationally across Consumer and B2B, while most of our investments are based in NYC, SF/Bay Area, and Boston. You will be based in the NYC office. About NextView.

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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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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. . Product launches . Inflection announced a direct integration with Snowflake for data warehouse-based B2B marketing automation. . million in seed funding.

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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. But most people don’t want to engage with salespeople – not if they can actually experience the product they’re buying.

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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

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. With the right product or service for the Indian market and strong execution, an “India for India” start-up can see incredible growth.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 8, 2019

Q4 was an important quarter for our firm and portfolio companies. Product Launches and Updates. 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!

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Product Updates & Partnerships. 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. Outreach and Shippo were both named 2022 Cloud 100 honorees for the second year in a row! . Happy Fall everyone!

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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. First Movers. Atari (home video game consoles). Twitter (microblogging).

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

But B2B startups need to take a different tack. We invest in internet enabled companies at NextView and our portfolio is roughly equally split between consumer and B2B businesses. Arguably revenue is the best signal of product-market fit for B2B startups.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 18, 2019

” After Facebook and Snap, the next crop of startups that have taken off look a bit different — work productivity tools like Slack and Zoom, in particular, that have consumer product sensibilities but the ability to scale to enterprise-scale deployments. Let me state upfront that the idea of B2B marketplaces is not new.

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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. Reasons for rejection analyzed + tips.

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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

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. However, now individual employees get the ball rolling by using a product. Let’s take my own portfolio as an example. The same logic holds true for most acquiring companies.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 28, 2014

Go B2B… 2C. Everyone loves a good consumer product but even amazing products fail because it’s so difficult to get people’s attention. This is a particularly effective method for consumer products as the chances are higher that some people out there may want a certain product. .

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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. DemandStar is on a great path toward executing against all four of these opportunities. .

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 20, 2020

Unfortunately, however, our love affair with startups is unfounded, especially as it relates to those who may be looking to provide, market to or target their product/service to the startup segment. What does that mean for those with a product or service they want to pitch to fledgling startups? Why We Are In Love With Startups?

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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. For consumers, there’s minimal risk if a transaction goes bad; for example, maybe you never receive your product and the marketplace reimburses your payment. Remember that not every business is the same.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

You’d think that no one could recreate a product so sophisticated and advanced as space rockets, right? With enough resources, products can always be copied. It’s tough to compete on product alone and you’re likely to see diminishing returns. Studies show that only 5% of B2B buyers are ready to buy.

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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. The classic delineations of web products for business and consumer (“enterprise” direct selling, on premise vs cloud, etc) are only getting blurrier. Author howerl.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 20, 2020

Unfortunately, however, our love affair with startups is unfounded, especially as it relates to those who may be looking to provide, market to or target their product/service to the startup segment. What does that mean for those with a product or service they want to pitch to fledgling startups? Why We Are In Love With Startups?

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

It’s been an absolute pleasure working with both of them since our initial investment and seeing the product come to life during the 0-to-1 journey. 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.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

In addition, I’ve noted a few multi-product lending firms, e.g., Kapitus and United Capital Source , which provide RBI as one of many structural options to companies seeking capital. . We have a special program if you are pre-seed and need product development. We’re also regularly following-on for existing portfolio companies.”.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

At NextView we invest across the spectrum of seed stage companies so roughly 1/3rd of the companies we invest in are pre-product, roughly 1/3rd are post-product but pre-revenue, and perhaps 1/3rd have some very early revenue. A) Pre-Product Companies. B) Post-Product Companies. Once you cross the chasm of launching v1.0,

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View from Seed

JULY 19, 2019

All early stage venture firms essentially look at some weighting of team, market, product, and traction. Customers who experience this kind of product can’t help but talk to other people about it, whether it’s friends & family in the consumer segment -or- other business partners & peers in the B2B space.

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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. 1) Market fund. 6) Negotiate deal.

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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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Where to Play

AUGUST 18, 2020

In 2000, they included tentage into their portfolio and since then they have established themself as a premium brand in marriage event management. The time to revenue is much longer due to the seasonal and B2B nature of this opportunity. The sale cycle with Govt.

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Version One Ventures

AUGUST 25, 2015

With help from the Marketplaces Facebook Group , we have curated a list of recommended B2B tools by marketplace founders. There are various services (insurance, tax, finance) targeting independent workers, but few of these are B2B/directly integrated with marketplaces. Are we missing anything?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

It affects even B2B companies because ultimately most must sell to companies who sell to consumers and if they suffer they cut back on suppliers. Check out this interesting piece on PEHub talking about how Stanford is discreetly looking to sell it’s asset portfolio ! Consumer spending is where I’m dubious.

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OnlyOnce

OCTOBER 31, 2013

Look for VC portfolios that have a lot of “like” companies (B2B, B2C, media, tech, etc.). The quality of your VC isn’t more important than the quality of your product or your team, but it’s right up there. Here are a few tips for ending up with the best long-term partner as an investor. They’ll help with your back office.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

As startup founders ask themselves this question, some of the answers might be specific to their product: i.e. we should improve our onboarding, change our freemium model, etc. We co-develop our product with our community. So early conversations (prior to building) becomes even more essential in your product strategy.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 16, 2015

For them, the key thing to measure is if the product is serving users’ needs in such a way that they will continue to use it (and ideally, find life without it hard to imagine). Josh Gebhardt, CEO, MetricStory , observes that horizontal spread across and within an organization’s functional siloes is a good metric for B2B products.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

Hologram is also an example of a B2B platform company, of which we’ve invested in many over the years here at NextView. But some of the most impactful companies in finance, work, transportation, and other major categories of everyday life are B2B businesses that are shaping these sectors both directly and indirectly.

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