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Observations from my trip to India

Version One Ventures

Version One has made only one investment in the region ( Headout , a fast growing marketplace for travel experiences) and I had written a small LP cheque into an emerging fund manager ( 1947 Rise , run by the awesome Shiva Sangwan ). I had only a few connections in India before this trip.

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Announcing Version One Fund III

Version One Ventures

And we also look at companies that are creating the best product for a specific vertical – including bio/healthcare and other emerging tech. And last but not least, we thank our investors, the LPs. Many of you have been investors since the first fund and we are thankful for all the continued support and confidence.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

Jaime Hildreth, Managing Director of GP and LP Strategies at Ipreo , informed us that 97% of Ipreo’s GP clients report that data requests from LP’s have increased over the past two years. The VC Software Stack — the Untouched Vertical. still perform the repetitive functions of data collection and investor reporting manually.”.

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Seed Investing & Dark Dealflow: You Lose 100% Of The Deals You Don’t See

Hunter Walker

These are some of the verticals that our portfolio suggests we have interest and a POV. Coming out of our 4th Annual LP Meeting last week, we’re thinking in particular about #2 and how to implement some new ideas there. Maybe it helps us, maybe it helps founders, maybe it helps other investors too.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. We are also seeing technology evaluation as an increasingly important part of LP operational due diligence. the Untouched Vertical.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

According to a recent interview with Founding Partner Andrew Oved, Reformation invests in SaaS (vertical and application software) and consumer product businesses that have achieved $1M-$5M in annualized revenue, while operating capital efficiently. The fund’s network of mentors are all invested LPs, ensuring they have “skin in the game.”

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The Evolving Venture Capital Investing Model– NVCA Webinar

Pascal's View

Whether it is a firm applying its investment strategy to a new vertical, naturally taking advantage of earlier or later stage investment opportunities in its knowledge “sweet spot”, or opening an office abroad to seek international investments, there has been no shortage of ways to grow a maturing venture firm during this industry-wide evolution.