Version One Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Vancouver, United States

Total investments

163

Average round size

16M

Portfolio companies

89

Rounds per year

9.59

Lead investments

15

Follow on index

0.45

Exits

26

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyB2BConsumerMobileSaaSMarketplaceBlockchain

Summary

In 2012 was created Version One Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Vancouver. The venture was found in North America in Canada.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the Version One Ventures, startups are often financed by iNovia Capital, Union Square Ventures, Real Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are iNovia Capital, Union Square Ventures, Real Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Union Square Ventures, FLOODGATE, iNovia Capital.

Comparing to the other companies, this Version One Ventures performs on 11 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2017. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 8 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2014. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The average startup value when the investment from Version One Ventures is 10-50 millions dollars.

The fund was created by Boris Wertz, Kenneth Chen. We also calculated 2 valuable employees in our database.

The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Outreach, Top Hat, VarageSale. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Consumer, Software. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistAI/Big DataB2B/EnterpriseCloud/InfrastructureConsumer/Retail Show 6 more
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
CanadaUnited States
Check size
500K — 2M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 100000000
Fund raised date
2021-06-08

Analytics

Total investments
163
Lead investments
15
Exits
26
Rounds per year
9.59
Follow on index
0.45
Investments by industry
  • Software (49)
  • E-Commerce (28)
  • Mobile (28)
  • Internet (27)
  • SaaS (24)
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Investments by region
  • Canada (60)
  • United States (84)
  • United Kingdom (7)
  • Cayman Islands (2)
  • Serbia (2)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
7
Number of Decacorns
7
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
358M
Group Appearance index
0.90
Avg. company exit year
6
Avg. multiplicator
1.46
Strategy success index
0.70

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Latest deals

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Bedrock Materials 16 May 2024 Seed 9M United States, California, Palo Alto
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