Vancouver clean energy startup Moment Energy has raised a $3.5 million seed round of funding led by Vancouver’s Version One Ventures with major involvement from Fika Ventures, Garage Capital and MCJ Collective. Co-founded by four young and diverse entrepreneurs from British Columbia, Moment Energy creates sustainable energy storage systems by repurposing retired electric vehicle batteries. […]
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CULT Food Science Announces $1 million CULT PRIZE To Accelerate the Future of Food
Vancouver’s CULT Food Science has officially launched the CULT PRIZE with the goal of accelerating the future of food worldwide. CULT Food Science is an investment platform with an exclusive focus on clean, lab-grown food that is advancing the development of novel technologies to provide a sustainable, environmental, and ethical solution to the global factory […]
TiE Vancouver Hosts Fireside Chat With Version One’s Boris Wertz
TiE Vancouver is hosting a fireside chat with entrepreneur turned venture Capitalist Boris Wertz on November 24th. In conversation with Maninder Dhaliwal, chair of TiE Vancouver Angels, Wertz will be speaking about building startups and fundraising. Wertz is founding partner of Version One Ventures and one of the top early-stage tech investors in North America. […]
Dapper Labs Raises $250 Million, Signs LaLiga, And Is Now Valued At $7.6 Billion
Vancouver’s Dapper Labs, the company behind NBA Top Shot and the Flow blockchain, has raised USD $250 million in new funding. Led by Coatue, the new round brings together existing investors a16z, Google Ventures and Vancouver’s own Version One Ventures with new investors including BOND and GIC. Dapper Labs spun out of startup studio Axoim […]
RBC Launches RBCx to Support Visionary Tech Entrepreneurs
Royal Bank of Canada has announced the launch of RBCx, a full-service platform to accelerate the entrepreneurial journey at every stage of growth – providing access to capital solutions, innovative products and services, and operational expertise to help technology companies scale. RBCx supports entrepreneurs – from startup to scale up – who are disrupting business models, […]
Victoria’s Defined Raises $2.5 Million Round From Version One & Tiny Capital
Victoria’s Defined has closed a $2.5 million seed round from a group of investors that includes B.C.’s Version One Ventures, Tiny Capital, and angel Rasool Rayani. Also participating in the round were Compound, Capital6 Eagle, Kamunting Street Capital, Mark Cuban, Inflection Ventures, Portico Ventures, and Balaji Srinivasan. Defined is a data platform for the open […]
Dapper Labs Raises USD $305 Million Round That Includes NBA Legend Michael Jordan
Rumors confirmed. Vancouver’s Dapper Labs has raised USD $305 million in an enormous financing round led by the tech-focused investment firm Coatue that values the three-year-old startup at USD $2.6 billion. “It’s just more fuel in the tank,” Roham Gharegozlou, Dapper Labs’ CEO and founder, told Forbes, characterizing the funding as “a big bet on […]
Version One Ventures Updates Their Guide To Marketplaces
Vancouver’s Version One Ventures has invested in and worked with close to 100 startups over the past ten years. Their portfolio has included Vancouver’s Clio, Dapper Labs, Indochino, and Unbounce. Sharing their knowledge with the masses is nothing new for Version One. Late last year they published their 3rd ebook, the Startup Handbook, which followed […]
Version One Ventures Launches $25 Million Opportunity Fund
Vancouver’s Version One Ventures has launched their first opportunity fund with $25 million in commitments. An opportunity fund is a separate pool of capital that allows a VC to continue to invest in its most promising portfolio companies once the core funds have exhausted their follow-on reserves. This puts the VC firm and its investors […]
Version One Ventures Shares Guide for Startups
Vancouver’s Version One Ventures has invested in and worked with close to 100 startups over the past ten years. Their portfolio includes Vancouver’s Clio, Dapper, Indochino, and Unbounce. Founding Partner Boris Wertz and General Partner Angela Tran have seen teams, ideas, and practices that work spectacularly well. And, they’ve seen others that didn’t work out […]