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
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 […]
Cybersecurity Startup Kobalt Raises $1 Million Round
Cybersecurity startup Kobalt has raised a CAD $1 million round led by its co-founders, Pankaj Agarwal and Michael Argast, and including Version One Ventures. Version One’s Boris Wertz is both a co-founder and an investor in Kobalt. The Vancouver-based company aims to bring the monitoring capabilities of enterprise-class security teams to smaller organizations. The company […]