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Q2 2019 Summary: Portfolio News and Activities

Version One Ventures

We welcomed Dolly (same -day retail delivery service) to our portfolio, after participating in a $7.5m Series A round , alongside Unlock Ventures Partners and Maveron. We also invested in Guesser whose mission is to make prediction markets more accessible to mainstream users. Welcome to the V1 family!

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Growth Funds Shed Rose-tinted glasses

Lightspeed Venture Partners

in India and Southeast Asia since 2008, with 11 unicorns in its portfolio. Partner Dev Khare shares optimism for the Indian market due to technological advancements. Lightspeed India is a VC fund investing $1.5B

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How to raise money for your startup from VCs and investors in Asia

The Next Web

The company is one of the largest VC–backed startups in Southeast Asia, having raised over $60M in funding. We’ve asked him to give us some insight into starting, building, and funding a company across Asia. Asia has far fewer VC firms and institutional investors, each of which invests a far smaller amount of capital.

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Expanding To Asia: 5 Tips For Tackling the World’s Largest Market

YoungUpstarts

At one time, expanding into Asia was considered a luxury — a feat attainable only by the largest and most well-heeled companies in the country. But, in today’s global market, the booming economy, massive population, mobile adoption and growing middle make Asia an attractive—and fully attainable—prospect for virtually any young upstart.

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Aspen Institute Maghreb Investor Delegation, next week in NY and CA

David Teten

Partners for a New Beginning (PNB), a public-private partnership housed at the Aspen Institute, is organizing a Venture Capital, Private Equity and Angel Investor Delegation from the Maghreb. In addition, as part of the program, I’ll be making my first public presentation of our research study on VC portfolio operations value creation.

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Four Reasons Why Retailers Should Consider International Trade

YoungUpstarts

One way to expand your customer portfolio is to access new customers around the world. In Asia Pacific, research shows that almost 60 percent of young entrepreneurs want an international customer base in the next five years, up from 36 percent who have an international customer base now. Entering a new market is no different.

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Q2 2020 Quarterly Update

Version One Ventures

And while these past three months have been far from typical, there was a lot of activity across our portfolio. The funding will be used for product development and to continue their geographic expansion (more in Europe and eventually Asia). Lolli closed an oversubscribed $3 million Seed II round and continues to add partners weekly.