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A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Our Recent Seed-Stage VC Investments

View from Seed

We’ve been remarkably consistent on this dimension as well: five of the recent 13 investments were B2C, five were B2B, and three you could categorize as B2B2C. The internet continues the disintermediation of content creation. BUSINESS-FOCUSED (B2B). Network Effect B2B. Empowering Content Creators.

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Where are the opportunities for the next venture-scale marketplace business?

Version One Ventures

We love their network effects and continue to invest in them. At Version One, we are more inclined to invest in businesses where the services are as commoditized as products so there isn’t supplier preference nor disintermediation. B2B marketplaces. The answer is YES!

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Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That's Never - AgileVC

Agile VC

They are fully fungible for hard currency through Safaricom’s network of retail partners for either the sender or recipient of an M-Pesa mobile payment. And at the end of the day it appears Isis will just be working with the existing credit card networks Visa, MC, Amex, & Discover. . Good luck to Ben.

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