View from Seed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

And even as the markets have turned, we continue to be confident that significant value creation is ahead for our portfolio companies that are still experiencing efficient hypergrowth like Attentive, Grove Collaborative, Whoop, Bobbie, Devoted Health, and others. In terms of strategy, many things remain the same.

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View from Seed

JULY 31, 2014

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. More interesting, however, is reflecting on what “rhymes” across multiple investments within our portfolio. BUSINESS-FOCUSED (B2B). Network Effect B2B.

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Seed Stage B2C Technical Review Disintermediation 272

ReadWriteStart

JULY 26, 2022

Accordingly, people were obliged to look for opportunities on online B2B chemical marketplaces. People in the chemical industries became closer even before COVID-19, B2B digital marketplaces: A New Era. — Gaurang Pancholi ; Sales and Sourcing; Rasayanconnect.com; a B2B Chemical Sourcing Marketplace. Microsoft Teams.

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View from Seed

MAY 24, 2021

You will spend the rest of your time working alongside the partners throughout the investment process – analyzing investment opportunities, assisting in market research and diligence, and post-investment portfolio support. We invest nationally across Consumer and B2B, while most of our investments are based in NYC, SF/Bay Area, and Boston.

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Technical Review Software Review Seed Stage Cofounder 120

View from Seed

APRIL 27, 2020

We can stay busy by expending time and effort supporting the existing portfolio, which is the right thing to do and a good use of time. Like most VC’s, we’ve been engrossed in helping our portfolio company founders navigate these challenging times while thinking through how we will approach this market going forward. Wait and see.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2021

AI startups in the Alexa Fund portfolio. AWS Marketplace Startup Program – the ‘app store’ for B2B startups who are interested to sell their product to AWS customers. Some of the past participants in the AWS Builder Space program in Israel (Disclosure: Novos is a Remagine Ventures portfolio company).

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Technical Review Startup Venture Capital Incubator 174

Version One Ventures

JANUARY 8, 2019

Q4 was an important quarter for our firm and portfolio companies. Karthik Sridharan, founder of Kinnek , wrote a great article on Medium on what they’ve learned from building the largest North American B2B marketplace. Follow @VersionOneVC for the latest news from us and our portfolio! Announcements.

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Portfolio Los Angeles B2B Acquisition 139

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Sorry for the humbrag, but I’m proud to see Minute Media , our Remagine Ventures portfolio company (and our only later stage investment) on this prestigious list. I’m excited for the talent that will spin out of those companies to create the next generation of B2C stars coming out of Israel.

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Software Review Israel B2C Open Source 109

Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Inflection launched “ Inflection for startups ,” free B2B marketing automation. And as always, to keep up to date with our portfolio companies, you can follow us on Twitter. Defined introduced its NFT Realtime activity view. You can watch and filter NFT mint and sale activity across 42 networks as transactions happen on-chain. .

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VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

Bitcoin Allocation – Growing the role of bitcoin in investment portfolios. AI to build enterprise software – In the future, every enterprise could have their own custom ERP, CRM or HRIS that is continually updating itself as the company itself is changing.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Software Review Generative AI 177

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The pressure to protect portfolio startups seen as potential fund returners will be profound. portfolio values on paper that will likely be marked down and not be returned. Beyond that fortunate group, the funding situation will be less secure. The later the stage, the bigger the impact.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 18, 2019

In addition to this trend, in 2019 I’ve noticed another one — a growing interest among VCs in B2B marketplaces. Let me state upfront that the idea of B2B marketplaces is not new. As a result, I believe more founders are looking at variations on b2b models, and now more of those happen to be marketplaces.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 3, 2017

We continue to invest in blockchain companies and funds such as Coinbase and Metastable Capital , which join our existing crypto portfolio ( Blockstack , Citizen Hex and Polychain Capital ). We welcomed Gencove , a B2B sequencing company, to our portfolio. Select activities from around the portfolio.

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Portfolio Stealth B2B Hosting 112

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Think of your first B2B web site as one step beyond your elevator pitch. Invest an hour a week looking at competitors’ web sites or viewing web designers’ portfolios. Advisors agree your startup is on the right track. Now is the time to get your web site up. It’s the first place a potential customer will go to check you out.

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Our Own Start-up

JULY 1, 2020

ShakeDeal is a B2B e-commerce marketplace for industrial goods and supplies, office, and housekeeping supplies including corporate gifting.

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B2B Portfolio Startup Founder 80

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

However, it is important to check the portfolio of the program and see how many companies from your industry have participated. On the other hand, if the program’s portfolio demonstrates that they worked with quite a few companies in your field, you are good to go. Contact accelerator staff. It was all hypothetical.

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Agile VC

MAY 13, 2013

While our portfolio at NextView is roughly equally weighted to consumer facing and B2B companies, it seems that for consumer companies in particular being first mover confers little benefit and the drawbacks probably outweigh whatever weak advantage might exist. This usually takes a lot of time, money, and energy.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. It sounds simple; however, very few asset managers actually do it.”

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

The Startup Magazine

JULY 2, 2019

Instead, they usually turn to B2B businesses that can help them keep their operations running. So, if you’ve been thinking about entering the corporate arena, starting your own B2B business makes a lot of sense. But what B2B business ideas are worth considering in 2019? Here are seven of them you should know about.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 17, 2022

Inflection is the only marketing automation solution purpose built for B2B product-led companies. In years past, the B2B customer experience and buying process were owned by sales. Some of today’s most successful B2B companies are product-led. If you wanted to buy new software, you talked with a salesperson.

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B2B Product Stealth Marketing 105

Version One Ventures

APRIL 5, 2017

Q1 was a busy time for our firm and portfolio companies, and here’s a brief recap of some of the various news clippings, fundraising announcements, and other happenings across the V1 community. The V1 portfolio was well represented in Techvibes’ recent Canadian Startup Awards. Portfolio companies in the news.

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Portfolio San Francisco B2B Naming 111

Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

But as anyone who is involved in B2C marketplaces knows, the dynamics governing B2C and B2B marketplaces are poles apart. But with B2B, the stakes are much higher: a bad transaction can hurt the business and reflect poorly on the purchaser. Shippo (a portfolio company) powers shipping for businesses. Standardize transactions.

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B2B B2C Portfolio Government 60

Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 18, 2012

In today’s web landscape, word of mouth drives adoption and can lead to “winner takes all” (or almost all) in both B2C and B2B markets. Let’s take my own portfolio as an example. To my knowledge, only 4 out of my 35 portfolio companies have filed for patents. The same logic holds true for most acquiring companies.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 25, 2018

It starts with having the right data in the system,” noted Kamil Rextin, who wrote about B2B attribution. For B2B marketers, demand generation tactics—no matter how well targeted—fail if they focus exclusively on how a product or service benefits the prospect alone. Data types are important. Strategies are based on bad data.

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Demand Vertical Campaign Channel 132

Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Here are some of the most memorable highlights for us in 2015: New portfolio companies. This year, we welcomed five new companies to the Version One portfolio: Headout : an on-demand marketplace for tours, activities and experiences. Portfolio Summary and Investment Focus. eSports, and virtual reality. .

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Artificial Inteligence Portfolio Seattle B2B 60

Version One Ventures

JUNE 16, 2020

We recently wrote that B2B marketplaces need to nail four things : aggregate product catalogs, automate procurement processes, increase trust/social proof, and integrate with key services in the ecosystem.

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Government Seattle Software Review Aggregator 125

YoungUpstarts

MAY 28, 2014

Go B2B… 2C. Before leaving GE Healthcare in late 2010 to start Caremerge, Asif was responsible for a portfolio of healthcare products generating $140 million annually with over 3000 customers (Hospitals and large centers) worldwide. The ability to create a new niche segment within an industry is very attractive to investors.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

They provide a hands-on transformation and revenue growth partner for B2B technology companies. Later in 2014, Mitul played an instrumental role in transforming a loss-making mobile handset business into a profitable, and growing B2B enterprise cyber security business, achieving $2.7 Transformation of Mobile Handset business.

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Founder B2B Private Equity India 127

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

9) Accelerate portfolio company value. See Beyond the Money: Best Practices of Venture Capitalists in Helping Early-Stage Companies Create Value and It’s the People: Improving Private Equity Portfolio Company Valuations by Working with Operating Executives.

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Technical Review Private Equity Management Cap Table 60

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

9) Accelerate portfolio company value. See Beyond the Money: Best Practices of Venture Capitalists in Helping Early-Stage Companies Create Value and It’s the People: Improving Private Equity Portfolio Company Valuations by Working with Operating Executives.

Technical Review 60

Technical Review Private Equity Management Cap Table 60

David Teten

AUGUST 1, 2020

With a portfolio of over 1,000 generic molecules and over 4 million prescriptions filled with Teva medications in the EU and US daily, it is more than likely that Teva has manufactured some of the medicines your family has used. Israel’s economic influence moves far beyond information technology and into healthcare.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 24, 2022

A look at the overall exits for both enterprise (B2B) and consumer (B2C) companies from 1995-2022 shows that both categories can produce power law returns, but they vary substantially: The top five enterprise companies with the largest exits account for $188B in value creation, or 12% of the $1,609B generated in the enterprise category since 1995.

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B2C Israel IPO B2B 104

VC Cafe

JUNE 24, 2024

But consumer investing has fallen out of favour for what investors intuitively feel is safer: B2B (and within that primarily enterprise SaaS). It analysed 12,000 venture backed companies that raised a series B since 2010 and categorised 7,800 of them as B2C or B2B. In fact, consumer spending accounts of two thirds of the US GDP.

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B2C Generative AI Startup Silicon Valley 104

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 20, 2020

If you do, tread lightly and—like any good investor—make the targeting of startups less than 10% of your overall marketing and sales portfolio. If you’re a business owner looking to target startups: don’t. Spend your time on businesses that have budgets and the ability to feed your own operations into growth mode. Conclusion.

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Sweat Equity Non-Compete Startup Azure 107

Agile VC

OCTOBER 27, 2011

I’m not the first person to describe this trend, and my prior background has been primarily as a consumer web guy more than in B2B companies. 3) UI/UX Matters in B2B - For decades, B2B application developers could skimp on innovating in the presentation layer. RentJuice is doing much the same in real estate software.

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Software B2B Silicon Valley Acquisition 100

View from Seed

JULY 17, 2019

Your company is likely both one step removed from many brand name B2B customers and a step removed from reporters and press that are excited to tell your story. One approach that we’ve seen work with a number of B2B businesses is to spend a disproportionate amount of effort in telling a momentum story about your company.

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San Francisco Cofounder B2B Seed Stage 243

Steve Blank

APRIL 1, 2020

B2B – cloud services, online meetings, virtual workforce management, collaboration tools. They may have seen new ideas from other companies in their portfolio so be open to additional suggestions. Are there parts of your supply chain that can be repurposed? What about parts of your manufacturing lines?

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South Korea Salary Business Model China 334