Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

We’re excited to announce our investment in EnPowered , an on-bill payment platform designed to make it easier for businesses to invest in energy-efficiency projects. It’s similar to how Stripe removed friction from taking payments for many verticals. EnPowered is led by Tomas van Stee and Mike Kirkup.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

Mapping programs, CAD, circuit design, EMF simulators, speech-to-text… the documentation was disorganized and ambiguous, and the interfaces looked like they were designed for Windows 3.1. All of your complaints apply equally to just as many freeware programs and many commercial applications (ever worked on a vertical market app?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

Soviet Air Defense – PVO Strany The B-52s had to get through a massive Soviet air defense system that had been built and evolved over two decades and was designed to shoot down manned bombers. All of this designed to make the plane if not invisible to Soviet radar, at least really difficult to lock onto and shoot down.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

Here is where the money is flowing for AI Agent startups: AI-First Applications/ Vertical AI: Instead of bolting AI onto existing software, startups are building intelligence-first solutions. Companies such as Israeli startup Weavy.ai , which caters to professional designers.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 17, 2023

I believe there are a lot more coming (some currently choose to be in stealth) and that we will be seeing tools for automation enter every role in the company (coding, sales, marketing, design, etc) across many verticals. We are likely see more specialisation i.e. text for doctors/lawyers, design for commerce/gaming etc.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2009

Stanford’s research on the earth’s ionosphere would lead to meteor-burst communication systems and Over the Horizon Radar used by the NSA and CIA to detect Soviet and Chinese missile tests and ultimately to the research that made Stealth technologies possible. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. bombers. (The

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Steve Blank

JULY 23, 2009

to build sensors, stealth and smart weapons previously thought impossible or impractical, would give us a major military advantage. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. The 1970’s and ‘80’s were the endgame of the cold war, and the U.S. military realized that our advantage over the Soviet Union was in silicon, software and systems.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

PurePlus is disrupting candy with stealth nutrition. Designed to have a long-standing and meaningful role in a cultural revolution in health of people and the planet, PurePlus, won a 2019 Environmental Media Association (EMA) IMPACT Future Innovator of the Year Challenge. In a new category called Earth Functional Food?—?food

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2018

We’re at a strategic point where our core business is experiencing solid growth and we’re ready to invest in significantly more advanced breathomics sensing and analytics into our roadmap, so we can begin to focus on the specific disease verticals that our data, reach and technology can have the greatest impact for. I attended in 2007.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 29, 2019

Some of the parts of the city that qualify as such are downtown and most arterial roads that were rezoned as “vertical mixed-use” (VMU) over a decade ago, including South Lamar, East Riverside and Burnet Rd. Up to 25 percent of the units in such buildings can be used as fully licensed STRs?

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

Classic computers are designed to do anything a human explicitly tells them to do. The CPUs (Central Processing Units) that write and run these Classic Computer applications all have the same basic design (architecture). The CPUs are designed to handle a wide range of tasks quickly in a serial fashion. design, etc.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 6, 2025

Vertical AI Even with the commoditisation of foundational models, vertical AI is a huge opportunity because it addresses complex, industry-specific demands with tailored functionalities, deep integrations, and specialised workflows. Below are three examples of potential winners. Madrona’s Jon Turow has a great primer on this.

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