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Version One Ventures
Venture capital · Canada · North America
Version One Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that backs mission-driven founders at the earliest stages, often before a solution or category is clear. It invests across areas including AI, VR/AR, crypto, and climate/energy.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
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Or find every investor that fitsVersion One Ventures lists 68 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 10 funding rounds, 7 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 70% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (18%), Enterprise Software (13%) and Fintech (10%). 49% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Union Square Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz and A.Capital Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Version One Ventures, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Version One Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 10 companies; its own site lists 68. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 10% |
| Seed | 70% |
| Series A | 10% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 10% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 1 | 0 |
| '21 | 2 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 1 | 1 |
| '26 | 6 | 6 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 90th | 67 companies |
| Recent activity | 89th | 6 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 83th | 80% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 84th | 13% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 10th | 18% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 93th | 9 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 18% | 18% |
| Enterprise Software | 13% | 8% |
| Fintech | 10% | 12% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 8% | 15% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 7% | 6% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 6% | 7% |
| Space & Defense | 5% | 3% |
| Education | 5% | 7% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Union Square Ventures | 10 |
| Andreessen Horowitz | 7 |
| A.Capital Ventures | 5 |
| a16z Frontier | 5 |
| DCG | 4 |
| FundersClub | 4 |
| Golden Ventures | 4 |
| Western Technology Investment | 4 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers6697%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company23%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Union Square Ventures
Compare Version One Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Version One Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 23 Sept 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 27 Jul 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 7 Jul 2026 | Pre-Seed Led | |
| 23 Apr 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 7 Apr 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 18 Feb 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 4 Nov 2025 | Seed Led | |
| 30 Mar 2021 | Series C+ |
Round details for Version One Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Version One Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
68 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AngelList is a portfolio of businesses that move capital through private markets. | FintechFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company makes games and activities for teachers, students and learners | EducationGaming | Portfolio page | ||
| ApniBus books bus tickets online | Mobility & LogisticsE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| The company builds unmanned airplanes for earth observation | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Arweave provides permanent information storage through a decentralized network. | Crypto & Web3AI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Bikky provides a data platform for restaurants to understand and manage their business | Food & AgricultureAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Bolt.Earth provides electric vehicle charging stations and solutions. | E-commerce & MarketplacesSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Calvis provides on-demand security services powered by AI | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Celo is a programmable blockchain for global finance, particularly for stablecoin payments. | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company builds systems that transform fragmented industry knowledge into structured, queryable, machine-readable intelligence. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
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| Dapper Labs creates digital collectibles and infrastructure for financial transactions and ownership | FintechEnterprise Software | Mar 2021Series C+ | Page + round | |
| Defined.ai provides an AI training data platform for enterprise AI | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| DemandStar connects businesses directly with local governments to facilitate government contract bids, RFPs, and procurement | Healthcare & BiotechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Dinari provides an API and tokens for backed US stocks, ETFs, and other assets. | FintechFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Dolly provides on-demand moving help and furniture delivery services | Legal & ComplianceE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| EnergyBank is developing the next generation of energy storage technology to transform the offshore wind market. | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
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| Filebase provides object storage services | Industrial & ManufacturingIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 13 Nov 2026- Site
- versionone.vc
- Last read
- 13 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 6 Aug 2020
- Companies checked
- 68
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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