We back bold founders building technology that will transform the world
We support founders building—and defining—new markets and categories. They’re committed to a vision of how the world should be, and they obsess about making it so.
To others, they’re the crazy, the wild, or the “out there.” To us, they represent the future.
And we’re proud to stand with them at the earliest stages.
Our founders build generational tech companies
We invest in mission-driven founders with bold, insane, off-the-wall ideas—the ones meant to build companies with generational potential.
We commit to support these founders from Day 1, often before their solution is obvious, or their category is clear.
Built for the digitally transforming enterprise, Ada’s AI-powered customer service automation platform helps companies effortlessly resolve their customer inquiries in any language or channel. Since 2016, Ada has powered more than 4 billion automated customer interactions for companies like Meta, Verizon, AirAsia, Yeti, and Square.
Mike Murchison and David Hariri
Coinbase is a digital currency wallet and platform where merchants and consumers can transact with new digital currencies. Their vision: to bring more innovation, efficiency, and equality of opportunity to the world by building an open financial system. The first step on that journey is making digital currency accessible and approachable for everyone.
Brian Armstrong and Fred Ehrsam
Headout is home to the world’s best real-life experiences—from expert-led tours to incredible landmarks, activities, and events. Their mission is to inspire people to get up and close with the world we live in by building the most seamless and affordable booking platform. Headout has served more than 20 million guests from 196 countries, across 81 destinations, with 9 global offices.
Suren Sultania, Vikream Jit Singh and Varun Khona
Jobber’s home & commercial service software is the best way to organize your service business. They offer a cloud-based software platform that helps small home service businesses manage their operations, including scheduling, invoicing, and customer interactions. They support work that’s essential for our homes, businesses, and communities.
Sam Pillar and Forrest Zeisler
Shippo lowers the barriers to shipping for businesses around the world. Through Shippo, e-commerce businesses, marketplaces, and platforms can connect to multiple shipping carriers around the world from a singular API and dashboard. Businesses can get shipping rates, print labels, automate international documents, track shipments, and facilitate returns. We think of Shippo as the building blocks of shipping.
Laura Behrens Wu and Simon Kreuz
Uniswap is an automated Ethereum-based crypto exchange with its own governance token, UNI. It’s the largest decentralized trading and automated marketing making protocol on Ethereum, allowing users users anywhere in the world to trade crypto without an intermediary. UNI, the governance token that allows users to vote on key protocol changes, is the fourth largest cryptocurrency by market cap on Coinbase as of April 2024 — with a total value of more than $79 billion.
Hayden Adams
Recent Investments
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News
Happy New Year! The final quarter of 2025 brought meaningful momentum across the V1 portfolio, with founders closing Q4 strong and building toward an even bigger 2026. We’re excited to carry that progress into the months ahead. Before we fully shift our focus to what’s next, here’s a look back at a few highlights and […]
Version One
After more than 13 years of building Version One, 2025 was easily one of our wildest years—in the best possible way. We made nine new investments (our most in one year ever), spanning six different categories. We also distributed over $25M back to LPs across Funds II and III. And on top of all that, […]
News, Portfolio, Version One
We’re excited to share that Arctus Aerospace has raised a $2.6M pre-seed round, led by Version One Ventures alongside South Park Commons, gradCapital, and a group of angels including Balaji Srinivasan and Srinivas Narayan of OpenAI. Arctus is building something rare: a fundamentally new category of high-altitude, long-endurance autonomous aircraft for real-time Earth observation. Their […]
