V1.VC is a seed stage venture capital and private equity firm that is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado and San Francisco, California and was founded in 2015 by Brett Jackson, Bart Lorang, and Benny Joseph. The firm invests in early stage North American companies with a typical investment size of $100,000. Notable investments made by V1.VC include: Allbirds, Flip, Clora, Arta, Automox, Stream, GreatHorn, Twine, Dharma, Metamoto, Sail Internet, RBC Signals, Vitae, Kepler, Chowbotics, and MegaBots.
On November 15, 2015 V1.VC announced its first venture capital fund called the 'seed-stage fund' with a value of $5 million.
Timeline
Funded Companies
MonkeyLearn is an artificial intelligence data analysis and visualization platform.
Boundary Layer Technologies is a company building hydrofoil cargo ships.
GreatHorn is a Waltham, Massachusetts-based cybersecurity company developing protection products for cloud email systems.
Welcome Homes is a construction company founded by Alec Hartman, Moisey Uretsky, Mitch Wainer and Ben Uretsky.
Associated investment funds
People
Bart Lorang
Co-Founder & Managing Director
Benny Joseph
Co-Founder & Managing Director
Brad Feld
Advisor
Brett Jackson
Co-Founder & Managing Director
Dave Carlson
Advisor
David Cohen
Advisor
Molly Nasky
Advisor
Nick Wyman
Advisor
Steve Halstedt
Advisor
Further reading
Announcing v1.vc --a $5M seed-stage fund by crazy entrepreneurs, for crazy entrepreneurs
v1.vc
Web
Documentaries, videos and podcasts
Companies
Allbirds
Arta
Astranis
Automox
Carbon Robotics
Chowbotics
Clora
Core
Data Nerds
Dharma
Flip
Focal
Fortified Bicycle
GreatHorn
Ironcore Labs
Jumpcut
Kepler
Loft Orbital
MegaBots
MetaMoto
Monkey Learn
PathSpot
Radar
RBC Signals
Sail Internet