Venture Capital

Version One Ventures

Version One Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in July 2012 by Boris Wertz and headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with a partner presence in San Francisco. Run by founding partner Boris Wertz and general partner Angela Tran, the firm backs mission-driven founders who are early in new areas, writing pre-seed and seed checks where it typically leads or co-leads rounds in the roughly $500K-$1.5M range. Version One invests across marketplaces, SaaS, fintech and crypto, AI and automation, robotics and physical AI, deep tech, biology and health, and emerging-market ecosystems including India and Africa. Over more than a decade the firm has grown into a franchise of six funds and backed 100+ companies, with an early-stage track record that includes Coinbase (2021 NASDAQ direct listing), Uniswap, Dapper Labs, Ada, Jobber, Top Hat, and Shippo. In June 2026 the firm closed Version One Fund V ($78M) alongside Opportunities Fund III ($30M) for $108M in combined new capital.

83 portfolio companies 83 publish APIs here 10 properties
Venture CapitalPre-SeedSeedEarly StageMarketplaceFintechCryptoArtificial IntelligenceRoboticsDeep TechHealthCanadaNorth America
Portfolio Strength across 31 profiled portfolio companies on the network
6 top-rated API companies 2 exemplar · 4 strong
13 agent-ready companies 2 agent-native · 11 agent-ready
Average quality of the book:
Composite thin 41.4
Agent-Readiness agent-aware 26.6

Firms are ranked by cumulative portfolio strength — how many highly-rated API companies they've backed, weighted by tier across composite quality and agent-readiness. The averages below are a secondary read on the typical company in the book.

Version One Ventures has 83 portfolio companies tracked on the APIs.io network, of which 31 (37%) publish APIs indexed here. The remaining 52 are tracked as profiles without a published API on the network.

Its highest-rated API providers on the network are Ada, Outreach, Unbounce, Inflection.io, Jobber.

Portfolio on the Network

Portfolio companies that publish APIs indexed on APIs.io, grouped by their API Evangelist rating. Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Exemplar 2 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Ada4 APIs83.1Outreach2 APIs73.2
Strong 4 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Unbounce1 API65.4Inflection.io1 API62.2Jobber1 API56.5Gencove1 API56.1
Developing 15 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Clio1 API54.2Shippo1 API51.3Defined1 API50.9Jam1 API48.3Dinari1 API47.0Mattermark2 APIs47.0Coinbase5 APIs46.6Uniswap2 APIs46.0AngelList1 API44.7Arweave1 API44.7Loon Finance1 API44.7Nexus Mutual1 API43.6Replay1 API42.4Indiegogo1 API41.2Filebase4 APIs40.4
Thin 7 Limited public surface area
Julep1 API38.4SuperRare1 API37.7Tenderly6 APIs32.9Celo1 API31.4Opyn3 APIs30.9Tindie1 API28.7Groupthink1 API28.0
Emerging 3 Early or largely undocumented
Bikky1 API20.9Headout1 API19.0Zenput1 API18.6

Properties

Portfolio

Where the firm publishes its investments

Portfolio
Portfolio
 Portfolio
Portfolio
 InvestmentThesis
InvestmentThesis

Team

Partners and investing staff

Team
Team
 Team
Team

Content

Blog, podcast, newsletter, and research

Blog
Blog

Firm

The firm itself

Website
Website
 Crunchbase
Crunchbase
 LinkedIn
LinkedIn

Other

Everything else declared in apis.yml

Pitch
Pitch

Cohort brief

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The 62 portfolio companies with APIs in the catalog, backed by Version One Ventures, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.

Providers
62
of 83 on the roster
Mean Kin Score
27.1
+2.7 vs catalog 24.4
Mean Agent Readiness
14.9
+2.2 vs catalog 12.7
Spread
1.5–83.1
median 20 · σ 20.5
How the 62 split by band
Exemplar 2Strong 4Developing 15Thin 7Emerging 12Minimal 22
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Access Clarity 31.7 27.2 +4.5 62
Developer Ergonomics 27.9 23.8 +4.1 62
Contract Quality 23 20.4 +2.6 62
Operational Transparency 15.9 14.4 +1.5 62
Discoverability 62.6 61.5 +1.1 62
Contract Governance 7.6 6.6 +1 62

A facet is averaged over the members that carry it, not over the whole cohort — the “Scored” column is that count. Averaging an absent facet as zero would score our own coverage gaps as the providers’ posture.

What this cohort publishes
ArtifactThis cohortCatalogDifference
MCP server (any) 13% 11% +2
MCP server (first-party) 25% 13% +12
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 9% 12% -3
Security 93% 96% -3
Arazzo workflows 1% 2% -1
Governance rules 13% 13% 0

mcp_pct counts any mcp/ artifact including ones API Evangelist derived from the provider OpenAPI; mcp_first_party_pct counts only servers the provider publishes. Prefer the latter.

Top by Kin Score
  1. 1 Ada 83.1
  2. 2 Outreach 73.2
  3. 3 Unbounce 65.4
  4. 4 Inflection.io 62.2
  5. 5 Jobber 56.5
  6. 6 Gencove 56.1
  7. 7 Clio 54.2
  8. 8 Shippo 51.3
  9. 9 Defined 50.9
  10. 10 Jam 48.3
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 Unbounce 65.6
  2. 2 Outreach 54.4
  3. 3 Inflection.io 49.3
  4. 4 Ada 47.3
  5. 5 Jam 45.5
  6. 6 Jobber 45.3
  7. 7 Groupthink 31.5
  8. 8 Coinbase 31.2
  9. 9 Replay 30.2
  10. 10 Indiegogo 30.2
This roster declares 83 members; 81 resolve to a provider in the catalog and 62 carry a score (77%). The figures above describe the scored members only.Generated from the catalog build of 22 September 2026, across 27674 providers, using the same computation served by the APIs.io cohort API. Briefs are published for rosters of 5 or more scored providers; below that a distribution is not meaningful.

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: version-one-ventures
name: Version One Ventures
description: >-
  Version One Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in July 2012 by Boris Wertz and
  headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with a partner presence in San Francisco. Run by
  founding partner Boris Wertz and general partner Angela Tran, the firm backs mission-driven founders who
  are early in new areas, writing pre-seed and seed checks where it typically leads or co-leads rounds in
  the roughly $500K-$1.5M range. Version One invests across marketplaces, SaaS, fintech and crypto, AI and
  automation, robotics and physical AI, deep tech, biology and health, and emerging-market ecosystems
  including India and Africa. Over more than a decade the firm has grown into a franchise of six funds and
  backed 100+ companies, with an early-stage track record that includes Coinbase (2021 NASDAQ direct
  listing), Uniswap, Dapper Labs, Ada, Jobber, Top Hat, and Shippo. In June 2026 the firm closed Version
  One Fund V ($78M) alongside Opportunities Fund III ($30M) for $108M in combined new capital.
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
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  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://versionone.vc/favicon.ico
x-type: venture-capital
x-category: Venture Capital
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-17'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
tags:
  - Venture Capital
  - Pre-Seed
  - Seed
  - Early Stage
  - Marketplace
  - Fintech
  - Crypto
  - Artificial Intelligence
  - Robotics
  - Deep Tech
  - Health
  - Canada
  - North America
tags_raw:
  - Venture Capital
  - Pre-Seed
  - Seed
  - Early Stage
  - Marketplaces
  - Fintech
  - Crypto
  - Artificial Intelligence
  - Robotics
  - Deep Tech
  - Health
  - Canada
  - North America
apis: []
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://versionone.vc/
  - type: Portfolio
    url: https://versionone.vc/portfolio/
  - type: Portfolio
    url: portfolio/version-one-ventures-portfolio.yml
  - type: Team
    url: https://versionone.vc/people/
  - type: Team
    url: team/version-one-ventures-team.yml
  - type: InvestmentThesis
    url: https://versionone.vc/core-beliefs/
  - type: Blog
    url: https://versionone.vc/blog/
  - type: Pitch
    url: https://versionone.vc/startup-handbook/
  - type: Crunchbase
    url: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/version-one-ventures
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/version-one-ventures
  - type: Features
    data:
      - "Stage: Pre-seed, Seed (early stage)"
      - "Typical check: leads or co-leads ~$500K-$1.5M"
      - "Sectors: marketplaces, SaaS, fintech/crypto, AI, robotics/physical AI, deep tech, biology/health"
      - "Geography: North America, India, Africa (global)"
      - "AUM: franchise of six funds, ~$250M+ historically"
      - "Latest funds: Fund V $78M + Opportunities Fund III $30M ($108M combined, closed June 2026)"
      - "Portfolio: 100+ companies over the firm's history"
      - "Founded: July 2012"
      - "HQ: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (with San Francisco presence)"
    sources:
      - https://versionone.vc/
      - https://versionone.vc/people/
      - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Version_One_Ventures
      - https://fundmomentum.vc/blog/version-one-ventures-fund-v-108m-boris-wertz-angela-tran-2026
    updated: '2026-07-17'
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: info@apievangelist.com
    url: https://apievangelist.com
  - FN: APIs.json
    url: http://apisjson.org
  - FN: Version One Ventures
    url: https://versionone.vc/

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