Happy Thursday, everyone! (Web visitors, here’s an easier-to-read version of this morning’s email here. You might also just go ahead and sign-up.) —– Top News in the A.M. Apple is more than doubling its stores in China, CEO Tim Cook announced this morning. —– Boris Wertz Raises a New, Much Bigger, Fund Version One Ventures, the […]
Boris Wertz
Boris Wertz Raises a New, Much Bigger Fund
Version One Ventures, the Vancouver-based fund of entrepreneur-turned-investor Boris Wertz, is taking the wraps off a $35 million early-stage fund today. That’s nearly twice the size of Wertz’s $20 million debut fund, closed in early 2012. Northleaf Venture Catalyst Fund and BDC Capital are the new fund’s anchor investors. As you might imagine, the extra […]
StrictlyVC: May 9, 2014
Good Friday morning, everyone. Hope you enjoy your weekend, and to all the moms out there, we wish you a very happy Mother’s Day! —– Top News in the A.M. Here comes the Netflix price hike. —– The Itinerant Investor: Boris Wertz Boris Wertz made headlines last week when he joined Andreessen Horowitz as a board […]
The Itinerant Investor: Boris Wertz
Boris Wertz made headlines last week when he joined Andreessen Horowitz as a board partner, a role the powerhouse venture firm has extended to half a dozen outside investors who sit on select boards on its behalf and share some of their deal flow. (Others of the firm’s board partners include former Microsoft executive Steven […]