We invest at inception and aim to be the founder’s first yes.
AI-native software and deep tech.
We will lead or follow with $500k - $750k.
It starts with the founder.
We are grateful to be able to partner with founders who are on a mission to solve a problem they deeply understand and see something everyone else misses.
AI-native software
Agents that carry out work. Infrastructure that changes how software is built. AI that reimagines how an industry operates. We look for founders building products that become the way people work, collaborate, and engage with the world personally and at work.
Deep tech
Energy, aerospace, robotics, and advanced manufacturing. We are drawn to problems others consider too difficult, strange, or too early, and technologies that expand what the world can produce, power, and build.
Team
Brett Jackson
Managing Partner
Brett co-founded V1VC in 2015. His investments include Astranis, Talos, Loft Orbital, Kepler, Allbirds, Zed, Automox, Fi, Choice Digital, Honeydew, and American Supercritical, spanning software, aerospace, energy, and the systems connecting them.
He was one of the first ten employees at Crocs through its IPO and a founding team member at AVX Aircraft, where he has served on the board for more than 18 years. He brings firsthand experience building and commercializing complex technologies.
Jason Spinell
Managing Partner
Jason built and led Slack Fund, then continued leading the early-stage venture practice at Salesforce Ventures. His investments include 1Password, Loom, Glean, The Browser Company, Notion, Lattice, Fundamental, and Hightouch.
He co-founded Precog, a machine learning and data analytics company acquired by RichRelevance, and built an investing and advisory practice at Undercurrent. He brings a founder’s perspective to the products and teams reshaping how people work.
Benny Joseph
Venture Partner
Benny is a co-founder and Venture Partner at V1VC and CTO at Sur La Table. Previously founder and CEO of GoodApril, acquired by Intuit, he became TurboTax’s Director of Product and Engineering. Allbirds’ 12th employee and first engineering hire, he helped scale the company through IPO as CTO. He holds a Georgia Tech M.S. in Computer Science focused on ML/AI, a Chicago Booth MBA, and a Michigan B.S. in Computer Engineering.
Molly Nasky
Chief Financial Officer
Molly is V1VC’s Chief Financial Officer and founder of Singletrack Fund Services. She previously served as CFO of Techstars and Vista Ventures, with experience at Aduro Advisors. Her career spans venture capital, startup finance, and public accounting. She brings a practical understanding of fund operations, from financial reporting and cash planning to coordinating audit and tax work and keeping limited partners informed.
Companies
Jason’s prior investments
Selected companies backed at Slack Fund and Salesforce Ventures.
