We invest at inception.
AI-native software and deep tech.
We will lead or follow with $500k - $750k.
It starts with the founder.
We look for founders who understand a problem deeply and see something others miss. We look for that combination early: a distinct insight, product craft, a relentless sense of urgency, and the ability to hire a top 1% team and scale quickly into a durable business.
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.
Companies
Jason’s prior investments
Selected companies backed at Slack Fund and Salesforce Ventures.
What are you building?
If you’re working on a problem you know deeply, we’d like to hear about it. Tell us what you’re building, who needs it, and what you see that others don’t.