V1.VC

Co-founders and partners Brett Jackson and Benny Joseph run all investment decisions. Jackson has been an early-stage investor since 2006 and previously helped build AVX Aircraft. Joseph, the current CTO of Allbirds, sold his company GoodApril to Intuit and led technology and product at TurboTax. Both partners are listed on the firm's website as the primary contacts for founders.

Benny Joseph, co-founder and partner at V1.VC, serves concurrently as the CTO of Allbirds. This is not a corporate venture arm — V1.VC is a separate partnership. The dual role gives the firm a live operating perspective inside a high-growth consumer brand, but the investment mandate does not appear linked to Allbirds' corporate strategy.

V1.VC invests at the seed stage, explicitly partnering with founders from 'v1' — the earliest product version — through to a potential S-1 filing. The firm is structured for early-stage, often first-check commitments into companies still defining product-market fit.

The firm targets AI-native and deep tech companies across two broad categories. Software includes systems of record, autonomous agents, developer infrastructure, and vertical AI. Hardware and hard-tech spans aerospace, energy, robotics, and advanced manufacturing. This dual coverage mandates both technical diligence and operating expertise.

V1.VC is structured as a private equity firm — an asset manager — rather than a family office. It does not publicly disclose its limited partners or capital base. The lean, partner-run structure and dual operator roles mean it shares some characteristics with a technology-focused family office, but its regulatory classification and outward posture are that of an external fund manager.

The firm does not publicly detail its co-investment practices. The website positions V1.VC as a direct partner to founders, with no mention of syndicate participation, special purpose vehicles for club deals, or formal co-investor programs. Founders negotiate with the two named partners directly.

Before co-founding V1.VC, Brett Jackson was on the founding team and VP of Business Development at AVX Aircraft, a developer of VTOL aircraft. He was also an early employee at Crocs and later founded Generation Think Tank, a digital marketing company. He has been investing at the early stage since 2006.