The startup that helps other startups - packaging Silicon Valley's network, tools and capital into something a founder anywhere can pick up and use.
THE WORDMARK. Two words, one idea: that the valley isn't a place you move to - it's a network you join. The logo that replaced GSVlabs in December 2020.
She has never set foot in California. She does not know a single venture capitalist. But she has a Passport - the OneValley kind - and on the other side of it sits a network that used to require a plane ticket, a referral, and a great deal of luck: software discounts, mentors, investors, and other founders building in the dark right alongside her. The thing Silicon Valley always sold as a location, OneValley quietly turned into a login.
That is the trick at the center of this company. For decades, "Silicon Valley" meant proximity - the right coffee shop, the warm introduction, the serendipity of being in the room. OneValley's wager is that all of that can be unbundled, digitized, and handed to anyone with ambition and a connection. Not a metaphor. A product.
The company did not start with this idea fully formed. It started, like a lot of good ideas, by being something else first.
OneValley was born as GSVlabs - a startup accelerator and co-working space with floors in Silicon Valley and Boston, operating under the legal name NestGSV (the GSV stands for Global Silicon Valley). It did what accelerators do: gave founders desks, mentors, and a community you had to show up in person to enjoy.
Then, in 2019, it launched Passport - an online layer meant to extend the reach of those physical rooms. The timing was, in retrospect, almost suspiciously good. When 2020 forced the world to pivot online, a platform built to take Silicon Valley remote was exactly the right object in exactly the right moment. The community 10X'd. In December 2020, the company shed the GSVlabs name and became OneValley.
An accelerator and co-working space rooted in Silicon Valley and Boston.
An online platform to extend resources and connections beyond the building.
After 10X growth and 200,000+ new founders, GSVlabs becomes OneValley.
A venture vehicle, launched with HMC Capital, to invest in companies inside its own network.
Sign up free and tap discounts on the business tools you already pay for, plus a network of mentors, investors and fellow founders. The Rolodex, minus the relocation.
A white-label version of Passport that universities, accelerators, enterprises and NGOs deploy to run their own startup communities - including University College London and the University of North Texas.
A pre-seed and seed fund that invests in standout startups already living inside the network - so the diligence starts long before the pitch.
Physical coworking and innovation spaces carrying forward the original GSVlabs DNA - because some serendipity still wants a room.
OneValley has raised roughly $7M of disclosed funding across its NestGSV era, with HMC Capital - a multi-strategy asset manager with about $15B under management and advisory - as an early and recurring backer. In 2021, that relationship matured into the $25M OneValley Fund, capital the company now deploys back into its own ecosystem.
Bars indexed for readability, not to a single linear scale. Figures from public sources.
Chief Executive Officer - the voice of the pivot from accelerator to platform, and a steady advocate for democratizing entrepreneurship.
Managing Director, OneValley Ventures - sources the most promising companies from across the ecosystem into the Fund.
Global multi-strategy asset manager and early investor; co-launched the OneValley Fund. Led by co-founder & CEO Felipe Held.
See the platform in motion and hear the team explain the mission in their own words.
She still hasn't been to California. She still doesn't need to. The introduction she would once have waited months for is now a message inside a community of founders building in 140 countries. The tools that would have drained her runway come discounted. And if her company is good enough, the very platform she joined for free might write her first check.
That is what OneValley actually built: not another accelerator, but the machinery to make Silicon Valley a thing you log into rather than a place you leave home for. A startup that helps other startups, selling the picks and shovels of ambition to anyone willing to dig. The valley used to have a zip code. Now it has a sign-up page.