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Location: United States, New York
Employees: 11-50
Founded date: 2003
Investment Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Seed; Series A; Series B; Series C
Portfolio 182
| Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
| 21.09.2023 | Daybreak H... | daybreakhealth.com | $14.8M | United Sta... |
| 19.05.2023 | Odyssey En... | odysseyenergysolutions.com | $20.34M | United Sta... |
| 06.05.2023 | Ostrom | ostrom.de | $13.03M | Germany, B... |
| 06.05.2023 | Blackbird | blackbird.xyz | $35M | United Sta... |
| 28.04.2023 | CarbonChai... | carbonchain.com | $10M | United Kin... |
| 21.04.2023 | Noya | noya.co | $11M | - |
| 08.02.2023 | Zeitview | zeitview.com | $115M | United Sta... |
| 05.02.2023 | Hume AI | hume.ai | $62.7M | United Sta... |
| 27.01.2023 | JourneyCli... | journeyclinical.com | $9M | United Sta... |
| 21.01.2023 | MOMBAK | mombak.com | - | Brazil, Sã... |
| 31.10.2022 | Anthro | anthroenergy.com | $27.2M | United Sta... |
| 31.10.2022 | Lithos Car... | lithoscarbon.com | $6.3M | United Sta... |
| 05.10.2022 | Molten Ind... | moltenindustries.com | $25M | United Sta... |
| 27.09.2022 | Zanskar | zanskar.com | $30M | - |
| 01.08.2022 | Stadium Li... | stadiumverse.com | $10M | Canada, On... |
| 28.07.2022 | Stadium Li... | stadiumliveapp.com | $10M | - |
| 19.07.2022 | XFuel | xfuel.com | - | Spain, Bal... |
| 10.05.2022 | Dapper Lab... | dapperlabs.com | $681M | Canada, Br... |
| 27.04.2022 | Shift EV | shift-ev.com | - | - |
| 07.04.2022 | Brilliant ... | brilliantplanet.com | - | United Kin... |
| 29.03.2022 | David Ener... | davidenergy.com | $64M | United Sta... |
| 23.03.2022 | Alife | alifehealth.com | $31.5M | United Sta... |
| 10.03.2022 | Radiant | radiantnuclear.com | $100M | United Sta... |
| 08.03.2022 | WalletConn... | walletconnect.com | $23.5M | Switzerlan... |
| 23.02.2022 | FloodMapp | floodmapp.com | $8.4M | Australia,... |
| 23.02.2022 | Parallel M... | parallelmarkets.com | $7M | United Sta... |
| 23.02.2022 | Mundi | mundi.io | $15M | United Sta... |
| 23.02.2022 | Ceramic | ceramic.network | $30M | - |
| 23.02.2022 | Polygon - ... | polygon.technology | $900.1M | India, Kar... |
| 23.02.2022 | m3ter | m3ter.com | $31.5M | - |
| 03.11.2021 | Sofar Ocea... | sofarocean.com | $39M | United Sta... |
| 21.10.2021 | Teamshares | teamshares.com | $245M | United Sta... |
| 28.09.2021 | Fiveable | fiveable.me | $12.43M | United Sta... |
| 14.09.2021 | TRANSMUTEX | transmutex.com | $33.07M | Switzerlan... |
| 14.09.2021 | Bright Mom... | cryptovenetians.com | - | - |
| 14.09.2021 | Karat Fina... | trykarat.com | $96M | United Sta... |
| 14.09.2021 | Bolt | revos.in | $4M | - |
| 28.08.2021 | Mindset | getmindset.com | $8.7M | - |
| 17.08.2021 | Dune Analy... | dune.xyz | $77.42M | - |
| 17.08.2021 | Remora | remoracarbon.com | $5.5M | United Sta... |
| 17.08.2021 | Viam, Inc. | viam.com | $105M | United Sta... |
| 17.08.2021 | Altbank | altbank.com.br | - | Brazil |
| 04.06.2021 | Zksync | zksync.io | - | Netherland... |
| 27.05.2021 | Addi | addi.com | $417.5M | Colombia, ... |
| 16.04.2021 | soona | soona.co | $49.9M | United Sta... |
| 24.02.2021 | Agentero | agentero.com | $13.5M | United Sta... |
| 10.02.2021 | SmartHop | smarthop.co | $16.5M | United Sta... |
| 22.01.2021 | Caretaker | caretaker.com | - | United Sta... |
| 09.01.2021 | SilviaTerr... | silviaterra.com | $4.4M | United Sta... |
| 09.01.2021 | Blockstack | blockstack.org | $56M | United Sta... |
| 27.10.2020 | Jam.dev | jam.dev | $3.5M | France, Il... |
| 21.10.2020 | Possible F... | possiblefinance.com | $75.8M | United Sta... |
| 20.10.2020 | Sora Schoo... | soraschools.com | $2.7M | United Sta... |
| 05.10.2020 | PROPS by Y... | propsproject.com | $30M | - |
| 12.09.2020 | Headgum | headgum.com | - | United Sta... |
| 12.09.2020 | Stash | stash.com | $217.6M | United Sta... |
| 10.09.2020 | Bolster | bolster.com | $11M | United Sta... |
| 03.06.2020 | Numerai | numer.ai | $25.5M | United Sta... |
| 17.01.2020 | Leap | leap.energy | $20.2M | United Sta... |
| 07.01.2020 | Juro | juro.com | $30.25M | United Kin... |
| 15.11.2018 | Dia &a... | dia.com | $70M | United Sta... |
| 31.05.2018 | Modern Fer... | modernfertility.com | $22M | United Sta... |
| 20.03.2018 | CryptoKitt... | cryptokitties.co | $23M | - |
| 15.02.2018 | Algorand | algorand.com | $126M | United Sta... |
| 15.02.2018 | DroneBase | dronebase.com | $95M | United Sta... |
| 06.02.2018 | Quizlet | quizlet.com | $62M | United Sta... |
| 12.04.2017 | Upgrade, I... | upgrade.com | $547M | United Sta... |
| 15.02.2017 | Top Hat | tophat.com | $226.5M | Australia,... |
| 17.11.2016 | CoverWalle... | coverwallet.com | $28.3M | United Sta... |
| 03.11.2016 | Nurx | nurx.co | $5.3M | - |
| 06.10.2016 | Code Clima... | codeclimate.com | $63M | United Sta... |
| 09.09.2016 | Shippo | goshippo.com | $154M | United Sta... |
| 08.08.2016 | Koko | itskoko.com | $2.5M | - |
| 02.03.2016 | Jobbatical | jobbatical.com | $18.76M | Estonia, T... |
| 09.10.2015 | Clue | helloclue.com | $56.21M | Germany, B... |
| 16.06.2015 | La Ruche Q... | laruchequiditoui.fr | $9M | France, Il... |
| 03.02.2015 | Casetext | casetext.com | $19M | United Sta... |
| 21.11.2014 | Assembly, ... | assembly.com | $2.9M | United Sta... |
| 06.08.2014 | Figure 1 | figure1.com | $34M | Canada, On... |
| 08.07.2014 | Amino Apps | aminoapps.com | $72.35M | United Sta... |
| 28.02.2014 | Skillshare | skillshare.com | $116.75M | United Sta... |
| 20.06.2013 | Firebase | firebase.com | $6.7M | United Sta... |
| 07.05.2013 | CircleUp | circleup.com | $400M | United Sta... |
| 07.05.2013 | Coinbase W... | coinbase.com | $555.17M | United Sta... |
| 30.04.2013 | Science Ex... | scienceexchange.com | $78.8M | - |
| 11.02.2013 | Simulmedia | simulmedia.com | $73M | United Sta... |
| 01.04.2012 | Funding Ci... | fundingcircle.com | $1.17B | United Kin... |
| 07.02.2012 | Dwolla | dwolla.com | $59.1M | United Sta... |
| 07.12.2011 | twilio | twilio.com | $482.7M | United Sta... |
| 03.08.2011 | LendingClu... | lendingclub.com | $329.76M | - |
| 13.06.2011 | Canvas | canv.as | $3M | - |
| 18.11.2010 | Zemanta | zemanta.com | $5M | Slovenia, ... |
| 29.06.2010 | Foursquare | foursquare.com | $224M | United Sta... |
| 04.09.2009 | Foursquare | enterprise.foursquare.com | $204.35M | United Sta... |
| 07.04.2008 | Covestor | covestor.com | $23.9M | - |
| - | RealtyShar... | realtyshares.com | $359.9M | United Sta... |
| - | GetGlue | getglue.com | $12M | - |
| - | Heyride | side.cr | $35.8M | - |
| - | Wattpad | wattpad.com | - | Australia,... |
| - | FeedBurner | feedburner.com | $8M | - |
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| Date | First Name | Last Name | Title | Location | |||
| - | Jessica | Schaeffer | Venture Pa... | linkedin.c... | - | i**o@usv.c... | - |
| - | Brad | Burnham | Managing P... | linkedin.c... | - | B**d@usv.c... | - |
| - | Andy | Weissman | Managing P... | linkedin.c... | twitter.co... | a**y@usv.c... | Madagascar... |
| - | Fred | Wilson | Partner | linkedin.c... | - | f**d@usv.c... | - |
| - | Albert | Wenger | Managing P... | linkedin.c... | - | a****t@usv... | - |
| - | Anne | Mui | Executive ... | linkedin.c... | - | a**e@usv.c... | - |
| - | Lauren | Young | Network | linkedin.c... | - | l****n@usv... | - |
| - | Jared | Hecht | - | twitter.co... | - | - | |
| - | Nick | Grossman | General Pa... | linkedin.c... | - | n**k@usv.c... | - |
| - | Grace | Carney | - | twitter.co... | - | United Sta... |
News 501
| Date | Title | Description |
| 15.10.2023 | Open Source, the AI stack, and need for permissionless experimentation | An obvious observation: open-source software has been an integral part of software development for decades. This collaborative approach enables developers across the world to work together on projects in a decentralized manner. Making sourc... |
| 13.10.2023 | Statement on Israel | We have been devastated all week by what is going on in Israel. Our colleagues in the venture capital industry drafted the statement below and asked us to sign onto it. We have, and are strongly aligned with it. Venture Capital Community S... |
| 03.10.2023 | Paying attention to the climate crisis | In March of this year, the IPCC reported that global surface temperature for the years 2011-2020 had reached an average of 1.1°C higher than pre-industrial levels. This unequivocally came as a result of human activity, principally through t... |
| 18.09.2023 | Chamber | Today we’re excited to announce our investment in Chamber, a new service for securely holding digital assets. One of the challenges for crypto adoption is the perception that it is unsafe. Research by Pew found “75% of Americans who have h... |
| 08.08.2023 | Daybreak’s Series B | Over the last several years, USV has built out both our thesis and portfolio around tackling the mental health crisis. Our investments have broadly broken down into three groups: Broadening access to care by making it easier to find, recei... |
| 31.07.2023 | Mind the Storage Gap | Co-authored with Mark Khalil Deployment of renewables has been accelerating globally. In 2022, around 12% of electricity came from wind and solar, compared to less than 3% a decade ago. These resources offer access to low-cost clean energy... |
| 16.06.2023 | Hallucinations as a feature, not a bug | Co-authored with Grace Carney A few months ago Fred kicked off a conversation about what the “native” applications of AI technology will be. What are the new things or businesses that we can now build that weren’t possible before the curre... |
| 12.06.2023 | Tutors for Everyone | In 2009 we hosted a one day event we called “Hacking Education.” We brought together a diverse group that included game designers, principals from schools, and even homeschoolers. We were fortunate to have the late Sir Ken Robinson give ope... |
| 04.06.2023 | The Historic Fund | We are proud to announce our participation in the Historic Fund, a new initiative supporting HBCUs in the United States. We have invited a number of HBCUs to be limited partners in venture capital funds without having to invest their own ca... |
| 25.05.2023 | Odyssey | 3.5 billion people in the world do not have access to reliable electricity, and over $1T in renewable energy investments are needed in emerging markets in the next decade. Achieving this coverage can only happen if we can greenlight a large... |
| 10.05.2023 | AI Reliability and Building Trusted Brands | tl;dr: For increasingly capable AIs to gain widespread adoption, they will have to earn our trust by reliably doing what we want in the ways we want. Four promising areas for ensuring reliability and corrigibility in AI products are: refini... |
| 28.04.2023 | Trust and Artificial Intelligence | Trust is the core component of the USV investment thesis: “trusted brands that broaden access” is the opening description of our articulation. In a world of applications that are driven by artificial intelligence, we are now thinking about ... |
| 25.04.2023 | CarbonChain | Co-authored by Rebecca Kaden Of the world’s 2,000 largest public companies, at least 21% now have net-zero commitments. To fulfill these commitments, companies need to understand their full emissions. Despite increased efforts, there are s... |
| 25.04.2023 | Joining the Venture Climate Alliance | At USV we intend to make a meaningful contribution to solving the climate crisis. In addition to making investments from our climate funds, we are committing to track, reduce and offset emissions at both the USV and portfolio levels. To amp... |
| 19.04.2023 | AI Learning Summit | Last week USV and Reach Capital co-hosted the AI Learning Summit. We welcomed over 75 builders, founders, educators, students, and policy makers into our library for a day of demoing fresh projects and discussing the ways in which learning ... |
| 11.04.2023 | Noya | USV’s climate thesis is to “invest in companies and projects that provide mitigation for or adaptation to the climate crisis.” When it comes to mitigation, we believe that capturing carbon and sequestering it is a critical effort. Someone... |
| 02.03.2023 | Joining USV – Matt | I’m thrilled to be starting at USV as an analyst on our investment team. I’m joining USV from AeroFarms, a startup building vertical farms around the world. During my time there, I wore a bunch of different hats, ranging from working with e... |
| 02.03.2023 | Joining USV – Grace | I’m excited to be joining Union Square Ventures as an analyst. I started out my career at Bain, where I spent a significant amount of time running investment diligence on a range of growth-to-late stage technologies across consumer, enterpr... |
| 02.03.2023 | Joining USV – Nikhil | I am incredibly excited to be joining Union Square Ventures as an analyst on our investment team. Prior to USV, I was part of the founding team at Daffy, where I helped build a fintech tool focused on increasing charitable giving. Before th... |
| 16.02.2023 | Building Out the Climate Capital Stack | Co-authored by Mona We recently announced that we have started to invest from our second climate fund. Much like our first climate fund this is an early stage fund, making initial investments at the seed and Series A stages. Generally thes... |
| 26.01.2023 | Hume AI | Bob Dylan’s song Like A Rolling Stone contains the famous chorus: “How does it feel?” This line heralded a generation of music, art, and science that tackled the messiness and complexity of human feeling with an intensely directed focus. ... |
| 24.01.2023 | Journey Clinical’s Series A | The state of mental health in the US is abysmal. 1 in 5 American adults report suffering from mental illness–and nearly 1 in 3 between 18 and 25. A core piece of our thesis at USV focuses on broadening access to wellbeing, with mental healt... |
| 15.12.2022 | Mombak | Co-authored by Mona Emissions reduction alone is not enough to address the climate crisis. Carbon removal is an essential part of any solution. In fact, all IPCC 1.5c scenarios feature annual carbon removal at the gigaton level — somewhere... |
| 09.12.2022 | USV 2022 Climate Fund | We are pleased to announce that we have raised a new $200M Climate Fund. This is our second climate fund dedicated to investing in mitigation for and adaptation to climate change. Given the state of the climate crisis and the opportunity s... |
| 07.12.2022 | Ostrom | One of the pillars of the USV investment thesis is “trusted brands”, and a core component of brand trust is structural alignment. Structural alignment means that from a fundamental business model perspective, the company’s economics and inc... |
| 20.10.2022 | Lithos Carbon | Agriculture is both contributing to the climate crisis and being negatively impacted by it. According to the USDA, agriculture is responsible for more than 10% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. At the same time, changes in temperature and r... |
| 19.10.2022 | Anthro Energy | From the electrification of end-uses such as vehicles and heating to storage supporting intermittent renewables, many emission-reduction efforts rely heavily on lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries. But today’s batteries are not up to the task. T... |
| 06.10.2022 | Blackbird Labs | At USV, we are looking for applications that can bring hundreds of millions of users onto web3. As great as the decentralized finance and digital art applications of web3 are, they aren’t likely to get my mom or your mom onto web3. One are... |
| 04.10.2022 | Molten Industries | The first time I met Kevin Bush and Caleb Boyd was at their garage, conveniently located in Kevin’s backyard. In that small garage, their curiosity was massive. The two experimented with everything from producing green cement to building a ... |
| 06.09.2022 | USV Analyst Program 2022 | As we pre-announced a week ago, the time has come again for a new USV analyst cohort. This blog post lays out what the USV analyst program is and how you apply for it, including FAQs that we will update occasionally as the process unfolds. ... |
| 26.08.2022 | Zanskar | Co-authored by Albert Wenger. Geothermal energy is a vastly underdeveloped resource relative to its potential; just 0.1% of the Earth’s heat content could supply humanity’s total energy needs for two million years. It is also a great sourc... |
| 25.08.2022 | USV Analyst Program 2022: Heads Up | It is hard to believe but well over two years have passed since Hannah, Hanel and David joined us as analysts at USV (David left midstream to start Primitives and Mona joined us). This means we are about to kick off another analyst recruiti... |
| 18.07.2022 | Ghost’s Series A | Co-authored by Rebecca Kaden Excess inventory is one of the worst-kept secrets in ecommerce. Brands overproduce more than $500B of goods annually. In categories like cosmetics, less than 50% of inventory is sold within a 12-month window. S... |
| 13.07.2022 | XFuel | Co-authored with Nick Grossman Transportation, including road, rail, air, and marine, has a greater reliance on fossil fuels than any other sector. It accounts for 37% of CO2 emissions from end-uses. Electrification has been the preferred ... |
| 06.07.2022 | Investing in Climate Adaptation | Co-authored by Hanel Baveja, Mona Alsubaei The USV Climate Fund is focused on companies that provide mitigation for, or adaptation to, the climate crisis. Mitigation means drawdown of existing greenhouse gasses and reducing future emissio... |
| 28.04.2022 | USV 2022 Funds | Co-authored with Andy Weissman We are pleased to announce that we have raised two new funds: a $275M Core Fund and a $350M Opportunity Fund. The new funds will be our eighth early stage fund and our fourth opportunity fund, respectively. ... |
| 20.04.2022 | Shift EV | Transportation is the sector with the largest CO2 emissions, accounting for 37% of total CO2 emissions from end-use sectors globally. A crucial strategy for the reduction of those emissions is the electrification of transportation. In that ... |
| 15.04.2022 | Slope | Co-authored by Rebecca Kaden Even with the explosion of new digital payment options over the last decade, there is still a wide gap between the B2C and B2B payment user experience. On the consumer side, buy now pay later (BNPL) companies ... |
| 12.04.2022 | 2022 DEI Priorities | Diverse teams build better businesses1. To further support this statement, we have found that aggregating data from 100+ scaling tech companies helps many of them level up their internal processes and support levers. For example, in 2020 w... |
| 06.04.2022 | Brilliant Planet | Co-authored by John Buttrick Of the world’s 2,000 largest public companies, at least 21% now have net-zero commitments. For most of these companies, even with significant emissions reduction, carbon offsetting will be essential to achievin... |
| 28.03.2022 | David Energy’s Series A | Co-authored by Rebecca Kaden Energy is a real-time commodities market. The grid must balance supply and demand minute-by-minute to avoid blackouts or surges. Big changes in supply (wind stops blowing) or demand (everyone turns on their AC)... |
| 21.03.2022 | Alife’s Series A | Fertility treatment today is largely a blunt object approach to a highly personal moment. It begins with a one size fits most process designed to be adjusted on the edges over a series of cycles–for most women, 3-5. The good news is that fo... |
| 16.03.2022 | Climate Tech Investing in Emerging Markets (Part Two) | This post is written in collaboration with CrossBoundary, an investment firm unlocking capital for sustainable growth in underserved global markets. In January, I wrote about the case for climate tech investing in emerging markets. In addi... |
| 09.03.2022 | Radiant | USV’s Climate Thesis is to invest in companies and projects that provide mitigation for or adaptation to the climate crisis. One important way that we can both mitigate and adapt to the climate crisis is to use more nuclear energy. I wrote ... |
| 09.03.2022 | WalletConnect | For the original web to be widely adopted, people needed a web browser. This seems trivial today as every new computing device comes preloaded with one or more browsers. But early on this was a chicken and egg problem. There were a variety ... |
| 16.02.2022 | Ceramic | As my partner Brad noted in 2019, the first generation of the internet (aka “Web 1”) was built as a “stateless” system. In other words, data packets could be moved around the network, but the network itself couldn’t store them or create per... |
| 15.02.2022 | Shortwave | Email is one of the greatest communication tools ever invented – a universal, public system that enables written communication among all people, anywhere on the planet. It can handle simple, short messages and rich content of all kinds. It ... |
| 15.02.2022 | Mundi’s Series A | Co-authored by John Buttrick. Each year, Mexico exports over $325 billion of goods to the US alone. However, SMEs represent only a tiny fraction – just 10% – of this massive business opportunity. This is largely structural, as SMEs have ma... |
| 07.02.2022 | m3ter | A core piece of USV’s thesis has long been around an enablement layer – the idea that horizontal tooling is essential to support growing ecosystems that sit on top. That belief has led to investments like Twilio, Shippo, Sift, Clarifai, and... |
| 07.02.2022 | Floodmapp | Co-authored by Nick Grossman. Thanks to major advances in GPS technology and the proliferation of mobile phones, we are used to predicting the arrival of everyday items with incredible accuracy. You can watch a Domino’s pizza make its way ... |
| 03.02.2022 | Parallel Markets | Co-authored by John Buttrick In 2015, we invested in Carta (FKA eShares) and wrote, “Anyone who owns shares or options in a private company instinctively knows that cap table management remains frustratingly analog…The collection and manag... |
| 20.01.2022 | Climate Tech Investing in Emerging Markets (Part One) | This post is written in collaboration with CrossBoundary, an investment firm unlocking capital for sustainable growth in underserved global markets. I recently joined the USV team and as many investors and founders, I have been a long-time... |
| 06.12.2021 | Joining Union Square Ventures | Some of you in the USV network might know me. My USV journey started in March 2021. I worked on the USV climate fund while doing my MBA. This month, I’m officially joining the investment team full-time in New York. While I expect to continu... |
| 20.11.2021 | USV Algorand Transparency Statement, Q3 2021 | As part of an ongoing effort to bring transparency and clarity to the Algorand project, we are continuing to publish regular transparency statements on our Algorand holdings and activities. Entities and financial relationships: USV has ma... |
| 02.11.2021 | Sofar Ocean’s Series B | Co-authored by Rebecca Kaden There are over 4,000 satellites in orbit around the Earth today. Enabled by advances in IoT and distributed sensing in the last few decades, these satellites help us do everything from GPS navigation to weather... |
| 27.09.2021 | Fiveable’s Series A | Co-authored by Rebecca Kaden Inequities in our education system are well-documented. High-quality instructors, college prep classes, and affordable test prep materials are unevenly distributed. However, learners in today’s classrooms don’t... |
| 01.09.2021 | REVOS | Increased mobility is one of the great accomplishments of the industrial age. We can get to places much faster whether it is for work, to visit friends and family, for sightseeing, or to participate in an event. Those gains, however, have c... |
| 25.08.2021 | Mindset | The original paparazzi is thought to be Tazio Secchiaroli, famous for his 1958 photograph of King Farouk of Egypt sitting in a cafe in Rome with two women, neither of them his wife. The former King tried to break Secchiaroli’s camera, cemen... |
| 25.08.2021 | Bright Moments DAO | Yesterday, USV sent 500 ETH to the Bright Moments DAO and we got back one million Bright Moments DAO (BRT) tokens into our wallet. This is the third time USV has invested in a DAO and we will blog about the other two in the coming weeks. Th... |
| 16.08.2021 | Measurement in Market Making | In order to provide high-powered incentives in any economic market, you need an accurate and ongoing measurement of quality. For example, it’s difficult to imagine a financial system in which capital market participants cannot review audite... |
| 12.08.2021 | Dune Analytics | The amount of invention and creativity happening in crypto is head-spinning. Countless projects, protocols, apps, tokens, and communities are launching, layering, merging, forking and growing every day. It’s a lot to keep up with. Fortunat... |
| 09.08.2021 | Remora | In the US, medium and heavy duty trucks account for 70% of all freight transport and 6.5% of all GHG emissions. While emerging technologies like battery electric and hydrogen fuel cells have the potential to help decarbonize this sector, th... |
| 29.07.2021 | Transmutex | Electrification of transportation, heating, and various industrial processes is crucial to fighting the climate crisis. Of course that’s only true if we wind up generating that electricity without carbon emissions. Renewable energy, includi... |
| 28.07.2021 | Supporting Teams in their Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Efforts | Co-authored by Alex Gachanja As captured in USV Thesis 3.0, the potential to leverage networks is a core component of our investment criteria. Over the years, it has become clear that diversity within networks builds better businesses. Org... |
| 28.07.2021 | The Growing Demand for Clean Electricity | The availability of abundant and affordable energy is directly linked to the quality of life. Energy consumption of 100 GJ or more per capita appears to be a precondition to achieving a high degree of human development (the United Nations H... |
| 01.07.2021 | Karat | Co-authored by Hannah Murdoch Ten years ago, USV wrote about how technology was changing the way people funded their ideas and earned a living. Investing in Kickstarter, we noted: “Creative people will continue to produce amazing works. W... |
| 01.07.2021 | USV Algorand Transparency Statement, Q2 2021 | As part of an ongoing effort to bring transparency and clarity to the Algorand project, we are continuing to publish regular transparency statements on our Algorand holdings and activities. Entities and financial relationships: USV has ma... |
| 29.06.2021 | VIAM | “Danger, Will Robinson!” was one of the catchphrases of Robot Model B-9, mostly known simply as the Robot, in the 1960s TV Series Lost in Space. More than half a century later, we have plenty of industrial robots toiling away in factories a... |
| 07.06.2021 | Electrifying Buildings | This is one of several posts on new areas we are exploring for USV’s Climate Fund. Electrifying buildings will play a critical role in managing our carbon budget. Nearly 18% of global greenhouse gas emissions are attributed to powering res... |
| 03.06.2021 | Scaling Ethereum with zkSync | Ethereum has grown into an incredibly rich ecosystem, demonstrating the network effects that are possible when you combine wallets, developers, assets, liquidity, and layered protocols. As a result, we are getting our first glimpses of what... |
| 26.05.2021 | ADDI | Co-authored by Hanel Baveja While we are not the first to point this out, access to capital in Latin America remains a massive challenge. Financial infrastructure and tools are concentrated on the top earners, excluding the majority of the... |
| 04.05.2021 | alt.bank | For most of USV’s history, we focused on investments in North America and Europe. We are a small firm and there was more than enough opportunity in these regions. We also gravitated towards companies where it would be relatively easy to tra... |
| 29.04.2021 | Tokenized Natural Assets | This is one of several posts on new areas we are exploring for USV’s Climate Fund. Natural resources such as fertile land and healthy oceans are the ultimate foundations of the economy and civilization, and their protection and regrowth ar... |
| 28.04.2021 | Joining Union Square Ventures | I am delighted to join Union Square Ventures as General Counsel. I am joining the team at an exciting moment. We are pursuing many complex investments across our web and mobile, crypto and climate platforms; our team is thinking hard about ... |
| 20.04.2021 | Hacking Healthcare | In “Illness as Metaphor”, Susan Sontag wrote “Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship in the kingdom of the well and the kingdom of the sick…sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens ... |
| 16.04.2021 | soona | Co-authored by Hannah Murdoch The language of commerce has always been visual. Tiffany’s published their Blue Book in 1845, the first direct-mail catalogue in the United States. The publication distributed pages of the world’s finest jewel... |
| 01.04.2021 | Exploring Geothermal | This is one of several posts on new areas we are exploring for USV’s Climate Fund. Geothermal energy has massive potential: just 0.1% of the Earth’s heat content could supply humanity’s total energy needs for two million years. Geothermal ... |
| 01.04.2021 | USV Algorand Transparency Statement, Q4 2020 & Q1 2021 | As part of an ongoing effort to bring transparency and clarity to the Algorand project, we are continuing to publish regular transparency statements on our Algorand holdings and activities. Entities and financial relationships: USV’s has ... |
| 15.03.2021 | Mitigating the Climate Crisis: An Overview | Late last year, we announced the USV Climate Fund. At the time, we wrote that “[m]itigation is working on the causes of the climate crisis through either emissions reduction or drawdown of existing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.” In ... |
| 10.02.2021 | SmartHop’s Series A | The trucking industry is one of the oldest and most interesting in the US. It is also one I’ve always been fascinated by–partly because, for a couple of generations, it was where my family made their living. My paternal great grandfather, D... |
| 26.01.2021 | USV 2021 Fund | We are pleased to announce that USV has raised a 2021 Core Fund with commitments of $250 million. This Core Fund will complement our new Climate Fund and existing Opportunity Fund. This will be USV’s seventh early-stage venture fund since t... |
| 08.01.2021 | USV Climate Fund | At USV we describe ourselves as a “thesis-driven venture capital firm.” For our core fund, we have been investing against Thesis 3.0 for some time. Over the last couple of years, we have been developing a separate Climate Thesis, including ... |
| 08.01.2021 | SilviaTerra | Key to addressing the climate crisis is changing the balance in the so-called carbon cycle. At present, every year we are adding roughly 5 gigatons of carbon to the atmosphere*. Since atmospheric carbon acts as a greenhouse gas this increas... |
| 18.12.2020 | Hacking Education 2.0 | More than ten years ago, USV hosted a small group of educators, entrepreneurs, activists, and investors for a day-long session called Hacking Education. In summarizing that discussion, our partner Brad described the group’s collective optim... |
| 16.12.2020 | Stacks 2.0 | The Bitcoin whitepaper is now over a decade old and Bitcoin as a system has been up and running continuously since January 3, 2009. Much has happened in the crypto world since then, including of course the launch of Ethereum and more recent... |
| 20.10.2020 | Making Butter with Jam | At its best, building a product with others is a joyful, magical process. It’s like being on a championship team and getting into the zone. Or hosting an epic jam session where the band comes together and music flows like a hose over the cr... |
| 20.10.2020 | Our Investment in Possible | Co-authored by Hanel Baveja 91 million Americans struggle to access money when they need it, often resulting in excess cost and low credit scores. Sadly, this is big business. This consumer group pays $106 billion in fees each year for sho... |
| 02.10.2020 | USV Algorand Transparency Statement, Q3 2020 | As part of an ongoing effort to bring transparency and clarity to the Algorand project, we are continuing to publish regular transparency statements on our Algorand holdings and activities. Entities and financial relationships: USV’s has ... |
| 01.10.2020 | Sora | Co-authored by Hannah Murdoch USV’s education portfolio is built around the idea of changing a system from the outside in. By going directly to learners with products and platforms that offer high quality experiences for free or at accessi... |
| 18.09.2020 | Outschool’s Series B | In the post about USV’s initial investment in Outschool 16 months ago, I wrote about the dramatic need for innovation in an education system that looked effectively the same as it did 50 years ago. While the internet had altered almost ever... |
| 10.09.2020 | Mental Healthcare 3.0 Part 2 | Part 2: Four Ideas for 3.0 In Part 1 of this series, I wrote about the transition from 2.0 to 3.0 in mental healthcare technology and why we are paying attention to it. What might it look like to create a scalable, defensible, networked me... |
| 09.09.2020 | Bolster Your Management Team And Board | I have had the great pleasure of working with Matt Blumberg and the senior leadership team of USV’s former portfolio company Return Path (which was sold in 2019) for much of the last twenty years. Matt and and many members of his leadership... |
| 01.09.2020 | Mental Healthcare 3.0 | Part 1: The 2.0-> 3.0 Transition If mental health technology was like language-learning solutions, we have been in the language CD and tapes phase for the last decade or so. The shift from language textbooks to CDs was a 1.0->2.0 tr... |
| 13.08.2020 | A Quick Update On Hiring | Back in May we published this post on how COVID was impacting hiring across the portfolio. On its worst day, our job board had only 750 jobs available, down over 50% from earlier in the year. With open jobs in the portfolio now climbing abo... |
| 28.07.2020 | Meet Cute (or, one way to create a new media business) | Andy Warhol once said, “It’s really much more interesting what you see walking from one gallery to another than what you see in the galleries.” What he likely meant is that the best art is simply watching people. Watching them interact in e... |
| 23.07.2020 | Headgum | When things are serious, we need humor more than ever. At this unique point in history, bringing more laughter and authenticity to a wider audience when many of us are aching for connection is vital. Our investment in Headgum is based on t... |
| 09.07.2020 | Collecting Diversity and Inclusion data for your company | A company’s demographic makeup has never been more relevant. Employees want to know things: how leadership plans to measure and prioritize diversity, equity and inclusion, how they compare to other companies in their sector or industry, and... |
| 06.07.2020 | NYC Tech Companies: Please Consider Participating in Summer Bridge | NYC’s Summer Youth Employment Program is the nation’s largest youth employment program, historically connecting NYC’s neediest young adults (between the ages of 14 and 24) with a paid work experience every summer. The COVID-19 pandemic thre... |
| 01.07.2020 | USV Algorand Transparency Statement, Q1 & Q2 2020 | As part of an ongoing effort to bring transparency and clarity to the Algorand project, we are continuing to publish regular transparency statements on our Algorand holdings and activities (we apologize for the delay on the Q1 reporting and... |
| 26.06.2020 | Augmented Reality NFTs | Nonfungible Tokens, or NFTs, provide a way to verify that a digital asset is uniquely owned and has specific properties, thus potentially giving the asset value through scarcity. This is a powerful idea for gaming because in many games user... |
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| 15.05.2025 | Stash Announces $146M Series H to Enable AI-Enhanced Financial Guidance | Listen to this article 0:00 / 0:29 1X BeyondWords Stash, the platform helping people build financial futures, announced that it has secured $146 million in a new Series H funding through a round led by Goodwater Capital, with participation ... |
| 13.05.2025 | Stash Secures $146 Million to Fuel Financial Empowerment | In the bustling heart of New York City, Stash has struck gold. The investment platform provider recently announced a hefty $146 million in Series H funding. This financial windfall, led by Goodwater Capital, is set to propel Stash into new ... |
| 13.05.2025 | Stash: $146 Million Series H Raised And $4.3 Billion AUM Milestone | Stash, a transformative platform helping millions build financial futures, announced that it has secured $146 million in an oversubscribed new Series H funding through a round led by Goodwater Capital, with participation from returning inve... |
| 12.05.2025 | Stash Raises $146M in Series H Funding | Stash, a NYC-based investment platform provider, raised $146M in Series H funding. The round was led by Goodwater Capital, with participation from returning investors Union Square Ventures, StepStone Group, Serengeti, and the University of ... |
| 04.05.2025 | CIV Launched With $210 Million Fund To Invest In Companies Reshaping Industries | CIV, an investment firm focused on backing and building transformative companies that transform critical industries, announced the closing of its inaugural CIV Fund One. This fund has been oversubscribed, with over $210 million in commitmen... |
| 27.03.2025 | “Wir sind stolz auf die Automatisierung unserer Geschäftsprozesse” | Das Berliner Startup Ostrom, 2020 von Matthias Martensen und Karl Villanueva gegründet, tritt an, um den “Strommarkt zu revolutionieren”. Der amerikanische Geldgeber SE Ventures, der von Schneider Electric unterstützt wird, sowie Altinvesto... |
| 11.03.2025 | Viam: $30 Million (Series C) Raised For Advancing Power Of Data And AI In The Physical World | Viam, the engineering platform for data, AI, and automation, announced $30 million in Series C funding. It was led by existing investor Union Square Ventures and participated in by Battery Ventures, Neurone, and other existing investors. Vi... |
| 06.03.2025 | Zeitview: $60 Million Secured For Advancing AI-Based Inspections Of Critical Infrastructure | Zeitview, a leader in visual AI for critical infrastructure, announced a capital raise of $60 million led by Climate Investment, with participation from current investors Valor Equity Partners, Union Square Ventures, Upfront Ventures, Eucli... |
| 04.03.2025 | Zeitview Secures $60M to Advance AI-Powered Inspections of Global Critical Infrastructure | After doubling growth to 200,000+ assets inspected across 80 countries in 2024, Zeitview accelerates investment in Insights, its Visual AI platform Climate Investment leads the capital raise, with participation from existing investors Zeitv... |
| 03.03.2025 | Viam Secures $30 Million to Propel AI and Data Integration in the Physical World | In the bustling heart of New York City, Viam has emerged as a beacon of innovation. The engineering platform, which melds data, AI, and automation, recently announced a substantial $30 million in Series C funding. This latest round, led by ... |
| 03.03.2025 | Viam Raises $30M in Series C Funding | Viam, a NYC-based engineering platform for data, AI and automation, raised $30M in Series C funding. The round, which brought total amount raised to $117M, was led by existing investor Union Square Ventures, with participation from Battery ... |
| 03.03.2025 | Viam Announces a $30 Million Series C to Continue Advancing the Power of Data and AI in the Physical World | Viam, the engineering platform for data, AI and automation, today announced $30 million in Series C funding, led by existing investor Union Square Ventures with participation from Battery Ventures, Neurone, and other existing investors. Via... |
| 07.02.2025 | Reservoir Raises $14M in Series A Funding | Reservoir, a US-based crypto startup, raised $14m in Series A funding. The round was led by Union Square Ventures with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Variant, Archetype, and 1kx. In conjunction with the funding, Nick Grossman, a part... |
| 07.02.2025 | Presto: $15 Million (Seed) Raised For EV Charging Platform | Presto – an all-in-one EV charging platform – announced that it has raised $15 million in seed funding from Union Square Ventures, Congruent Ventures, Powerhouse Ventures, and Jetstream. And through Presto’s app and APIs, fleets can find, c... |
| 19.01.2025 | Web3 Adoption: Reown Raises $13 Million to Build Onchain UX Platform | Reown (formerly known as WalletConnect) announced it has closed a $13 million Series B funding round. Known as the builders of the WalletConnect Network, Reown is leading the charge in improving onchain UX. The investment round was led by U... |
| 16.01.2025 | Reown: Onchain UX Platform Company Raises $13 Million (Series B) | Reown (previously known as WalletConnect) announced it has closed a $13 million Series B funding round. USV and 1kx led the funding round and it also included Global Digital Asset Holdings (a joint venture investment vehicle established by ... |
| 04.12.2024 | India Digest: Solar startup Glow raises $30m; Peak XV backs US-based AI startup | Solar energy startup Glow has raised $30 million in a fresh round of funding from venture capital firms Framework and Union Square Ventures. Separately, Peak XV Partners, which has most of its investments in India and Southeast Asia has bac... |
| 02.12.2024 | Sebamed's 'Project Skin Deep' Campaign Shows Proof of Real Beauty | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Sebamed’s latest campaign shows proof of beautiful skin, in never seen before images done for the first time in India In partnership with Leo Burnett, ‘Project Skin Deep’ boldly magnifies the unseen skin and boldl... |
| 26.11.2024 | Activate: New Board Members And $3.5 Billion Fellows Funding Milestone | Activate, a nonprofit fellowship where science entrepreneurs transform ideas into advanced hard-tech companies, announced a new funding milestone: Activate Fellows, current and alumni, have raised a cumulative $3.5 billion in funding for th... |
| 24.10.2024 | EU-Startups Podcast | Episode 92: Diyala D’Aveni, Head of Vento | In this episode, we catch up with Diyala D’Aveni, Head of Vento, an Italian venture capital firm backed by Exor Ventures that focuses on discovering exceptional founders with the ambition to build great companies and supporting them from pr... |
| 18.10.2024 | SuppCo Raises $5.5M in Seed Funding | SuppCo, a New York based startup that helps people find health supplements, manage routines, and track health, reportedly raised $5.5m in seed funding. The round was co-led by Union Square Ventures and True Ventures, with participation from... |
| 15.10.2024 | Swell VC: Fund II Closed With $11.5 Million In Commitments | Swell VC, an early-stage venture capital firm investing in market-defining opportunities, announced it closed Fund II with $11.5 million in commitments. And the fund’s backers include a diverse mix of successful founders, family offices acr... |
| 15.10.2024 | Ghost Raises $40M in Series C Funding | Ghost, a Los Angeles, CA-based B2B marketplace connecting brands and retailers, raised $40M in Series C funding. The round was led by L Catterton, a global consumer-focused investment firm, with participation from existing investors includi... |
| 26.09.2024 | David Energy: $23 Million Secured For Running The Grid On Clean Energy | Gridtech company David Energy announced that it has secured $23 million in funding to transform the retail energy market and make a clean energy grid a reality. This funding was led by Cathay Innovation, with participation from previous inv... |
| 13.09.2024 | These Female Founders And CEOs Raised The Biggest Rounds In 2024 | 6 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn When measuring funding to startups with female founders and CEOs, the perennial takeaway is that women remain underrepresented. Last year, for instance, just 3% of U.S. funding went to startups with ... |
| 07.09.2024 | The Regulatory Storm: Uniswap and the Crypto Frontier | The cryptocurrency landscape is a wild frontier. A place where innovation meets regulation. Recently, the New York State Attorney General, Letitia James, has turned her gaze toward Uniswap, a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform. This scru... |
| 04.09.2024 | VC Giants a16z, Union Square Ventures Get Subpoenaed by New York About Uniswap: Sources | New York State Attorney General Letitia James has joined a regulatory offensive against cryptocurrency trading platform Uniswap, according to internal communications regarding the NYAG subpoenas seen by CoinDesk and two people who are famil... |
| 22.08.2024 | Google’s Search Engine Fails Users: A Fraudulent Phone Number Crisis | In the digital age, trust is a fragile thing. Google, the titan of search engines, is facing a storm. Users are falling prey to fraudsters who exploit its platform. The result? A staggering loss of $100,000 for one unsuspecting victim. This... |
| 22.08.2024 | Consensus: AI-Based Scientific Research Search Engine Raises $11.5 Million (Series A) | Consensus, an AI-based search engine for scientific research, announced that it raised $11.5 million in new Series A funding. This funding round was led by Union Square Ventures, whose previous Series A investments include Twitter, Coinbase... |
| 19.08.2024 | Consensus raises $11.5M for AI research engine for scientific papers | Photo: sanjeri/Getty Images Consensus, an AI-enabled academic search engine for scientific research, raised $11.5 million in a Series A funding round led by Union Square Ventures. Perplexity lead investors Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman part... |
| 17.08.2024 | Sling: Money Transfer Service Secures $15 Million (Series A) | Sling Money, an app built to make the global transfer of money easier and low-cost, announced a $15 million Series A round led by Union Square Ventures, Ribbit Capital, and Slow Ventures. Sling Money had previously raised a $5 million seed ... |
| 14.08.2024 | Consensus Raises $11.5 Million in Series A Funding to Make the World's Scientific Research Discoverable and Consumable | Consensus Founders, Eric Olson (left) and Christian Salem (right) Celebrated VC Firm Union Square Ventures leads a Series A round along with Perplexity lead investors Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross in support of the AI Search Engine for Scie... |
| 05.07.2024 | Blixt Appoints Daniel Öhlander as Head of Sales and Marketing to Drive Global Expansion | Blixt Appoints Daniel Öhlander as Head of Sales and Marketing to Drive Global Expansion Fri, Jul 05, 2024 11:00 CET Report this content Blixt, a leader in software-defined solid-state power systems, proudly announces Daniel Öhlander as its ... |
| 26.06.2024 | Crypto Giants Notch Wins in Expensive Quest to Sway U.S. Politics – Without Mentioning Crypto | The crypto industry has been deploying a $169 million fund that's so far supported more than 20 congressional primary wins in the 2024 elections – including helping knock off an incumbent congressman in New York this week. The companies beh... |
| 21.06.2024 | "How the heck can you build a multi-billion dollar business in Düsseldorf?" questioned VC | Düsseldorf might not seem the most obvious startup hub but the German city has all the ingredients for a startup to flourish, according to one of its offspring startups. Raffael Johnen, CEO and co-founder of Düsseldorf-based digital lender ... |
| 20.06.2024 | UNIGRID Battery Charges Ahead with $12 Million Funding Boost | UNIGRID Battery, a San Diego-based company revolutionizing sodium-ion battery technology, has secured a hefty $12 million in Series A funding. Transition VC and Ritz Venture Capital spearheaded the investment, with Union Square Ventures and... |
| 19.06.2024 | UNIGRID Battery Closes $12 Million In Funding To Scale Up Production | UNIGRID Battery, a San Diego-based company developing advanced sodium-ion batteries, announced a successful closing of an oversubscribed $12 million Series A funding round. The funding was Co-led by Transition VC and Ritz Venture Capital an... |
| 24.05.2024 | Farcaster Secures $150M Funding to Revolutionize Decentralized Social Networking | Farcaster, a pioneering decentralized social network protocol startup, has recently announced a significant milestone by raising $150 million in new funding. This substantial investment will not only fuel the expansion of Farcaster's featur... |
| 21.05.2024 | Farcaster secures $150M to expand decentralized social networking features Your vote of support is important to us and it helps us keep the content FREE. One click below supports our mission to provid... | Decentralized social network protocol startup Farcaster said today it has raised $150 million in new funding on a $1 billion valuation to further grow its user base and add new in-protocol features such as channels and direct messaging. Fou... |
| 24.04.2024 | Anon is building an automated authentication layer for the GenAI age | As the notion of the AI agent begins to take hold, and more tasks will be completed without a human involved, it is going to require a new kind of authentication to make sure only agents with the proper approval can access particular resour... |
| 25.03.2024 | BLIXT: Transforming Electrical Infrastructure with Innovative Technology | BLIXT, a trailblazer in the energy sector, has secured €5 million in funding to revolutionize electrical infrastructure. Led by Union Square Ventures and Energy Revolution Ventures, BLIXT aims to accelerate its mission of reshaping the futu... |
| 22.03.2024 | BLIXT: Electrical Infrastructure Company Raises €5 Million | BLIXT – a company transforming the electricity sector with an innovative software-defined power system – has successfully raised €5 million in a seed funding round co-led by Union Square Ventures (USV) and Energy Revolution Ventures (ERV). ... |
| 20.03.2024 | BLIXT Secures €5 Million Funding to Revolutionize Electrical Infrastructure | BLIXT Secures €5 Million Funding to Revolutionize Electrical Infrastructure Wed, Mar 20, 2024 11:10 CET Report this content Stockholm, March 20th 2024 — BLIXT, a pioneer in transforming the electricity sector with its cutting-edge software-... |
| 18.03.2024 | LACERA decreases venture capital allocation range, but experts say it doesn’t signal a trend | The Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association (LACERA) voted to decrease its allocation range to venture capital at a March 13 meeting. The board of investments voted to decrease its allocation range to venture capital and growth ... |
| 25.02.2024 | Abridge Revolutionizes Clinical Documentation with $150M Investment | Abridge, a trailblazer in generative AI for clinical documentation, has secured a massive $150 million Series C funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. This funding, coming on the heels of a $30 million Series B round, solidifies ... |
| 23.02.2024 | Abridge Secures $150M to Expand GenAI, Partners with Yale New Haven Health System | What You Should Know: – Abridge, the leading force in generative AI for clinical documentation, announced today a staggering $150 million Series C funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. The funding also includes participation fro... |
| 29.01.2024 | Over CHF 20 million for Transmutex novel nuclear energy system | Founded on 29 July 2019, Geneva based Transmutex is reinventing nuclear energy with the design of a safer, non-self-sustaining reaction technology that will usher in a new era of lower-cost and proliferation-resistant, carbon-free baseload... |
| 01.01.2024 | What Will Happen In 2024 | As we enter 2024, the capital markets have found their footing and are moving higher. The Fed has taken interest rates as far as they want at this time and inflation has come down. It seems that a “soft landing” is likely. That is good news... |
| 05.10.2023 | EV charging infrastructure provider Bolt.Earth raises $20M led by Union Square Ventures, others | EV charging infrastructure provider Bolt.Earth today said it has raised $20 million in funding led by Union Square Ventures, Prime Venture Partners, ITIGO Funds, and several others. Advertisment According to the company's statement, the r... |
| 08.08.2023 | Daybreak Health Snags $13M For School-Based Mental Health Services | Earlier this year, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy described the worsening mental health symptoms among the country’s youth as the “defining public health crisis of our time.” On Tuesday, investors poured $13 million into a startup trying... |
| 12.07.2023 | Flooding | I spent a good part of my childhood at West Point, the US Military Academy. I got an email yesterday with photos of the flooding at West Point. My dad and brother used to work in that grey stone building called Mahan Hall. And the same stor... |
| 05.07.2023 | Navigating Web3 And The Metaverse: A New Era Of Value Capture For Telcos | Marlene Ronstedt is the co-founder of Play by Ear, a Web3 consultancy company. |
| 27.04.2023 | m3ter has raised $14 million to help software businesses with pricing | The UK-based pricing operations platform m3ter has raised $14 million in Series A funding as it launches new analytics features and expands its U.S. presence. m3ter was founded to help software companies with their pricing. It helps compani... |
| 17.04.2023 | What Is A Protocol And Why Does It Matter? | USV’s current thesis is: Enabling trusted brands that broaden access to knowledge, capital, and well-being by leveraging networks, platforms, and protocols. https://www.usv.com/#thesis-3-0 That last word is powerful but unfortunately less u... |
| 12.04.2023 | Noya | Six months ago, I wrote about Direct Air Carbon Capture and ended with this: I remember hearing that “we’ve spent hundreds of years taking carbon out of the ground and putting it into our atmosphere and we are going to spend hundreds of yea... |
| 06.03.2023 | The Newest Members of the USV Team | Last Thursday, three new blog posts hit USV.com announcing our three new analysts: This is our tradition at USV. When someone starts at USV, we ask them to write a post on the USV blog introducing themselves. This helps founders who come to... |
| 21.02.2023 | What Does "Native" Mean | When a new technology comes to market, we often look for “native” applications of that technology. What is a “native” AI application? What is a “native” Web3 application? I have not seen a better articulation of “native” than my partner Alb... |
| 07.02.2023 | The Rebrand | I’d guess that upwards of half of USV’s portfolio companies have changed the name of their company during their lifetime. It is not hard to understand why. Founders start out with an idea and not much more. By the time they have built a pro... |
| 03.01.2023 | Here’s what USV plans to do in 2023 with its $200M climate fund | Downturn be damned — last month, Union Square Ventures announced that it had raised a $200 million climate fund less than two years after raising its first climate fund. The new fund is certain to add fuel to climate tech as 2023 kicks off ... |
| 27.12.2022 | 'The music stopped': 6 founders tell how they survived this year's bursting VC funding bubble, customers unwilling to spend, and a graveyard of fallen startup peers | In 2022, many startup founders watched their industries shift from "red-hot" to "on fire" — and not in a good way. Henrik Sorensen/Getty Images This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Inside... |
| 26.10.2022 | Talenta lanza el fondo Life Extension Ventures para invertir en startups de software para la salud | 26/10/2022 Nota de prensa TALENTA LANZA EL FONDO LIFE EXTENSION VENTURES PARA INVERTIR EN STARTUPS DE SOFTWARE PARA LA SALUD El pasado viernes 21 de octubre la CNMV aprobó el nuevo fondo español de venture capital Life Extension Ventures... |
| 20.10.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: new investments in alternative fat, Kroger buying Albertsons, Beyond Meat cuts 200 jobs | This week saw two new investments in startups making alternative fat products: Australia’s Nourish Ingredients and UK-based Hoxton Farms. Kroger announced plans to buy fellow grocery giant Albertsons and precision spraying startup Smart Ass... |
| 12.10.2022 | Brave Health lands $40M to support mental health services for Medicaid beneficiaries | Despite the fact that one in four Americans receive healthcare through Medicaid, research shows only 35% of psychiatrists actually accept it. Virtual mental health provider Brave Health is working to change that by primarily working with Me... |
| 04.10.2022 | Founding a Startup? Questions to Consider Series Introduction: Concept to Pre-seed In Summary | Over the course of the next 12 months, the Concept Ventures team will be publishing a series of actionable articles, essays and resources on how founders can prepare for pre-seed funding. This will take you on a journey from ‘making the dec... |
| 13.09.2022 | Making employee relocation hassle-free lands €11.6 million for Estonia-based Jobbatical | Tallinn-based AI-enabled platform focused on making employee relocation easy, Jobbatical has raised €11.6 million in funding. The round was led by Inventure VC, with the participation from Karma VC, Metaplanet, and current owners Union Squa... |
| 18.08.2022 | This new $100M fund plans to focus on startups accelerating the science around longevity | Longevity-focused startups have been proliferating in recent years as we become more focused on our health. However, it’s not just about apps to get you in the gym. Longevity startups can range from biotech-oriented disease prevention, even... |
| 17.08.2022 | Slipping out of stealth, Super soups it up with £22.5 million | Super has raised £22.5 million in a funding round led by none other than existing investor Accel. According to Super's about us page, this is a pre-seed round. Which, would then make Accel, Union Square Venture, and LocalGlobe's $30 million... |
| 17.08.2022 | Slipping out of stealth, Super soups it up with £22.5 million pre-seed round | Bristol-based Super has raised £22.5 million in a pre-seed funding round led by none other than existing investor Accel. I’ll repeat that: pre. seed. 😮 Founded early this year by the former CEO and co-founder of a certain other fintech you’... |
| 11.08.2022 | 7 investors discuss why edtech startups must go back to basics to survive | In retrospect, edtech’s spotlight feels like a fever dream. In the early innings of the pandemic, top companies turned into unicorns seemingly overnight as Zoom school became an actual reality for millions across the world, and a frenzy of ... |
| 11.08.2022 | Abridge Secures $12.5M to Power AI-Powered Medical Conversations | What You Should Know: Provider burnout continues to be a serious issue for healthcare systems, especially in the aftermath of the pandemic. National studies suggest that more than 50 percent of providers experience burnout-related symptoms,... |
| 28.07.2022 | Stadium Live Raises $10M Series A Led by KB Partners and Union Square Ventures to Build the Digital World for Gen Z Sports Fans | TORONTO, July 28, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Stadium Live, the leading platform for Gen Z sports fans, today announced its $10 million Series A funding round led by KB Partners and Union Square Ventures. Kevin Durant's 35 Ventures, Blaise Mat... |
| 10.05.2022 | a16z, Coatue, USV invest in $725M developer fund for Dapper’s Flow blockchain | The web3 world is continuing to discover that it’s a lot harder to build a developer ecosystem than it is to build a platform. The Flow blockchain launched by NBA Top Shot creator Dapper Labs is looking to onboard more crypto developers and... |
| 03.05.2022 | An Ape Ain’t Free: In Defense of Ethereum’s Fees | The weekend of April 30 featured two different blockchain blowups that together illustrate the importance of how transaction fees are set on decentralized systems. Late on Saturday U.S. Eastern time, the Solana blockchain fell out of consen... |
| 29.04.2022 | USV quietly announces $625M in fresh funding for ‘both Web2 and Web3’ teams | Union Square Ventures (USV), the 19-year-old, New York-based venture firm, has raised $275 million for its eighth early-stage fund and $350 million for its fourth opportunity fund, the firm announced in a blog post yesterday. In sharing new... |
| 07.04.2022 | How overlay networks could change Web3 | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! The early internet concept of an overlay network ... |
| 20.03.2022 | Keeping It Simple | Investing is humbling. At 60, with 35 years of venture investing experience, I still get most things wrong. Which is why I like to keep things simple. And when I do I am rewarded. My friend Gordon asked me last night how I got into Bitcoin.... |
| 08.03.2022 | Index Ventures-backed auxmoney borrows €500 million to invest in upping its consumer loans business | Düsseldorf-based consumer loan provider auxmoney has secured another €500 million in debt funding this time via Citi and Natixis. This now brings auxmoney's debt funding to just over €3 billion. Using what the company calls a "unique s... |
| 15.02.2022 | Shortwave wants to bring back Google Inbox | Google’s Inbox experiment was a glorious thing while it lasted. Launched as an invitation-only service in 2014, it was the company’s next-gen email client. Because it was so good, it’s no surprise Google shut it down in 2019. Thankfully, th... |
| 08.02.2022 | m3ter launches from stealth with $17.5 million to supercharge SaaS industry with usage-based pricing | London-based metering and pricing engine for SaaS companies, m3ter has launched from stealth with $17.5 million in funding. The round saw the participation of Kindred Capital, Union Square Ventures and Insight Partners. The seed investment ... |
| 12.01.2022 | Web3Auth secures $13M from Sequoia India to simplify crypto onboarding and authentication | Web3 is seen as the future of the internet because it allows people to control their own data and digital assets, but crypto developers have been learning from the past when it comes to onboarding new users. The current state of crypto onbo... |
| 17.12.2021 | How NFTs Put Generative Artists on the Map | “Did I make over a million dollars this year? Yes I did.” Joshua Davis is among hundreds, maybe thousands, of creators who have made life-changing amounts of money from the non-fungible token (NFT) boom. But he didn’t make his mil selling p... |
| 22.11.2021 | From Cybersecurity To Climate Tech: The Startup Sectors That Will Get Billions From Biden’s Infrastructure Plan | 45 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn The recently signed $1.2 trillion U.S. infrastructure bill—though pared almost in half from President Biden’s original vision—still sets aside hundreds of billions of dollars for government investme... |
| 22.11.2021 | From Cybersecurity To Climate Tech: The Startup Sectors That Will Get Billions From Biden’s Infrastructure Plan | 84 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn The recently signed $1.2 trillion U.S. infrastructure bill—though pared almost in half from President Biden’s original vision—still sets aside hundreds of billions of dollars for government investme... |
| 28.09.2021 | Fiveable raises $10M Series A from USV and Owl Ventures | We're thrilled to share that Fiveable has raised it's Series A from Union Square Ventures and Owl Ventures - two leaders in VC and EdTech. Fiveable is “the hallways of the educational internet” and had over 7M students study, meet and conne... |
| 09.09.2021 | Generalist vs Specialist | At USV, we have a fairly narrow thesis that sets out what we want to invest in, but all of us work across all of our thesis areas. We see ourselves as generalists not specialists. In an environment when everything is moving so fast, that ca... |
| 02.09.2021 | Union Square Ventures makes its first India investment in EV infrastructure startup REVOS | Bengaluru-based electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure startup REVOS has raised a USD 4 million check as part of its Series A round from American investment firm Union Square Ventures (USV) and Indian early-stage VC Prime Venture Partners. Th... |
| 25.08.2021 | Bright Moments DAO | Occasionally, I will write at USV.com and today is one of those days. I wrote about an investment in a DAO called Bright Moments that we made this week. DAOs are interesting and we plan to do a bunch of DAO investing going forward. You can ... |
| 18.08.2021 | Splitting Ownership and Display/Consumption | I wrote about NFTs last week and said this in that post: But when a party emerges online that anyone is invited to attend and the 500 person group picks up a punk with a party hat and they all change their social network avatar to this, wel... |
| 17.08.2021 | Telegraphing | I recall when my partner Brad and I were raising our first USV fund, back in 2003, and potential investors wondered about my blogging habit. They asked if I was making a mistake telegraphing our investment thesis for everyone to see, includ... |
| 12.08.2021 | Dune.xyz | Dune.xyz is a community of crypto enthusiasts, analysts, and investors who use the open data available to all via public blockchains to create charts and other analyses to understand what is going on in these systems. One of the most import... |
| 30.07.2021 | Transmutex raises CHF 5.3 million to address radioactive waste | Co-founded in 2019 in Geneva, Transmutex develops nuclear technology designed to efficiently reduce the stockpile of existing nuclear waste based technologies tested at CERN and and at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI). The approach offers ... |
| 10.07.2021 | The case for funding fusion | Albert Wenger Contributor Share on Twitter Albert Wenger is a managing partner at Union Square Ventures. Digital technologies have disrupted the structure of markets with unprecedented breadth and scale. Today, there is yet another wave of ... |
| 03.06.2021 | Scaling Ethereum | One of the biggest challenges for developers building on Ethereum’s market leading smart contract platform/blockchain are the high fees and slow transactions. These issues arise from the fact that the Ethereum blockchain’s current architect... |
| 31.05.2021 | Can you code? Now is your chance to rescue the planet | It has never been so easy to build a technology product, raise capital, and bring it to thousands, even millions of people. |
| 27.05.2021 | Latin American Buy Now Pay Later Platform ADDI Scores $65 Million Through Series B Round Led By Union Square Ventures; Forms Partnership With Banco Santander | ADDI, a Latin-America-based Buy Now Pay Later platform, announced on Thursday it secured $65 million through its Series B funding round, which was led by Union Square ventures. The company also announced its new strategic partnership with B... |
| 30.04.2021 | Coinbase investor Fred Wilson said bitcoin could be a 'fantasy' when he first invested in 2013. His firm's stake is now worth a whopping $4.6 billion, or 1,840 times its initial investment | Fred Wilson once described bitcoin as science fiction - then invested $2.5 million in Coinbase. Eight years after, Wilson became the company's most profitable exit, selling the equivalent of $1.8 billion, Bloomberg reported. Wilson, a legen... |
| 30.04.2021 | Coinbase investor Fred Wilson said bitcoin could be a ‘fantasy’ when he first invested in 2013. His firm’s stake is now worth a whopping $4.6 billion, or 1,840 times its initial investment | Union Square Ventures co-founder Fred Wilson. Noam Galai/Getty Images for TechCrunch Fred Wilson once described bitcoin as science fiction – then invested $2.5 million in Coinbase. Eight years after, Wilson became the company’s most profita... |
| 29.04.2021 | Nuclear Energy | When I was in my early 20s, I had a conversation with my dad. I told him I was against nuclear power because it was dangerous and because it created radioactive waste that we had no idea how to safely dispose of. He replied that there certa... |
| 22.04.2021 | Medchart Raises $17M to Simply The Request of Medical Records for Patients, Businesses | What You Should Know: – Medchart, a Dallas-based cloud-based platform powering patient-authorized information for businesses, researchers, and consumer services announced it has raised $17M in seed and Series A funding led by Crosslink Capi... |
| 18.04.2021 | Soona secures US $ 10.2 million to enable virtual visual content creation | Soona, a Denver (United States) based company that helps organisations create quality photos and videos to promote their brands, has announced on 16th April 2021 that it has raised US$ 10.2 million in its series A funding round. The round w... |
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