| Date | Title | Description |
| 08.07.2024 | Startup founded by CBE-winning fintech pioneer reports losses of £7.5m in 2023 | A startup founded by a CBE-winning fintech pioneer has reported losses of £7.5m in 2023, with its overall losses now standing at £13.1m. Super Payments was founded by Samir Desai, a financial services trailblazer who co-founded Funding Circ... |
| 02.01.2019 | Union Square Ventures Raises $428.8M for New Core, Opportunity Funds | Union Square Ventures has raised $428.8 million for a two new funds, including a new core venture-capital fund and an opportunity fund, according to filings with the SEC. The firm also is raising an opportunity investors fund.
USV 2019 coll... |
| 02.01.2019 | Union Square Ventures secures $429M across two new funds | New York-based venture capital firm Union Square Ventures (USV) has submitted paperwork to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission indicating a $429 million fundraise across two new vehicles.
Founded in 2003 by Fred Wilson (pictured) an... |
| 31.12.2018 | Union Square Ventures Raises Nearly $429M For Two 2019-Vintage VC Funds
A New Early Stage Fund For 2019
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Late Friday afternoon, Union Square Ventures (USV) filed paperwork with the SEC disclosing that it has raised two new venture funds totaling nearly $430 million.
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| 06.10.2017 | Union Square Hospitality Group Completes Strategic Growth Equity Fund, at over $200M | Union Square Hospitality Group (USHG), the New York, NY – based hospitality company founded by Danny Meyer, completed raising a strategic growth equity fund, at over $200m.
Led by Mark Leavitt, Chief Investment Officer, Enlightened Hospital... |
| 10.12.2013 | Fred Wilson On Bitcoin, Unbundling, Data Leakage And Health Care | During the 10th edition of the LeWeb conference in Paris today, New York-based investor Fred Wilson explained the “mega trends” that currently influence which companies he invests in.
Wilson stressed that he doesn’t so much look at technolo... |
| 03.12.2013 | VC Fred Wilson supports Park Slope’s chess playing schoolkids | Notable early stage tech investor Fred Wilson, a principal of Union Square Ventures and an Etsy board member, says that chess teaches kids positive values.
He’s gotten into the habit of backing schools that need money to send promising stud... |
| 21.01.2011 | How Latin American startups are tapping into Silicon Valley | Alan Colmenares is the Facilitator for the Founder Institute program in Colombia, South America, a contributor to VentureBeat and writes about Latin American start-ups at TropicalGringo.
When I worked for Intel Capital, Intel’s corporate ve... |
| 15.01.2011 | The Opportunity Fund | We believe the venture capital business is a services business and the entrepreneur is the client. Over the past few years we have come across a number of entrepreneurs who we would have loved to work with but who had specific capital needs... |
| 15.01.2011 | Union Square's New $165 Million Fund Is All About Growing With The Network | Back in December, we spotted an SEC filing indicating that Union Square Ventures was raising between $135 million and $200 million for a new “Opportunity Fund.” The offering wasn’t complete and the firm could not discuss it, but today partn... |
| 11.01.2011 | NYC Turing Fellows Program imports elite tech students | Many in New York City’s startup ecosystem have lamented the lack of technical talent. To address this problem, a group of New York City investors and entrepreneurs are looking to lure elite technical talent from universities across North Am... |
| 08.01.2011 | SoundCloud | Our portfolio company SoundCloud wrote a blog post today welcoming our firm and Index Ventures to their company. I also wrote a blog post on USV.com explaining why we are excited to be involved with SoundCloud.
And I recorded my first podca... |
| 04.01.2011 | Confessions of a Hashable addict | In early September, I noticed introductions popping up on Twitter always cc’ing @Hashable. My first impression was that they were incredibly stupid vanity tweets clogging my Twitter feed. Three months later I have to confess that I am a Has... |
| 30.12.2010 | VentureBeat’s top 10 VC startup fundings in 2010 | It was the best of times, it was the worst of times — at least for Silicon Valley startups in 2010. While many smaller, lesser known newbies languished as venture capital investments declined overall, those that did score, scored big, and h... |
| 29.12.2010 | Union Square secures $135 million of new fund | Fred Wilson's top-tier New York City venture capital firm looking to raise $200 million fund
Union Square Ventures has secured $135 million of a new $200 million fund titled Union Square Ventures Opportunity Fund LP, according to an SEC fil... |
| 28.12.2010 | Twitter investor Union Square could be aiming for later-stage deals | Union Square Ventures, the New York City firm that was an early investor in Twitter, is raising a new $200 million fund, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
It looks like Fortune’s Dan Primack was the first to... |
| 28.12.2010 | Good Summary Of The FCC's Open Internet Rules | Barbara van Schewick, Director of Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, and a leading academic voice in the Net Neutrality debate, has a good blog post about the FCC's adoption of Open Internet Rules last week. I've been tr... |
| 28.12.2010 | Union Square Ventures Is Raising A New $200 Million Opportunity Fund | Update 1/15/11: Union Square ended up raising $165 million for this fund. More info here.
Union Square Ventures is raising $200 million for a new fund called the Union Square Ventures Opportunity Fund LP. According to an SEC filing, the VC ... |
| 17.12.2010 | Tumblr brings in $30M despite stability woes | It looks like it’s easy enough to forget about 24 hours of downtime.
Lite blogging service Tumblr has raised $30 million in a recent round of funding that includes the likes of Sequoia Capital, according to a recent filing with the Securiti... |
| 13.12.2010 | In Search Of Open Internet Access | Our regular programming, MBA Mondays, is being interrupted this week for a public service announcement.
The net neutrality debate is front and center again. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski has announced that he will ask the FCC to adopt rul... |
| 03.12.2010 | What you need to know - Friday 12/3/10 | Mingleverse raised $1.4M; 10gen $6.5M; WhaleShark Media $90M; Amazon invests $175 in Living Social
Amazon has made a partnership with LivingSocial, which also included a hefty investment by Amazon. Amazon invested about $175 million in Livi... |
| 03.12.2010 | Big data draws big money as IA Ventures raises $50M fund | Roger Ehrenberg, a former Wall Street investor, launched IA Ventures earlier this year to invest in startups that leverage “big data”. Now that big data is attracting big cash from limited partners as the fund has raised $50M, Dan Primack o... |
| 03.12.2010 | Funding roundup - week ending 12/03/10 | 10gen, Awarepoint, Betterment, ClickFox, CloudBees, LivingSocial, Payvment, Standing Cloud, and more
Early-stage
Online investing service Betterment has raised a $3 million Series A financing round led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with par... |
| 02.12.2010 | 10gen takes home $6.5M | The open-source software company is backed by Sequoia Capital
10gen, the maker of open-source database MongoDB, announced Thursday that it has closed a $6.5 million round of funding led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from Flybridge ... |
| 25.11.2010 | Thanks For Entrepreneurs | It's Thanksgiving. And I woke up thinking about entrepreneurs. It was probably this awesome Steve Blank blog post that caused that. Steve says:
I believe that we will look back at this decade as the beginning of an economic revolution as im... |
| 24.11.2010 | What you need to know - Wednesday 11/24/10 | Facebook has trademarked 'face'; Svpply raised $550,000; Scale Computing $17M; SAP settles for $1.3B
Tasty Labs, a new start up from the former founder of Delicious, Joshua Schachter, Nick Nguyen, the former director of add-ons for Mozilla ... |
| 24.11.2010 | Delicious founder raises $3M to put “the useful back in social software” | Joshua Schachter, the founder of social bookmarking startup Delicious, is working on a stealthy startup called Tasty Labs, and the company just raised $3 million in funding from two big-name firms — Union Square Ventures and Andreessen Horo... |
| 24.11.2010 | Joshua Schachter's new social startup Tasty Labs gets funding from Union Square Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz. | Redeem now
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| 18.11.2010 | Blog plug-in Zemanta scores $3M as it heads towards profitability | Blog plug-in Zemanta has raised $3 million in venture capital as it attempts to bring “semantic” blogging to the rest of the world, the company said Wednesday.
London-based Zemanta bills itself as “Your Blogging Assistant.” It lets bloggers... |
| 16.11.2010 | Third fund for Union Square Ventures looks likely, but size is always an issue | Well-known venture capital investor in Twitter and Foursquare, Union Square Ventures, is raising a third fund likely to be somewhere in the neighborhood of $500 million, peHUB reports. That’s more than twice the size of its $156 million sec... |
| 09.11.2010 | Twilio raises $12M to let you call a computer with telephone-to-web technology | Twilio, which provides software to connect phone calls to web applications, announced today that it has raised $12 million in its second round of funding to bring additional engineers on staff and continue marketing its services.
The San Fr... |
| 13.10.2010 | Twitter's Patent Strategy: Don't Bother. | Twitter co-founder Evan Williams predicted yesterday that the social media company will hit a billion users in time. It seems like wishful thinking if you look at the company's traffic trend lines, but there's no question that Twitter is bi... |
| 21.09.2010 | Tumblr lead developer leaves to work on his own company | Tumblr chief technology officer Marco Arment said he has left the company to work on his own startup, Instapaper. His comments came in an e-mail to VentureBeat today.
While he has left Tumblr as an official executive, Arment (pictured left)... |
| 17.09.2010 | Tumblr flies past Posterous in lite-blogging race | Tumblr and Posterous both provide users with the ability to blog without all that much effort. But as similar as the two “light blogging” platforms are, Tumblr is the favorite among casual members of the blogosphere, according to traffic da... |
| 07.09.2010 | Blog platform Tumblr’s soaring traffic brings growing pains | Tumblr, a social media network made up of millions of personal and business blogs, is seeing massive traffic growth, but is undergoing equally big growing pains.
Activity on the network of Tumblr blogs skyrocketed over the first half of the... |
| 01.09.2010 | TechStars Comes to the Big Apple | In what’s bound to be a boost for an already thriving tech startup scene, the Boulder-based incubator TechStars announced today that it is opening a program in a new location, New York City. This will be the fourth city into which the progr... |
| 12.08.2010 | Regulation strangulation | A regulated Internet is a frightening thought to entrepreneurs and the ecosystem around them
I've written a bit about net neutrality on this blog in the past few years. Every time I do, I hear about problems with regulating the Internet. Th... |
| 12.08.2010 | Why Net Neutrality is Critical to Startups & Innovation | Net neutrality has been in a the news recently due to rumors, speculation and interpretation surrounding Google and Verizon’s newly proposed legislative framework for the enforcement of net neutrality. The key principal behind net neutralit... |
| 12.08.2010 | Regulation Strangulation | I've written a bit about net neutrality on this blog in the past few years. Every time I do, I hear about problems with regulating the Internet. The readers of this blog are a fairly "laissez faire" bunch. Guess what? So am I.
Som... |
| 31.07.2010 | Dave McClure's Investment Thesis | I’ve been a fan of Dave McClure since I met him some time ago. He has strong opinions, he shares them liberally, spices them up with foul language, and finds himself involved with a lot of interesting entrepreneurs and companies. In a nutsh... |
| 09.07.2010 | Facebook’s Zuckerberg, U.K. Prime Minister Cameron have a webcam chat | Maybe all diplomacy should be conducted this way — directly on webcam and out in public.
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg and U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron followed up on their meeting in London last month with a video chat toda... |
| 01.07.2010 | Bilski and Patent Reform | Those us of who are ardent supporters of patent reform were hoping that the Supreme Court's opinion on the Bilski case would strike down the notion of business method patents, the worst kinds of patents out there and a huge tax on the innov... |
| 29.06.2010 | Linking To Google Maps | I have a recurring issue with Google Maps that I'd like to get everyone's take on. Either I don't know how to use the service properly or there is a missing feature I'd like to see Google fix.
When I do a search in Google Maps, like "9... |
| 27.06.2010 | Nations And Networks | I was reading the NY Times today on the excellent Editors Choice App on the iPad and came across this line in a piece by Scott Shane:
“We’re still focused on the nation and not the network,” said John Arquilla, professor of defense analysis... |
| 14.06.2010 | Work Market | This is a cross posting of a blog post I wrote this morning on the USV blog.
We are big believers in the power of Internet marketplaces to bring efficiencies and new opportunities to people and businesses. And the market where this has the ... |
| 12.06.2010 | Platforms As Governments | My partner Brad wrote a very interesting essay on the USV blog this week that I'm not sure got enough attention. In it he asserts that we should be looking at big tech platforms like Apple, Facebook, Twitter, and Craigslist as governments. ... |
| 09.06.2010 | Passing It On | Yesterday evening as I was leaving the office, I stopped in our conference room where Andrew was walking Christina though a liquidation model. Andrew was drawing a graph of proceeds by class of stock on the whiteboard. I wish I had pulled o... |
| 08.06.2010 | A new member of the USV team | Like many of you, I began reading the Union Square Ventures blog because of Albert, Brad, and Fred’s open discussions of the disruptions caused by new technology. I’ve since learned a tremendous amount both from reading the posts and commen... |
| 19.05.2010 | VCs Voice Opinions as Carried Interest Debate Nears Conclusion | The United States Congress, which has been debating the issue of carried interest and capital gains tax for quite some time now, may be inching towards a solution as a vote is expected on the issue some time this week. As we’ve discusses as... |
| 17.05.2010 | Business Plan Competitions: Valuable Tool or Waste of Time? | Entrepreneur and professor Steve Blank authored a blog this morning that expressed his opinion that business plan competitions are useless to startup culture and should be scrapped for business model competitions. Business plan competitions... |
| 13.05.2010 | Venture Capitalists Chime In About the “Agile Board” | The great thing about following the hundreds of venture capitalist bloggers is that every now then when one of them writes a rather poignant entry, several other VCs will latch on and provide their opinions on their blogs or in comments. Su... |
| 11.05.2010 | One Search Engine, All Your Messages: Silentale Launches Public Beta | Silentale, the new web service that backs up and archives your contacts and messages from all the communication platforms you use, has now launched into public beta as of this morning. The online application is part universal inbox, part so... |
| 06.05.2010 | Stack Overflow | As a consumer of information on the internet, I often find myself doing a variety of long tail searches on esoteric topics that relate to some niche part of my life. Whether it be trying to remember the way to reprogram a keyless entry clic... |
| 05.05.2010 | StackOverflow | StackOverflow announced yesterday that our firm Union Square Ventures led a $6mm round of financing in their company yesterday. My partner Brad is joining Stack's board and he will post about this investment on usv.com sometime this week. H... |
| 04.05.2010 | All-Star Team Backs StackOverflow to Go Beyond Programming Questions | They say raising venture capital is a young man’s game. Joel Spolsky is a very logical exception to that rule and will announce today that his question and answer site for computer programmers, StackOverflow, has raised $6 million from some... |
| 04.05.2010 | Stack Overflow raises $6M to take its Q&A model beyond programming | Stack Overflow, a site where users can find answers to programming questions, has raised $6 million in a first round of funding. The money comes a group of big-name investors led by Union Square Ventures, with participation from angel inves... |
| 03.05.2010 | Want more women in tech? Girls, just do it. And everyone, quit the patronizing | This is a guest post by Eileen Burbidge (@eileentso) , an early-stage tech angel/investor and advisor. This is part one of a three part series she is writing on her blog. Currently establishing White Bear Yard in London for technology innov... |
| 27.04.2010 | Hiring | Last week I told Mark Josephson, CEO of Outside.in, that I have a greater appreciation for the hard hiring work all of you entrepreneurs do right now.
Yesterday all of the investment professionals in our firm sat in a conference room for se... |
| 23.04.2010 | Does Facebook deserve to own the Web? Maybe not | Facebook announced several new features this week at its F8 conference showing grand ambitions to become the authoritative source for people’s identities online. However, a recent report from research security experts at VeriSign iDefense, ... |
| 23.04.2010 | Does Facebook deserve to own the Web? Maybe not | 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!
Facebook announced several new features this week... |
| 22.04.2010 | Time Warner invests in Simulmedia’s targeted TV promotions | New York media marketing startup Simulmedia announced it had raised $8 million in a second round of financing. Time Warner Investments led the round while previous investors Union Square Ventures and Avalon Ventures also participated.
Simul... |
| 22.04.2010 | Hulu could bite into users’ wallets with freemium “Hulu Plus” | Significant changes may be in the works over at Hulu, a website for watching television shows online owned by media giants News Corp., NBC Universal and the Walt Disney Co., according to a Los Angeles Times blog post. The company may start ... |
| 22.04.2010 | Hulu could bite into users’ wallets with freemium “Hulu Plus” | 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!
Significant changes may be in the works over at H... |
| 16.04.2010 | Hiring Update | Since we posted about hiring on Monday, we have received well over 400 applications. Based on a first pass we are completely blown away by the diversity and level of talent! Unfortunately, we don’t stand a chance of giving these application... |
| 16.04.2010 | Talent Overload | On Monday, our firm, Union Square Ventures, announced that we are hiring two people to join our firm for two years. Since Monday, we've received over 400 applications for the two jobs and they continue to come in like a firehose.
We are inc... |
| 12.04.2010 | We Are Hiring At Union Square Ventures | We've got a post up on the Union Square Ventures blog explaining our hiring plans. We are looking for two people who want to spend the next two years at our firm. One will be an analyst position and requires no previous work experience but ... |
| 01.04.2010 | Make Those Web Apps Run Fast! (Or At Least Fake It) | Back in February at the Future of Web Apps (FOWA) conference in Miami, Union Square Ventures‘ Fred Wilson presented on his 10 Golden Principles of Successful Web Apps. For those not fortunate enough to attend the conference, a video and tra... |
| 24.03.2010 | Bidding Andrew Goodbye | I'm on vacation this week and trying to keep work to a minimum. And I've got a post up on the USV blog today bidding goodbye to our colleague Andrew Parker. So I simply going to link to that post.
It's an interesting post because in additio... |
| 23.03.2010 | Bidding Goodbye to Andrew | Four years ago this summer, Andrew Parker joined Union Square Ventures. Brad wrote this post welcoming Andrew to our firm and explaining how we found him through his blog and ours.
And today I get the task of announcing that Andrew is leav... |
| 26.02.2010 | In Hindsight: When VC Associates Misread the Landscape | When a startup entrepreneur tells the story of his/her mistakes and how they’ve corrected them, it’s endearing. When an investment associate for one of the more prestigious VC firms does it, it’s surprising.
Union Square Ventures’ Andrew Pa... |
| 23.02.2010 | VC Explains How Damaging Software Patents Can Be | Despite claims that no VCs would ever invest in companies without patents, we’ve been seeing more and more VCs moving over to the side of recognizing that patents are more often hindering their portfolio companies rather than helping them —... |
| 19.02.2010 | Software patents are the problem not the answer | Nathan Myhrvold and I have exactly the same goal. We’d both like to promote useful innovations that have a positive social impact. But we have very different opinions about how to do it. Nathan believes the patent system is the answer, and ... |
| 19.02.2010 | Permissionless Innovation and Patents | My partner Brad Burnham wrote a post today explaining why he disagrees with Nathan Myhrvold's recent Harvard Business Review piece in defense his patent holding company,Intellectual Ventures.
In the post, Brad talks about the power of "... |
| 09.02.2010 | Twilio | While everyone was on the holiday break at the end of last year, Twilio wrote a blog post that very few people noticed. They announced that our firm, Union Square Ventures, had become an investor in Twilio.
Twilio is not a services for the ... |
| 02.02.2010 | Top Ten VC Firm Websites By Traffic | Larry Cheng, Managing Partner at Volition Capital recently put together a list of the top VC blogs according to traffic. On that list, Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures is the top VC blogger, followed by Guy Kawasaki of Garage Technology... |
| 24.01.2010 | How To Find a Great Startup Mentor | If you’re an early-stage entrepreneur and this is your first startup company, you are not alone. Thousands are toiling over code in the hopes that their product will gain users and revenue. The problem with being someone who can build a gre... |
| 12.01.2010 | Well Respected VC Firm Comes Out In Favor Of Independent Invention Defense Against Patent Infringement Lawsuits | Seeing as we were just talking about claims from a patent attorney that no legitimate VCs can be against software patents, it’s good to see that one of the most respected VC firms in internet-related issues, Union Square Ventures has come o... |
| 11.01.2010 | Why We Need An Independent Invention Defense | My partner Brad wrote an impassioned plea for an "Independent Invention Defense" for patent infringement claims. He starts his post with this observation.
Almost a third of our portfolio is under attack by patent trolls. Is it pos... |
| 07.01.2010 | Plant More Seeds vs Tending The Crop | One of the questions facing venture capitalists in the internet/web sector is how big a portfolio is optimal. The economics of internet/web startups means the capital requirements for each investment are often lower and the best ones get pr... |
| 05.01.2010 | 5 Great Blogs For Funding Advice | The best advice we can give you is to know your audience. You don’t try to sell booze to pregnant women, you don’t make God-jokes in Utah and you don’t get a term sheet without tailoring your pitch. Investors are already blogging about what... |
| 02.01.2010 | Areas Of Interest | A few days ago, I exchanged emails with a journalist friend. She said the following, "I'm just wondering which sectors/investment areas/types of start-ups you think will be exciting investments in 2010, and which you're staying away fr... |
| 20.12.2009 | Trading Deals, A Lost Art? | Bijan wrote a good post yesterday called We Gotta Do A Deal Together in which he outlined the common practice of VC's showing each other investment opportunities. That's how I got to know Bijan. He showed us Tumblr. And we reciprocated with... |
| 16.12.2009 | Tenacity | Mark Suster (one of the best VC blogs) has a post up on Tenacity. He says:
Tenacity is probably the most important attribute in an entrepreneur. It’s the person who never gives up – who never accepts “no” for an answer. The world is filled ... |
| 08.12.2009 | Hyperlocal Goes Mainstream: CNN teams up with Outside.in | I've been interested in the hyperlocal blogging movement since I started blogging. Once you have your own printing press, you start thinking about what you might write about the place you live. And I've written about school sports, little l... |
| 07.12.2009 | CNN Backs Outside.in to Power News From Your Neighborhood | Outside.in is a hyper-local news aggregator and when they say hyper-local they mean it – the site captures news, blog posts and other resources right down to the neighborhood level. The company announced tonight that it’s raised a nice roun... |
| 25.11.2009 | Presentations vs Discussions | We've been doing our Union Square Sessions events for almost as long as our firm has been around. We pick a topic, like Hacking Eduction, that interests us and we invite about forty people to sit around a big open table and talk about the i... |
| 22.11.2009 | My LinkedIn Avatar | I saw this tweet from Charlie O'Donnell yesterday:
LinkedIn pulled avatars of @laughingsquid @fredwilson @hunterwalk and me down. Isn't our "professionalism" for our networks to judge?
It's true. Here's my LinkedIn profile this mo... |
| 13.11.2009 | Social Recruiting | I'm giving the keynote talk at the Social Recruiting Summit in NYC on Monday. I've been working on my presentation over the past few days and some themes are worth talking about.
1) Since we started Union Square Ventures in 2003/2004, we ha... |
| 11.11.2009 | Conferences (continued) | I don't like to go to conferences. I explained why in this post.
But every once in a while I do attend one. Ideally it's a smallish gathering on a specific topic that I am interested in.
I'm doing that over the next couple days in Denver at... |
| 02.11.2009 | Open source database company 10gen raises $3.4M | 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!
10gen, a New York database company with some well... |
| 02.11.2009 | Thematic vs Thesis Driven Investing | As the venture business has grown and matured, many firms have developed specific areas of focus. Our firm, Union Square Ventures, for example only invests in web services. I believe this is a good thing for both the investors in venture fu... |
| 02.11.2009 | Open source database company 10gen raises $3.4M | 10gen, a New York database company with some well-known customers and investors, has raised $3.4 million in a second round of funding.
The New York company developed MongoDB, an open source database for web applications that’s being used by... |
| 28.10.2009 | Swinging For The Fences | There has been a lot of talk about young entrepreneurs creating all the great companies; Gates, Jobs, Yang/Filo, Bezos, Dell, Brin/Page, Zuckerberg, etc, etc.
I agree that visionary young people are worth backing and we do a lot of that at ... |
| 21.10.2009 | Tracked.com | One of my all-time great moments as a web user was the launch of Yahoo! Finance. It was everything I had ever wanted as an investor, at least as a public market investor. I could not believe that all of it was free and in one place. I was a... |
| 10.10.2009 | Week in review: AVG’s new antivirus suite, Apple’s spat with the Chamber of Commerce | Here’s our rundown of the week’s tech and business news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days:
AVG launches its free antivirus suite as Microsoft crashes its party — “AVG Technologies has made itself ... |
| 05.10.2009 | Why Charles River Ventures sat out on Twitter’s latest round | When Twitter raised its most recent round of funding at $1 billion, a few players were conspicuously absent, including Union Square Ventures and Charles River Ventures.
Why did Charles River sit out? Size and strategy.
Charles River Venture... |
| 05.10.2009 | Why Charles River Ventures sat out on Twitter’s latest round | 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!
When Twitter raised its most recent round of fund... |
| 04.10.2009 | Virtual Goods For Good Causes | At our Hacking Philanthropy event a few years back we talked about all kinds of new philanthropic models that were emerging online. One model that did not come up in our brainstorming sessions was the sale of virtual goods for philanthropy.... |
| 01.10.2009 | Would First Round Capital move to New York City? | West Conshohocken and San Fransisco-based First Round Capital has announced it will be opening a new office in the 67th Ward.
Managing Director Josh Kopelman has made no secret about the firm’s affinity for the Big Apple, citing the success... |
| 09.09.2009 | Failure | Barack Obama said this in his "back to school speech":
you can’t let your failures define you – you have
to let them teach you. You have to let them show you what to do
differently next time
That's so true. It took me a while to l... |