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Joining Union Square Ventures
Samson Mesele – Apr 28, 2021
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 [...] Read more
Hacking Healthcare
Hanel Baveja – Apr 20, 2021
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 [...] Read more
soona
Rebecca Kaden – Apr 16, 2021
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 jewels to customers who couldn’t reach [...] Read more
Exploring Geothermal
Hanel Baveja – Apr 1, 2021
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 power [...] Read more
USV Algorand Transparency Statement, Q4 2020 & Q1 2021
Nick Grossman – Apr 1, 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 made its investment in Algorand, [...] Read more
Mitigating the Climate Crisis: An Overview
Albert Wenger – Mar 15, 2021
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 today’s [...] Read more