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Learning & Development at USV
Bethany Crystal – May 15, 2019
A few years ago, in a survey of 500+ employees across USV portfolio companies, we were surprised to see questions about best practices in management and leadership bubbling to the top. When we asked people what they expected to spend [...] Read more
Carta Act III
John Buttrick – May 6, 2019
In October 2014 we were fortunate to lead the Series A financing in a company then called eshares. At that point the company was offering cap table management services for private companies in the cloud, at the time a novel idea. About [...] Read more
Free Learning
Dani Grant – May 2, 2019
There is an aptitude test that measures creativity by asking people to name use cases for objects such as a paper clip. People who score in the genius category not only come up with many use cases for a paper clip, they [...] Read more
Joining Union Square Ventures
Gillian Munson – Apr 30, 2019
I am delighted to announce that I have joined Union Square Ventures partnership. What started a few months ago as a catch up breakfast with my friend Andy Weissman, became a series of conversations with the amazing USV team and [...] Read more
USV 2019 Funds
Albert Wenger – Apr 30, 2019
We are pleased to announce that we have raised two new funds. The 2019 Core Fund has commitments of $200 million (up slightly from our last few core funds which were $175 million) and the 2019 Opportunity Fund is at [...] Read more
Code Climate Velocity 2.0
Albert Wenger – Apr 24, 2019
About a year ago Code Climate announced its Velocity offering which provides engineering insights. Today they are taking the wraps off Version 2.0 for everyone. Existing customers have already had access to many of the new features. I am writing about this today [...] Read more