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The Opportunity Fund

We founded Union Square Ventures in 2003 to invest in the applications layer of the web. Over the last seven years, we have refined that investment focus. We now invest almost exclusively in Internet services that create large networks. Some [...]  Read more

SoundCloud

The web has been largely a silent affair for its first fifteen years. Part of this is that the music industry has struggled with the web and what it means for its business model. Part of it is that podcasting [...]  Read more

Edmodo

Early in 2009 we organized a one-day event in New York which we called "Hacking Education" -- the idea was to bring together people from different fields for a discussion on how to disrupt and improve education using technology in [...]  Read more

10gen Fills The Tank

The team at 10gen has done an amazing job building and supporting MongoDB, a NoSQL database that supports both agile development and performance/scaling. This combination is particularly well suited to web development where frequent or continuous deployment are becoming the [...]  Read more

Tasty Labs

We are excited to be investing in Joshua Schachter's new company Tasty Labs (together with Andreessen Horowitz and a terrific group of angels). We enjoyed working with Joshua at Delicious -- in my case "working with" was literal -- and [...]  Read more