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Code
Fred Wilson – Feb 6, 2024
USV participated in a seed financing of Code, which is building a global payments app on the Solana blockchain. Code announced the financing today on their blog. You can see a nice visualization of the Code payments experience here and [...] Read more
AI Aesthetics
Matt Mandel – Feb 1, 2024
The word “technology” comes from the Greek word techne, which refers to an art or skill or practice. Plato writes a lot about the concept, often making reference to artists such as flute players as canonical examples of those engaged [...] Read more
Training the Weird
Rebecca Kaden – Jan 30, 2024
We are entering a new age of consumer fun and function. AI is going to supercharge both the utility and entertainment of consumer products, introducing new form factors and experiences that feel made for me. As Jared wrote recently, we [...] Read more
Healthcare at the Edge
Andy Weissman – Jan 25, 2024
Co-authored with Jared Hecht USV invests at the edge of large markets being transformed by technological and societal pressures, and we believe that healthcare is at a transformational inflection point. At the edge we have a confluence of movements ranging [...] Read more
Investing at the Edge of Large Markets Under Transformative Pressure
Nick Grossman – Jan 23, 2024
Union Square Ventures turns 20 this year. Brad and Fred began to deploy the first USV fund in 2004. The dot com bubble had recently popped, modern smartphones hadn’t been invented, “social media” wasn’t a thing, and the first bitcoin [...] Read more
Weird
Jared Hecht – Jan 10, 2024
The proliferation of generative AI has opened up a brand new frontier of exploration for consumer internet entrepreneurs, particularly those looking to build new types of networks around social media and communications. When we talk about social media as it [...] Read more