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Andy Weissman – Jun 27, 2017
A Google search for “apartment lease” returns 86 million results. Which makes sense. One of the constants in life is finding a place to live, and signing a long-term contract for that living place. That constant — that lease — remains in force even though changes in our lives may not line up neatly with that one- or two-year period. Many things happen to us while we are stuck with a long-term house or apartment lease: new job opportunities, new roommates or relationships, new family members, and so much more. Read more
The Riff
Andy Weissman – Mar 14, 2017
Today we have have posted The Riff #1 to Soundcloud (and soon to iTunes, Google Play and other places I suppose). The Riff is a 24 minute, unedited single conversation about one topic with one person who knows something about [...] Read more
Numerai
Andy Weissman – Dec 12, 2016
Today, we're excited to announce that USV is leading the Series A round of financing in Numerai’s management company. Read more
Nurx
Andy Weissman – Oct 24, 2016
Nurx is a service that today prescribes and delivers medication from a mobile app and in doing so is redefining the doctor-patient relationship and the practice of primary care. We are announcing today that USV had led the company's latest round of financing. Read more
People
Andy Weissman – Oct 21, 2016
Much ado is all I see And feel like it's surrounding me The crowd intrudes all day 'Til I'm finally swept away A few weeks ago I had the extreme privilege of going to a meeting in Washington, D.C. at [...] Read more
People
Andy Weissman – Oct 20, 2016
The blockchain and its evolving ecosystem and community (Joel and I called it “True Believers” the other day) are a wonderfully smart, intense, focused, weird, open, fun group of people. Almost across the board. Some are capitalists, some may not [...] Read more
Hillary Clinton for President
Brad Burnham , Fred Wilson , Andy Weissman , John Buttrick and Albert Wenger – Oct 4, 2016
This is the fourth presidential election during the existence of Union Square Ventures and the first one in which we as a firm feel compelled to endorse a candidate: Hillary Clinton. As investors in technology companies, we believe that technology [...] Read more
USV Opportunity Fund, circa 2016
Andy Weissman – Jul 18, 2016
Over five years ago USV launched its first “Opportunity Fund” - a pool of capital meant as a complement to the core activities of our early stage funds. A few years thereafter, in 2014, we raised a second Opportunity Fund. [...] Read more
The Reordering of Medicine
Andy Weissman – Jun 14, 2016
The nature of the way we interact - or desire to interact - with medicine and our medical care is starting to change fundamentally. This is less about the unbundling of medicine (which may also be happening) but instead the [...] Read more