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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
Doubling Down on Slope
Rebecca Kaden – Sep 27, 2023
In April 2022, we wrote about our Series A investment in Slope, a B2B Buy-Now-Pay-Later (BNPL) platform creating an automated, zero-question, instantaneous underwriting platform for B2B installment loans and bringing a buttery experience to B2B payments that has previously been [...] Read more
Daybreak’s Series B
Rebecca Kaden – Aug 8, 2023
Over the last several years, USV has built out both our thesis and portfolio around tackling the mental health crisis. Our investments have broadly broken down into three groups: Broadening access to care by making it easier to find, receive, [...] Read more
Welcoming Liza Landsman to Stash
Rebecca Kaden – Feb 2, 2023
When I first met Brandon and Ed, Co-Founders of Stash, in 2016 it was clear that they were approaching the consumer fintech whirlwind with a different perspective. At the time an early app and idea, the goal was to build [...] Read more
Journey Clinical’s Series A
Rebecca Kaden – Jan 24, 2023
The state of mental health in the US is abysmal. 1 in 5 American adults report suffering from mental illness–and nearly 1 in 3 between 18 and 25. A core piece of our thesis at USV focuses on broadening access [...] Read more
Alife’s Series A
Rebecca Kaden – Mar 21, 2022
Fertility treatment today is largely a blunt object approach to a highly personal moment. It begins with a one size fits most process designed to be adjusted on the edges over a series of cycles–for most women, 3-5. The good [...] Read more
m3ter
Rebecca Kaden – Feb 7, 2022
A core piece of USV’s thesis has long been around an enablement layer – the idea that horizontal tooling is essential to support growing ecosystems that sit on top. That belief has led to investments like Twilio, Shippo, Sift, Clarifai, [...] 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
SmartHop’s Series A
Rebecca Kaden – Feb 10, 2021
The trucking industry is one of the oldest and most interesting in the US. It is also one I’ve always been fascinated by--partly because, for a couple of generations, it was where my family made their living. My paternal great [...] Read more