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Our Investment in Possible
Gillian Munson – Oct 20, 2020
Co-authored by Hanel Baveja 91 million Americans struggle to access money when they need it, often resulting in excess cost and low credit scores. Sadly, this is big business. This consumer group pays $106 billion in fees each year for short-term [...] Read more
Making Butter with Jam
Nick Grossman – Oct 20, 2020
At its best, building a product with others is a joyful, magical process. It’s like being on a championship team and getting into the zone. Or hosting an epic jam session where the band comes together and music flows like [...] Read more
USV Algorand Transparency Statement, Q3 2020
Nick Grossman – Oct 2, 2020
As part of an ongoing effort to bring transparency and clarity to the Algorand project, we are continuing to publish regular transparency statements on our Algorand holdings and activities. Entities and financial relationships: USV’s has made its investment in Algorand, [...] Read more
Sora
Rebecca Kaden – Oct 1, 2020
Co-authored by Hannah Murdoch USV’s education portfolio is built around the idea of changing a system from the outside in. By going directly to learners with products and platforms that offer high quality experiences for free or at accessible price [...] Read more
Outschool’s Series B
Rebecca Kaden – Sep 18, 2020
In the post about USV’s initial investment in Outschool 16 months ago, I wrote about the dramatic need for innovation in an education system that looked effectively the same as it did 50 years ago. While the internet had altered [...] Read more
Mental Healthcare 3.0 Part 2
Hanel Baveja – Sep 10, 2020
Part 2: Four Ideas for 3.0 In Part 1 of this series, I wrote about the transition from 2.0 to 3.0 in mental healthcare technology and why we are paying attention to it. What might it look like to create [...] Read more