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Rebecca Kaden and Hannah Murdoch – Oct 1, 2020
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 points, companies like Duolingo, [...] 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
Bolster Your Management Team And Board
Fred Wilson – Sep 9, 2020
I have had the great pleasure of working with Matt Blumberg and the senior leadership team of USV's former portfolio company Return Path (which was sold in 2019) for much of the last twenty years. Matt and and many members [...] Read more
Mental Healthcare 3.0
Hanel Baveja – Sep 1, 2020
Part 1: The 2.0-> 3.0 Transition If mental health technology was like language-learning solutions, we have been in the language CD and tapes phase for the last decade or so. The shift from language textbooks to CDs was a 1.0->2.0 [...] Read more
A Quick Update On Hiring
Matt Cynamon – Aug 13, 2020
Back in May we published a post on how COVID was impacting hiring across the portfolio. On its worst day, our job board had only 750 jobs available, down over 50% from earlier in the year. With open jobs in the portfolio now climbing above 1,000 for the first time since April, we thought we’d give a quick update on where things stand. Read more