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Joining USV – Nikhil

Nikhil Raman – Mar 2, 2023

I am incredibly excited to be joining Union Square Ventures as an analyst on our investment team. Prior to USV, I was part of the founding team at Daffy, where I helped build a fintech tool focused on increasing charitable [...] Read more

Joining USV – Grace

Grace Carney – Mar 2, 2023

I’m excited to be joining Union Square Ventures as an analyst. I started out my career at Bain, where I spent a significant amount of time running investment diligence on a range of growth-to-late stage technologies across consumer, enterprise, fintech, [...] Read more

Joining USV – Matt

Matt Mandel – Mar 2, 2023

I’m thrilled to be starting at USV as an analyst on our investment team. I’m joining USV from AeroFarms, a startup building vertical farms around the world. During my time there, I wore a bunch of different hats, ranging from [...] Read more

Building Out the Climate Capital Stack

Albert Wenger – Feb 16, 2023

Co-authored by Mona We recently announced that we have started to invest from our second climate fund. Much like our first climate fund this is an early stage fund, making initial investments at the seed and Series A stages. Generally [...] Read more

Hume AI

Andy Weissman – Jan 26, 2023

Bob Dylan’s song Like A Rolling Stone contains the famous chorus: "How does it feel?" This line heralded a generation of music, art, and science that tackled the messiness and complexity of human feeling with an intensely directed focus. The [...] 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