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Helium

One of the pillars of USV’s investment thesis 3.0 is “broadening access to capital”, and we often get asked what we mean by that.  While “capital” includes financial capital, we have always meant it more broadly, to include human capital, technology infrastructure [...]  Read more

Simulmedia

Those of you who have followed our history may remember that it was a shared angel investment in Dave Morgan’s pioneering Internet advertising company, TACODA, that led to the formation of Union Square Ventures, so we are doubly pleased to [...]  Read more

Seven to Ten Years

I have worked in three venture capital firms over the last thirty-three years and am intimately familiar with the performance of the fifteen (ish) venture funds raised and invested by these three firms. Much of what I have written about [...]  Read more

Vacation Insights

I just spent nearly two weeks in Israel and Jordan on a family vacation. We saw amazing sights and met fascinating people. More than with other travel, and maybe due to some recent reading, the trip crystallized three insights for [...]  Read more

Low (No) Barriers To Entry

There are a dozen electric scooter companies operating in Paris right now. There are so many that the Mayor just announced that she will reduce that number to three with new rules for electric scooters in Paris. But before we [...]  Read more

Fly Like A Bird

We arrived in Paris this morning and after dropping off our bags we walked to our favorite cafe for breakfast and on the way we passed a Bird scooter waiting patiently for a rider. We don’t yet have Bird scooters [...]  Read more

Getting Out Of Town

The Gotham Gal and I are going on vacation for a couple weeks. I will turn on my out of office responder and stop responding to most emails. I plan to continue to write here daily but the timing of [...]  Read more