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USV 2022 Funds
Samson Mesele – Apr 28, 2022
Co-authored with Andy Weissman We are pleased to announce that we have raised two new funds: a $275M Core Fund and a $350M Opportunity Fund. The new funds will be our eighth early stage fund and our fourth opportunity fund, [...] Read more
Shift EV
Albert Wenger – Apr 20, 2022
Transportation is the sector with the largest CO2 emissions, accounting for 37% of total CO2 emissions from end-use sectors globally. A crucial strategy for the reduction of those emissions is the electrification of transportation. In that regard it is exciting [...] Read more
Slope
Hanel Baveja – Apr 15, 2022
Co-authored by Rebecca Kaden Even with the explosion of new digital payment options over the last decade, there is still a wide gap between the B2C and B2B payment user experience. On the consumer side, buy now pay later (BNPL) [...] Read more
2022 DEI Priorities
Lauren Young – Apr 12, 2022
Diverse teams build better businesses1. To further support this statement, we have found that aggregating data from 100+ scaling tech companies helps many of them level up their internal processes and support levers. For example, in 2020 we saw that [...] Read more
Brilliant Planet
Mona Alsubaei – Apr 6, 2022
Co-authored by John Buttrick Of the world’s 2,000 largest public companies, at least 21% now have net-zero commitments. For most of these companies, even with significant emissions reduction, carbon offsetting will be essential to achieving their goals. In fact, all [...] Read more
David Energy’s Series A
Hannah Murdoch – Mar 28, 2022
Co-authored by Rebecca Kaden Energy is a real-time commodities market. The grid must balance supply and demand minute-by-minute to avoid blackouts or surges. Big changes in supply (wind stops blowing) or demand (everyone turns on their AC) threaten to throw [...] Read more