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Measurement in Market Making
Hanel Baveja – Aug 16, 2021
In order to provide high-powered incentives in any economic market, you need an accurate and ongoing measurement of quality. For example, it’s difficult to imagine a financial system in which capital market participants cannot review audited financial statements before making [...] Read more
Dune Analytics
Nick Grossman – Aug 12, 2021
The amount of invention and creativity happening in crypto is head-spinning. Countless projects, protocols, apps, tokens, and communities are launching, layering, merging, forking and growing every day. It’s a lot to keep up with. Fortunately, blockchains are (mostly) public data [...] Read more
Remora
Hanel Baveja – Aug 9, 2021
In the US, medium and heavy duty trucks account for 70% of all freight transport and 6.5% of all GHG emissions. While emerging technologies like battery electric and hydrogen fuel cells have the potential to help decarbonize this sector, they [...] Read more
Transmutex
Albert Wenger – Jul 29, 2021
Electrification of transportation, heating, and various industrial processes is crucial to fighting the climate crisis. Of course that’s only true if we wind up generating that electricity without carbon emissions. Renewable energy, including wind, hydro and solar will play a [...] Read more
The Growing Demand for Clean Electricity
Mona Alsubaei – Jul 28, 2021
The availability of abundant and affordable energy is directly linked to the quality of life. Energy consumption of 100 GJ or more per capita appears to be a precondition to achieving a high degree of human development (the United Nations [...] Read more
Supporting Teams in their Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Efforts
Lauren Young – Jul 28, 2021
Co-authored by Alex Gachanja As captured in USV Thesis 3.0, the potential to leverage networks is a core component of our investment criteria. Over the years, it has become clear that diversity within networks builds better businesses. Organizations with diverse [...] Read more