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APPLY NOW Two weeks ago we pre-announced that we would be kicking off a new Analyst program this year. USV has had analysts since the firm first started in 2004, and that post gives some helpful context on how the [...]  Read more

In the original designs for the World Wide Web, there was a clear line drawn between the services people interacted with (websites), and the software they used to access those websites (browsers). An important distinction was that while the websites [...]  Read more

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What does it mean to have a genuine point of view in the age of AI? The models, yes, can be extraordinary. Yet it often seems like something else is broken or missing. Creating can mean bouncing between a dozen [...]  Read more

More than a decade ago, I had the privilege of pitching USV when I was raising capital for the podcasting startup I was building at the time, Anchor. While I dreaded many fundraising pitches, I was excited for this one, [...]  Read more

We're thrilled to welcome Mike Mignano to the USV partnership. Mike has been part of the NYC ecosystem and a friend of USV for over a decade. Many of us first got to know him when he was raising capital [...]  Read more