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Shippo
Albert Wenger – Sep 9, 2016
Take a look around you, chances are, pretty much everything you see has been shipped, often multiple times, in order to get there. Transport of goods is a massive industry. Global parcel shipping alone is worth $300 Billion. With the shift [...] Read more
Hello!
Jennifer Campbell – Aug 29, 2016
I'm Jennifer, one of the new analysts on the Investment Team at Union Square Ventures! Before joining USV, I studied statistics and computational biology at Harvard, and then worked at a hedge fund after graduation. I'm particularly interested in new financial/banking [...] Read more
Hello From a New Analyst
Jacqueline Garavente – Aug 29, 2016
Hi all! My name is Jacqueline Garavente and I’m excited to introduce myself as one of two new analysts joining the investment team here at USV. Prior to this, I worked in the AI sector at IBM Watson and a [...] Read more
Fat Protocols
Joel Monegro – Aug 8, 2016
Note: see the 2020 follow-up post here: Thin Applications Here's one way to think about the differences between the Internet and the Blockchain. The previous generation of shared protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP, SMTP, etc.) produced immeasurable amounts of value, but most [...] Read more
USV Opportunity Fund, circa 2016
Andy Weissman – Jul 18, 2016
Over five years ago USV launched its first “Opportunity Fund” - a pool of capital meant as a complement to the core activities of our early stage funds. A few years thereafter, in 2014, we raised a second Opportunity Fund. [...] Read more
Payjoy
John Buttrick – Jul 12, 2016
Sometime in the late 90s I picked up my first mobile phone, a Motorola StarTAC. The sound quality wasn’t great but it was a radical change to no longer be tethered to a wireline. Next up was the Blackberry, which [...] Read more