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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
USV 2016, LP
John Buttrick – Jun 22, 2016
This week, we will close our first investment in USV’s 2016 fund, which has total capital commitments of $175 million, the same size as our 2014 fund. This will be USV’s fifth early-stage fund. We continue to make new investments [...] Read more
Mediachain
Andy Weissman – Jun 1, 2016
"This picture of Justin Bieber getting choked at a nightclub looks like a Renaissance painting" This photograph, and its caption, were posted on Imgur on April 17th. It quickly made it to the front page of Reddit, ultimately garnering over [...] Read more