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A New Face for the USV Network
Bethany Crystal – Feb 18, 2016
Hi! I’m Bethany Marzewski, and I’m thrilled to be taking over Brittany’s position as the new network General Manager at Union Square Ventures. In this role, I’ll work with the great teams at USV’s 60+ portfolio companies to expand the [...] Read more
Veniam’s new round of funding
Brad Burnham – Feb 11, 2016
Our portfolio company Veniam announced today that they had closed a significant new round of funding led by Verizon Ventures. The funding will allow Veniam to deliver on the promise of "smart cities" by connecting thousands of vehicles in public and [...] Read more
Foursquare: Building the Business
Albert Wenger – Jan 14, 2016
We first invested in Foursquare in 2009 when the company was just getting going because we believed that location was a native aspect of smartphones. Since then our conviction about the importance of location to the mobile experience has continued [...] Read more
Introducing Koko
Brad Burnham – Dec 15, 2015
Last week, Farhad Manjoo of the New York Times mused in his column that the Internet was getting meaner: “If you’ve logged on to Twitter and Facebook in the waning weeks of 2015, you’ve surely noticed that the Internet now [...] Read more
USV Thesis 2.0
Andy Weissman – Dec 12, 2015
Union Square Ventures has always been a “thesis” driven firm. We maintain specific principles about the internet that guide our investment decisions. While other things like stage and to a lesser extent geography, also matter, our thesis or point of [...] Read more
SimScale
Albert Wenger – Dec 2, 2015
We are excited to announce our investment in Munich-based SimScale. SimScale makes complex engineering simulations, such as mechanical stress and fluid flows, available to anyone in the world with a web browser. These kinds of simulations were pioneered in the [...] Read more