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Foursquare Checks In
Albert Wenger – Apr 11, 2013
Today Foursquare announced that it has raised $41 million coming from its existing investors (including USV) and adding Silver Lake's Waterman Fund. This puts the company in a great position to continue executing at the intersection of local, mobile and [...] Read more
Kitchensurfing
Andy Weissman – Apr 3, 2013
What's in your kitchen? Probably a stove, sink, running water, oven, refrigerator, cutlery and other utensils, sometimes a microwave oven. Precisely the same things as every commercial restaurant kitchen. Every kitchen is indeed an ad hoc restaurant waiting to happen. [...] Read more
Sift Science
Albert Wenger – Mar 18, 2013
As more and more economic activity moves online, fraud is never far behind. Online fraud is in many ways more attractive to criminals as it can be committed at a safe distance from its targets and scales far better. It [...] Read more
Hailo
John Buttrick – Feb 5, 2013
We're excited to announce today that USV led the recent round of financing in Hailo, the e-hail company based in London and New York. Hailo is rapidly becoming a global platform for regulated taxi service and we are delighted to [...] Read more
Behance Joins Adobe To Scale Creative Network
Albert Wenger – Dec 20, 2012
Earlier this year we invested in New York based Behance. We had known and followed Scott and the team for several years and kept an active dialog about the network of creatives that they have been building. As it turns [...] Read more
Visualizing our Investments
Fred Wilson – Nov 30, 2012
Union Square Ventures is a thesis driven firm. We don't really invest in the consumer web, networks, mobile, the cloud, or any specific technology. We invest in the disruption of the global economy caused by the increasing liquidity of information [...] Read more