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Fiveable’s Series A
Hannah Murdoch – Sep 27, 2021
Co-authored by Rebecca Kaden Inequities in our education system are well-documented. High-quality instructors, college prep classes, and affordable test prep materials are unevenly distributed. However, learners in today’s classrooms don’t have time to wait for systemic change. Educational equity [...] Read more
Dune Analytics
Nick Grossman – Aug 12, 2021
The amount of invention and creativity happening in crypto is head-spinning. Countless projects, protocols, apps, tokens, and communities are launching, layering, merging, forking and growing every day. It’s a lot to keep up with. Fortunately, blockchains are (mostly) public data [...] Read more
Hacking Education 2.0
Hannah Murdoch – Dec 18, 2020
More than ten years ago, USV hosted a small group of educators, entrepreneurs, activists, and investors for a day-long session called Hacking Education. In summarizing that discussion, our partner Brad described the group’s collective optimism about the role technology would [...] Read more
Sora
Rebecca Kaden – Oct 1, 2020
Co-authored by Hannah Murdoch USV’s education portfolio is built around the idea of changing a system from the outside in. By going directly to learners with products and platforms that offer high quality experiences for free or at accessible price [...] Read more
Outschool’s Series B
Rebecca Kaden – Sep 18, 2020
In the post about USV’s initial investment in Outschool 16 months ago, I wrote about the dramatic need for innovation in an education system that looked effectively the same as it did 50 years ago. While the internet had altered [...] Read more
No End of Computer History (Yet)
Albert Wenger – May 1, 2020
At USV we have been discussing a cooling internet universe for several years now. We have largely stayed away from backing strictly sales driven companies as they are exposed to competitors who can spend more money on sales and marketing. [...] Read more
What We’re Learning About How We Learn
Hanel Baveja and Hannah Murdoch – Apr 8, 2020
The rapid transition to remote schooling has supercharged trends in online learning -- it’s possible that 3-5 years of behavior change has been condensed into a few short weeks. More independent/self-guided learning has required not only a re-thinking of curriculum [...] Read more
The Education Transformation
Rebecca Kaden – Nov 18, 2019
10 years ago, in March 2009, USV hosted an event called Hacking Education. The team pulled together a group of operators, founders, and investors to talk about how to create transformation in education. Following the event, my partner Brad wrote [...] Read more
Recount Media
Fred Wilson – Oct 29, 2019
Eighteen months ago, I had breakfast with John Heilemann and he told me that his world, political media, was challenged in the shift from linear television (ie cable news) to real-time mobile (ie Twitter). He saw an opportunity to address [...] Read more