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Fred Wilson – Apr 11, 2023
USV's climate thesis is to "invest in companies and projects that provide mitigation for or adaptation to the climate crisis." When it comes to mitigation, we believe that capturing carbon and sequestering it is a critical effort. Someone once told [...] Read more
Blackbird Labs
Fred Wilson – Oct 6, 2022
At USV, we are looking for applications that can bring hundreds of millions of users onto web3. As great as the decentralized finance and digital art applications of web3 are, they aren’t likely to get my mom or your mom [...] Read more
Brilliant Planet
Mona Alsubaei – Apr 6, 2022
Co-authored by John Buttrick Of the world’s 2,000 largest public companies, at least 21% now have net-zero commitments. For most of these companies, even with significant emissions reduction, carbon offsetting will be essential to achieving their goals. In fact, all [...] Read more
Bright Moments DAO
Fred Wilson – Aug 25, 2021
Yesterday, USV sent 500 ETH to the Bright Moments DAO and we got back one million Bright Moments DAO (BRT) tokens into our wallet. This is the third time USV has invested in a DAO and we will blog about [...] 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
Transmutex
Albert Wenger – Jul 29, 2021
Electrification of transportation, heating, and various industrial processes is crucial to fighting the climate crisis. Of course that’s only true if we wind up generating that electricity without carbon emissions. Renewable energy, including wind, hydro and solar will play a [...] 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
Headgum
Hanel Baveja – Jul 23, 2020
When things are serious, we need humor more than ever. At this unique point in history, bringing more laughter and authenticity to a wider audience when many of us are aching for connection is vital. Our investment in Headgum is [...] Read more
CoverWallet, now an Aon company
John Buttrick – Jan 13, 2020
Last week CoverWallet, one of our portfolio companies, was acquired by Aon, one of the world’s leading companies focused on insurance. CoverWallet was launched in early 2016 by its co-founders Inaki and Rashmi to reinvent commercial insurance by leveraging technology, [...] Read more