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Tucows
Brad Burnham – Feb 6, 2017
Union Square Ventures has made a substantial investment in Tucows, a 23 year old company company that has been publicly traded for over 15 years. Since we have never before invested in a public company, that requires a bit of an explanation. Read more
Shippo and the Power of Abstraction: Introducing USPS ePostage
Albert Wenger – Jan 12, 2017
Our portfolio company Shippo today announced that it is now providing all customers with access to the United States Postal Service ePostage program. Shippo is the first company to have received such a license from the USPS since 1999. But [...] Read more
Blockstack Funding
Albert Wenger – Jan 6, 2017
We are excited to announce follow-on funding in our portfolio company Blockstack. Read more
Numerai
Andy Weissman – Dec 12, 2016
Today, we're excited to announce that USV is leading the Series A round of financing in Numerai’s management company. Read more
Nurx
Andy Weissman – Oct 24, 2016
Nurx is a service that today prescribes and delivers medication from a mobile app and in doing so is redefining the doctor-patient relationship and the practice of primary care. We are announcing today that USV had led the company's latest round of financing. Read more
Code Climate
Albert Wenger – Oct 6, 2016
We are excited to be investors in New York City-based Code Climate, which provides tools improve quality production of code. With Code Climate you can make quality improvement explicit, continuous, and ubiquitous, by incorporating source code analytics throughout the workflow of your entire development organization. Read more
Shippo
Albert Wenger – Sep 9, 2016
Take a look around you, chances are, pretty much everything you see has been shipped, often multiple times, in order to get there. Transport of goods is a massive industry. Global parcel shipping alone is worth $300 Billion. With the shift [...] 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
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