A historical collection of our writing.
Liv JenksI’m excited to share that I’ve joined USV’s investment team as an analyst. Before this, I was a product manager at an early-stage women’s healthcare company, where I helped scale the care delivery platform to support over 100k patients and 500 providers. […] Read more
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Rebecca Kaden Albert WengerAndy Weissman
Nick Grossman
Fred Wilson
Michael Mignano
In 2012, USV led a Series A investment in Behance. Almost immediately after we invested, Behance’s co-founder and CEO, Scott Belsky, became a fixture within the USV community. Scott became an LP in our funds, frequently angel invested alongside us, and most importantly, served as an unofficial […] Read more
Nikhil RamanThree and a half years ago, I joined USV as an investor through the firm's analyst program. The analyst role is fixed-term, and nine months ago the team gave me the opportunity to stay on and move up in the firm as an Investment Partner. This seems worth sharing externally. It also seems like a […] Read more
In 2015, my partner Fred Wilson published a short blog post, Don’t Automate, Obliterate, on how USV thinks about startup investments. The post was based on a 1990 HBR article by Michael Hammer by the same name. Specifically, Fred and the rest of USV partners found that the best investments were in […] Read more
Infrastructure is one of the great accomplishments of human civilization. Early standout examples include the Roman road network and aqueducts and the even earlier sanitation systems of the Indus Valley Civilization. Modern life would be completely impossible without the extensive infrastructure […] Read more
Nikhil RamanOver the last 24 months, prediction markets have grown rapidly, consistently defied expectations, and quickly become an indelible part of our social and economic fabric. Prediction markets receive a lot of criticism, some warranted, but ultimately we believe these types of markets are important, […] Read more
