By Rebecca Kaden & 5 othersAlbert WengerAndy WeissmanNick GrossmanFred WilsonMichael Mignano—Sep 15, 2026

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

By Albert Wenger—Jul 21, 2026

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

By Albert Wenger—Jul 6, 2026

The universe of potential materials is vast. To get a sense for just how big it is consider the following: we want to combine three different elements (drawn from a subset of the periodic table of say only 10 elements) into a new material. A naive first estimation would be that we have 10x10x10 = […] Read more

By Albert Wenger—Jun 4, 2026

Humanity has benefited greatly from mechanizing and automating previously manual tasks. There was a time when fields were hoed by hand. Then we invented the plow and later the tractor. Today with precision farm equipment we can have no-till planting, which retains and even builds topsoil, at scale. […] Read more

By Albert Wenger—Mar 25, 2026

There is a heated debate about what an AGI-level economy might look like. On one side are pessimists who foresee extreme wealth concentration and a permanent precariat: people with no meaningful economic role, dependent on whatever crumbs fall from the table of capital owners. On the other are […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)

By Albert Wenger—Mar 24, 2026

Are we in an AI bubble or not? As someone who lived through the dotcom bubble as an investor there are many parallels and also significant differences. By many metrics we are in obvious bubble territory with fantastically extended valuations and lots of roundtripping happening with NVIDIA at the […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)