Union Square Ventures

Union Square Ventures (USV) is a venture capital firm based in New York City. It describes itself as a small, collegial partnership of generalist investors working across many sectors and technologies, with a consistent point of view on how to approach transformative opportunities. Its guiding thesis is to invest at the edge of large markets being transformed by technological and societal pressures, an approach it says has emerged over 20 years of investing in and supporting companies and protocols.

Union Square Ventures is a venture capital firm based in New York City. It describes itself as a small, collegial partnership of generalist investors working across many sectors and technologies. Its guiding investment thesis — investing at the edge of large markets being transformed by technological and societal pressures — is described as having emerged over 20 years of investing in and supporting companies and protocols that invent new forms of opportunity and solve important problems in new ways. The firm looks for the edge of large markets, technological and societal pressures, new behaviors and new business models, and networks. A 2011 characterization attributed to Brad Burnham summarized USV as investing in large networks of engaged users, differentiated by user experience, and defensible through network effects.

A small, collegial partnership of generalist investors investing at the edge of large markets being transformed by technological and societal pressures.

• 2022.03.09

  Reported2022.03.09

  WalletConnect completes $11 million Series A funding[3]WalletConnect完成1,100万美元A轮融资coinspeaker.com

  WalletConnect completed an $11 million Series A funding round led by Union Square Ventures and previous investor 1kx. The funds are intended to develop a decentralized Web3 messaging layer.

• 2022.01.11

  Reported2022.01.11

  Bolster announced $11 million Series B financing[4]Bolster宣布完成1,100万美元B轮融资prweb.com

  Bolster announced $11 million in Series B financing, led by Foundry and including participation from existing and new investors.

• 2021.10.15

  Reported2021.10.15

  Clarifai closes $60 million Series C funding round[5]Clarifai完成6000万美元C轮融资prnewswire.com

  Clarifai announced that it closed a $60 million Series C funding round led by NEA, with participation from existing and new investors. The company said the funds would be used to expand its sales, marketing, and engineering teams.

• 2021.09.28

  Reported2021.09.28

  Fiveable raises $10 million in Series A funding[6]Fiveable 完成 1,000 万美元 A 轮融资prnewswire.com

  Fiveable raised $10 million in Series A funding led by Union Square Ventures, with participation from Owl Ventures and other investors.

• 2021.04.16

  Reported2021.04.16

  soona closes $10.2 million Series A funding round[7]soona完成1,020万美元A轮融资tcbmag.com

  soona closed a $10.2 million Series A funding round. The article says the funding will help the startup scale its technology, open a distribution center, and hire employees.

• 2020.10.01

  Reported2020.10.01

  Sora closes $2.7 million seed funding round[8]Sora完成270万美元种子轮融资prweb.com

  Sora announced that it had closed a $2.7 million seed funding round led by Union Square Ventures. The company said it would use the capital for hiring and developing its educational program.

• 2020.01.30

  Reported2020.01.30

  SimScale closes €27 million Series C funding round[9]SimScale完成2700万欧元C轮融资finanznachrichten.de

  SimScale announced that it had closed a €27 million Series C funding round led by Insight Partners, with participation from existing investors. The company said it would use the investment to accelerate expansion of its cloud-based engineering simulation platform and grow global operations.

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1. 1Union Square Venturesusv.com
2. 2About Union Square Ventures | Union Square Venturesusv.com
3. 3WalletConnect完成1,100万美元A轮融资coinspeaker.com
4. 4Bolster宣布完成1,100万美元B轮融资prweb.com
5. 5Clarifai完成6000万美元C轮融资prnewswire.com
6. 6Fiveable 完成 1,000 万美元 A 轮融资prnewswire.com
7. 7soona完成1,020万美元A轮融资tcbmag.com
8. 8Sora完成270万美元种子轮融资prweb.com
9. 9SimScale完成2700万欧元C轮融资finanznachrichten.de