Let’s explore two themes we believe are deeply important at USV: the fragmentation of search and broadening access to and accelerating our collective...
The most exciting web3 opportunities center around applications that will onboard many millions, and eventually billions, of users to cry...
Last April, USV joined the Venture Climate Alliance (VCA), a group of venture capital firms committed to achieving a rapid transition to net zero gre...
Over the past twenty years, internet-native entertainment companies across social media and gaming have been able to create large networks of engaged...
We believe that the transition from fossil fuels to clean energy will require a significant investment in energy storage and we have been looking for...
We are in the middle of two significant technological shifts happening simultaneously and also intertwined. AI and web3 may have different starting p...
It’s never been more difficult to tell whether what we see online is real or fake. AI bots are being paid to leave fake reddit comments, Drake resurr...
Last week, Farcaster announced their latest financing and USV announced its participation. As that blog post notes, USV has been thinking about and s...
In 2007 USV invested in Twitter and Zynga. Both of these companies taught us valuable lessons.Twitter demonstrated how open social networks could cha...
Progress in artificial intelligence has come in the form of a bag of tricks, some of which have proven to be unreasonably effective: word embeddings ...