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 ...

Today, we're thrilled to announce our investment in Paragraph, the leading platform enabling onchain publishing. Paragraph is joining forces with our...

Union Square Ventures turns 20 this year.  Brad and Fred began to deploy the first USV fund in 2004. The dot com bubble had recently popped, mod...