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Location: United States, New York
Employees: 11-50
Founded date: 2003
Investment Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Pre-Seed; Seed; Series A; Series B; Series C; Series D
Portfolio 223
| Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
| 18.09.2026 | Common Fab... | commonfabric.com | - | - |
| 07.08.2026 | Pascal | pascal.trade | - | - |
| 21.07.2026 | Gritt Robo... | gritt.ai | $26M | United Sta... |
| 10.07.2026 | Super Paym... | superpayments.com | $27.23M | United Kin... |
| 10.07.2026 | Generalist | generalistai.com | $400M | - |
| 10.07.2026 | Consensus | consensus.app | $14.5M | United Sta... |
| 10.07.2026 | Electroflo... | eflowtech.com | - | United Sta... |
| 10.07.2026 | Rupa Healt... | rupahealth.com | - | United Sta... |
| 10.07.2026 | Unigrid | unigridbattery.com | $12M | - |
| 10.07.2026 | Sling | sling.money | $15M | - |
| 10.07.2026 | Volteras | volteras.com | $11.1M | United Kin... |
| 10.07.2026 | Kiosk | kiosk.app | - | - |
| 10.07.2026 | Presto | prestocharging.com | $15M | United Sta... |
| 10.07.2026 | SuppCo | supp.co | $5.5M | - |
| 10.07.2026 | Board | board.fun | - | - |
| 10.07.2026 | Dreambound... | dreambound.com | - | - |
| 10.07.2026 | Reservoir | reservoir.tools | $14M | - |
| 10.07.2026 | EfficientA... | efficient.computer | $16M | United Sta... |
| 10.07.2026 | Recall | recall.network | - | - |
| 10.07.2026 | Neynar | neynar.com | - | - |
| 10.07.2026 | Pluralis | pluralis.ai | $7.6M | - |
| 10.07.2026 | Glow | glow.org | - | - |
| 10.07.2026 | General In... | cofounder.co | - | United Sta... |
| 10.07.2026 | Daylight | daylight.xyz | $3M | - |
| 10.07.2026 | Supper | supper.co | $11M | - |
| 10.07.2026 | Humane Gen... | humanegenomics.com | - | United Sta... |
| 10.07.2026 | Lydian | lydianlabs.com | $12M | United Sta... |
| 10.07.2026 | Cactos | cactos.com | - | - |
| 10.07.2026 | fomo | fomo.family | $19M | - |
| 10.07.2026 | farcaster | farcaster.xyz | $150M | United Sta... |
| 10.07.2026 | Tutor Inte... | tutorintelligence.com | $34M | United Sta... |
| 10.07.2026 | Code | getcode.com | - | - |
| 07.07.2026 | alqem | alqem.ai | $9.15M | Germany |
| 06.06.2026 | Suno | suno.com | $775M | United Sta... |
| 30.03.2026 | Stedi | stedi.com | $50M | United Sta... |
| 09.03.2026 | Isembard | isembard.com | $59.34M | United Kin... |
| 18.09.2025 | Doctronic | doctronic.ai | $20M | - |
| 16.01.2025 | Tapestry | usetapestry.dev | $5.75M | - |
| 17.05.2024 | paragraph.... | paragraph.xyz | $6.7M | Poland, Le... |
| 17.05.2024 | Blixt | blixt.tech | $5.46M | - |
| 17.05.2024 | Anon | anon.com | $6.5M | - |
| 21.09.2023 | Daybreak H... | daybreakhealth.com | $14.8M | United Sta... |
| 19.05.2023 | Odyssey En... | odysseyenergysolutions.com | $94.34M | United Sta... |
| 06.05.2023 | Ostrom | ostrom.de | $36.08M | Germany, B... |
| 06.05.2023 | Blackbird | blackbird.xyz | $35M | United Sta... |
| 28.04.2023 | CarbonChai... | carbonchain.com | $10M | United Kin... |
| 21.04.2023 | Noya | noya.co | $11M | - |
| 08.02.2023 | Zeitview | zeitview.com | $115M | United Sta... |
| 05.02.2023 | Hume AI | hume.ai | $62.7M | United Sta... |
| 27.01.2023 | JourneyCli... | journeyclinical.com | $9M | United Sta... |
| 21.01.2023 | MOMBAK | mombak.com | - | Brazil, Sã... |
| 31.10.2022 | Lithos Car... | lithoscarbon.com | $6.3M | United Sta... |
| 31.10.2022 | Anthro | anthroenergy.com | $27.2M | United Sta... |
| 05.10.2022 | Molten Ind... | moltenindustries.com | $25M | United Sta... |
| 27.09.2022 | Zanskar | zanskar.com | $145M | United Sta... |
| 01.08.2022 | Stadium Li... | stadiumverse.com | $10M | Canada, On... |
| 28.07.2022 | Stadium Li... | stadiumliveapp.com | $10M | - |
| 19.07.2022 | XFuel | xfuel.com | $12.85M | Spain, Bal... |
| 10.05.2022 | Dapper Lab... | dapperlabs.com | $681M | Canada, Br... |
| 27.04.2022 | Shift EV | shift-ev.com | - | - |
| 07.04.2022 | Brilliant ... | brilliantplanet.com | - | United Kin... |
| 29.03.2022 | David Ener... | davidenergy.com | $64M | United Sta... |
| 23.03.2022 | Alife | alifehealth.com | $31.5M | United Sta... |
| 10.03.2022 | Radiant | radiantnuclear.com | $400M | United Sta... |
| 08.03.2022 | WalletConn... | walletconnect.com | $23.5M | Switzerlan... |
| 23.02.2022 | FloodMapp | floodmapp.com | $8.4M | Australia,... |
| 23.02.2022 | Parallel M... | parallelmarkets.com | $7M | United Sta... |
| 23.02.2022 | Ceramic | ceramic.network | $30M | - |
| 23.02.2022 | Polygon - ... | polygon.technology | $900.1M | India, Kar... |
| 23.02.2022 | Mundi | mundi.io | $15M | United Sta... |
| 23.02.2022 | m3ter | m3ter.com | $31.5M | - |
| 03.11.2021 | Sofar Ocea... | sofarocean.com | $39M | United Sta... |
| 21.10.2021 | Teamshares | teamshares.com | $245M | United Sta... |
| 28.09.2021 | Fiveable | fiveable.me | $12.43M | United Sta... |
| 14.09.2021 | Karat Fina... | trykarat.com | $96M | United Sta... |
| 14.09.2021 | Bright Mom... | cryptovenetians.com | - | - |
| 14.09.2021 | Bolt | revos.in | $4M | - |
| 14.09.2021 | TRANSMUTEX | transmutex.com | $33.07M | Switzerlan... |
| 28.08.2021 | Mindset | getmindset.com | $8.7M | - |
| 17.08.2021 | Dune Analy... | dune.xyz | $77.42M | - |
| 17.08.2021 | Remora | remoracarbon.com | $5.5M | United Sta... |
| 17.08.2021 | Viam, Inc. | viam.com | $105M | United Sta... |
| 17.08.2021 | Altbank | altbank.com.br | - | Brazil |
| 04.06.2021 | Zksync | zksync.io | - | Netherland... |
| 27.05.2021 | Addi | addi.com | $538.5M | Colombia |
| 16.04.2021 | soona | soona.co | $49.9M | United Sta... |
| 24.02.2021 | Agentero | agentero.com | $13.5M | United Sta... |
| 10.02.2021 | SmartHop | smarthop.co | $16.5M | United Sta... |
| 22.01.2021 | Caretaker | caretaker.com | - | United Sta... |
| 09.01.2021 | Blockstack | blockstack.org | $56M | United Sta... |
| 09.01.2021 | SilviaTerr... | silviaterra.com | $4.4M | United Sta... |
| 27.10.2020 | Jam.dev | jam.dev | $3.5M | France, Il... |
| 21.10.2020 | Possible F... | possiblefinance.com | $75.8M | United Sta... |
| 20.10.2020 | Sora Schoo... | soraschools.com | $2.7M | United Sta... |
| 05.10.2020 | PROPS by Y... | propsproject.com | $30M | - |
| 12.09.2020 | Headgum | headgum.com | - | United Sta... |
| 12.09.2020 | Stash | stash.com | $217.6M | United Sta... |
| 10.09.2020 | Bolster | bolster.com | $11M | United Sta... |
| 03.06.2020 | Numerai | numer.ai | $55.5M | United Sta... |
| 17.01.2020 | Leap | leap.energy | $20.2M | United Sta... |
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Persons 14
| Date | First Name | Last Name | Title | Location | |||
| - | Jessica | Schaeffer | Venture Pa... | linkedin.c... | - | i**o@usv.c... | - |
| - | Albert | Wenger | - | linkedin.c... | - | a****t@usv... | - |
| - | Brad | Burnham | Managing P... | linkedin.c... | - | B**d@usv.c... | - |
| - | Andy | Weissman | Managing P... | linkedin.c... | twitter.co... | a**y@usv.c... | Madagascar... |
| - | Fred | Wilson | Partner | linkedin.c... | - | f**d@usv.c... | - |
| - | Michael | Mignano | - | twitter.co... | - | - | |
| - | Anne | Mui | Executive ... | linkedin.c... | - | a**e@usv.c... | - |
| - | Lauren | Young | Network | linkedin.c... | - | l****n@usv... | - |
| - | The | Librarian | - | twitter.co... | - | - | |
| - | Jared | Hecht | - | twitter.co... | - | - | |
| - | Nick | Grossman | General Pa... | linkedin.c... | - | n**k@usv.c... | - |
| - | Matt | Cynamon | - | twitter.co... | - | - | |
| - | Jess | Oynick | - | twitter.co... | - | - | |
| - | Grace | Carney | - | twitter.co... | - | United Sta... |
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News 520
| Date | Title | Description |
| 08.07.2026 | Data At The Edge | Many of the most critical data sets are the ones that we have long been unable to access or interpret. Value on the internet has largely compounded through data loops that continuously strengthen with scale. A product or platform collects d... |
| 23.04.2026 | Glif | What does it mean to have a genuine point of view in the age of AI? The models, yes, can be extraordinary. Yet it often seems like something else is broken or missing. Creating can mean bouncing between a dozen tools, managing prompts acros... |
| 20.11.2024 | Collaborative Intelligence | Humans are not simple creatures. Although we like to present ourselves as coherent wholes to the outside world, on the inside, we’re divided. Marvin Minsky argues in The Society of Mind that minds are composed of smaller agents, each with s... |
| 07.05.2024 | Scale is All You Need? | 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 as a way of representing semantic similarity; the attention mechanism for contextualization... |
| 29.04.2024 | Our Investment in Anon | In the original designs for the World Wide Web, there was a clear line drawn between the services people interacted with (websites), and the software they used to access those websites (browsers). An important distinction was that while the... |
| 04.04.2024 | The Primitives Protocol | For over a decade now, USV has been eagerly anticipating the emergence of “Web3” alongside “crypto”. What we mean by this is that while blockchains and crypto assets are still viewed by the world at large as financial technologies, they are... |
| 20.03.2024 | Blixt | Existing electrical infrastructure is ill-suited to our current needs. It was developed for a world where we simply sent firm AC power from centralized power plants to end-customers. Today, however, electricity flows multi-directionally, as... |
| 29.02.2024 | The Fragmentation of Search | The market structure for Search is currently being reshaped. Horizontal and LLM-based “search agents” like ChatGPT and Perplexity are placing unprecedented pressure on search engines like Google. Cracks are beginning to form, from which new... |
| 22.02.2024 | Vertically Integrated and AI-First | Co-authored with Jared Hecht A new pattern is emerging that we are excited about at USV: entrepreneurs are upgrading physical industries with an AI-first and vertically integrated approach. Instead of selling software to industry incumbents... |
| 06.02.2024 | Code | USV participated in a seed financing of Code, which is building a global payments app on the Solana blockchain. Code announced the financing today on their blog. You can see a nice visualization of the Code payments experience here and you ... |
| 01.02.2024 | AI Aesthetics | The word “technology” comes from the Greek word techne, which refers to an art or skill or practice. Plato writes a lot about the concept, often making reference to artists such as flute players as canonical examples of those engaged in a t... |
| 30.01.2024 | Training the Weird | We are entering a new age of consumer fun and function. AI is going to supercharge both the utility and entertainment of consumer products, introducing new form factors and experiences that feel made for me. As Jared wrote recently, we are ... |
| 25.01.2024 | Healthcare at the Edge | Co-authored with Jared Hecht USV invests at the edge of large markets being transformed by technological and societal pressures, and we believe that healthcare is at a transformational inflection point. At the edge we have a confluence of m... |
| 23.01.2024 | Investing at the Edge of Large Markets Under Transformative Pressure | 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, modern smartphones hadn’t been invented, “social media” wasn’t a thing, and the first bitcoin transa... |
| 10.01.2024 | Weird | The proliferation of generative AI has opened up a brand new frontier of exploration for consumer internet entrepreneurs, particularly those looking to build new types of networks around social media and communications. When we talk about s... |
| 04.01.2024 | Joining Union Square Ventures | I am delighted to share that I have joined USV as a Venture Partner in NYC where I will lead new investments, help to support founders in our portfolio, and work with the USV team as we evolve our thesis. I have spent the entirety of my car... |
| 03.01.2024 | NFTs Have Evolved, NFTs Endure | USV started playing with NFTs in 2017. First when Rare Pepes were starting to gain some niche popularity and then again when cryptokitties launched. Shortly after that exploration, we invested in the team behind cryptokitties and wrote: We ... |
| 21.12.2023 | Web3 Compensation and Hiring | This post was co-written with Tom Dils and Calder Zwerling. A version of the post also appears on the Variant website Earlier this year, Variant and USV conducted an extensive web3 compensation survey of our portfolio companies. Our goals w... |
| 13.12.2023 | Making Energy Programmable | We’ve previously written about the storage gap. The proliferation of solar has led to an abundance of energy when the sun is out and a dearth when it’s not. Batteries help address this gap by storing excess energy in times of plenty and dis... |
| 15.10.2023 | Open Source, the AI stack, and need for permissionless experimentation | An obvious observation: open-source software has been an integral part of software development for decades. This collaborative approach enables developers across the world to work together on projects in a decentralized manner. Making sourc... |
| 13.10.2023 | Statement on Israel | We have been devastated all week by what is going on in Israel. Our colleagues in the venture capital industry drafted the statement below and asked us to sign onto it. We have, and are strongly aligned with it. Venture Capital Community S... |
| 03.10.2023 | Paying attention to the climate crisis | In March of this year, the IPCC reported that global surface temperature for the years 2011-2020 had reached an average of 1.1°C higher than pre-industrial levels. This unequivocally came as a result of human activity, principally through t... |
| 18.09.2023 | Chamber | Today we’re excited to announce our investment in Chamber, a new service for securely holding digital assets. One of the challenges for crypto adoption is the perception that it is unsafe. Research by Pew found “75% of Americans who have h... |
| 08.08.2023 | Daybreak’s Series B | Over the last several years, USV has built out both our thesis and portfolio around tackling the mental health crisis. Our investments have broadly broken down into three groups: Broadening access to care by making it easier to find, recei... |
| 31.07.2023 | Mind the Storage Gap | Co-authored with Mark Khalil Deployment of renewables has been accelerating globally. In 2022, around 12% of electricity came from wind and solar, compared to less than 3% a decade ago. These resources offer access to low-cost clean energy... |
| 16.06.2023 | Hallucinations as a feature, not a bug | Co-authored with Grace Carney A few months ago Fred kicked off a conversation about what the “native” applications of AI technology will be. What are the new things or businesses that we can now build that weren’t possible before the curre... |
| 12.06.2023 | Tutors for Everyone | In 2009 we hosted a one day event we called “Hacking Education.” We brought together a diverse group that included game designers, principals from schools, and even homeschoolers. We were fortunate to have the late Sir Ken Robinson give ope... |
| 04.06.2023 | The Historic Fund | We are proud to announce our participation in the Historic Fund, a new initiative supporting HBCUs in the United States. We have invited a number of HBCUs to be limited partners in venture capital funds without having to invest their own ca... |
| 25.05.2023 | Odyssey | 3.5 billion people in the world do not have access to reliable electricity, and over $1T in renewable energy investments are needed in emerging markets in the next decade. Achieving this coverage can only happen if we can greenlight a large... |
| 10.05.2023 | AI Reliability and Building Trusted Brands | tl;dr: For increasingly capable AIs to gain widespread adoption, they will have to earn our trust by reliably doing what we want in the ways we want. Four promising areas for ensuring reliability and corrigibility in AI products are: refini... |
| 28.04.2023 | Trust and Artificial Intelligence | Trust is the core component of the USV investment thesis: “trusted brands that broaden access” is the opening description of our articulation. In a world of applications that are driven by artificial intelligence, we are now thinking about ... |
| 25.04.2023 | Joining the Venture Climate Alliance | At USV we intend to make a meaningful contribution to solving the climate crisis. In addition to making investments from our climate funds, we are committing to track, reduce and offset emissions at both the USV and portfolio levels. To amp... |
| 25.04.2023 | CarbonChain | Co-authored by Rebecca Kaden Of the world’s 2,000 largest public companies, at least 21% now have net-zero commitments. To fulfill these commitments, companies need to understand their full emissions. Despite increased efforts, there are s... |
| 19.04.2023 | AI Learning Summit | Last week USV and Reach Capital co-hosted the AI Learning Summit. We welcomed over 75 builders, founders, educators, students, and policy makers into our library for a day of demoing fresh projects and discussing the ways in which learning ... |
| 11.04.2023 | Noya | USV’s climate thesis is to “invest in companies and projects that provide mitigation for or adaptation to the climate crisis.” When it comes to mitigation, we believe that capturing carbon and sequestering it is a critical effort. Someone... |
| 02.03.2023 | Joining USV – Matt | I’m thrilled to be starting at USV as an analyst on our investment team. I’m joining USV from AeroFarms, a startup building vertical farms around the world. During my time there, I wore a bunch of different hats, ranging from working with e... |
| 02.03.2023 | Joining USV – Grace | I’m excited to be joining Union Square Ventures as an analyst. I started out my career at Bain, where I spent a significant amount of time running investment diligence on a range of growth-to-late stage technologies across consumer, enterpr... |
| 02.03.2023 | Joining USV – Nikhil | I am incredibly excited to be joining Union Square Ventures as an analyst on our investment team. Prior to USV, I was part of the founding team at Daffy, where I helped build a fintech tool focused on increasing charitable giving. Before th... |
| 16.02.2023 | Building Out the Climate Capital Stack | Co-authored by Mona We recently announced that we have started to invest from our second climate fund. Much like our first climate fund this is an early stage fund, making initial investments at the seed and Series A stages. Generally thes... |
| 26.01.2023 | Hume AI | Bob Dylan’s song Like A Rolling Stone contains the famous chorus: “How does it feel?” This line heralded a generation of music, art, and science that tackled the messiness and complexity of human feeling with an intensely directed focus. ... |
| 24.01.2023 | Journey Clinical’s Series A | The state of mental health in the US is abysmal. 1 in 5 American adults report suffering from mental illness–and nearly 1 in 3 between 18 and 25. A core piece of our thesis at USV focuses on broadening access to wellbeing, with mental healt... |
| 15.12.2022 | Mombak | Co-authored by Mona Emissions reduction alone is not enough to address the climate crisis. Carbon removal is an essential part of any solution. In fact, all IPCC 1.5c scenarios feature annual carbon removal at the gigaton level — somewhere... |
| 09.12.2022 | USV 2022 Climate Fund | We are pleased to announce that we have raised a new $200M Climate Fund. This is our second climate fund dedicated to investing in mitigation for and adaptation to climate change. Given the state of the climate crisis and the opportunity s... |
| 07.12.2022 | Ostrom | One of the pillars of the USV investment thesis is “trusted brands”, and a core component of brand trust is structural alignment. Structural alignment means that from a fundamental business model perspective, the company’s economics and inc... |
| 20.10.2022 | Lithos Carbon | Agriculture is both contributing to the climate crisis and being negatively impacted by it. According to the USDA, agriculture is responsible for more than 10% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. At the same time, changes in temperature and r... |
| 19.10.2022 | Anthro Energy | From the electrification of end-uses such as vehicles and heating to storage supporting intermittent renewables, many emission-reduction efforts rely heavily on lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries. But today’s batteries are not up to the task. T... |
| 06.10.2022 | Blackbird Labs | At USV, we are looking for applications that can bring hundreds of millions of users onto web3. As great as the decentralized finance and digital art applications of web3 are, they aren’t likely to get my mom or your mom onto web3. One are... |
| 04.10.2022 | Molten Industries | The first time I met Kevin Bush and Caleb Boyd was at their garage, conveniently located in Kevin’s backyard. In that small garage, their curiosity was massive. The two experimented with everything from producing green cement to building a ... |
| 06.09.2022 | USV Analyst Program 2022 | As we pre-announced a week ago, the time has come again for a new USV analyst cohort. This blog post lays out what the USV analyst program is and how you apply for it, including FAQs that we will update occasionally as the process unfolds. ... |
| 26.08.2022 | Zanskar | Co-authored by Albert Wenger. Geothermal energy is a vastly underdeveloped resource relative to its potential; just 0.1% of the Earth’s heat content could supply humanity’s total energy needs for two million years. It is also a great sourc... |
| 25.08.2022 | USV Analyst Program 2022: Heads Up | It is hard to believe but well over two years have passed since Hannah, Hanel and David joined us as analysts at USV (David left midstream to start Primitives and Mona joined us). This means we are about to kick off another analyst recruiti... |
| 18.07.2022 | Ghost’s Series A | Co-authored by Rebecca Kaden Excess inventory is one of the worst-kept secrets in ecommerce. Brands overproduce more than $500B of goods annually. In categories like cosmetics, less than 50% of inventory is sold within a 12-month window. S... |
| 13.07.2022 | XFuel | Co-authored with Nick Grossman Transportation, including road, rail, air, and marine, has a greater reliance on fossil fuels than any other sector. It accounts for 37% of CO2 emissions from end-uses. Electrification has been the preferred ... |
| 06.07.2022 | Investing in Climate Adaptation | Co-authored by Hanel Baveja, Mona Alsubaei The USV Climate Fund is focused on companies that provide mitigation for, or adaptation to, the climate crisis. Mitigation means drawdown of existing greenhouse gasses and reducing future emissio... |
| 28.04.2022 | USV 2022 Funds | Co-authored with Andy Weissman We are pleased to announce that we have raised two new funds: a $275M Core Fund and a $350M Opportunity Fund. The new funds will be our eighth early stage fund and our fourth opportunity fund, respectively. ... |
| 20.04.2022 | Shift EV | Transportation is the sector with the largest CO2 emissions, accounting for 37% of total CO2 emissions from end-use sectors globally. A crucial strategy for the reduction of those emissions is the electrification of transportation. In that ... |
| 15.04.2022 | Slope | Co-authored by Rebecca Kaden Even with the explosion of new digital payment options over the last decade, there is still a wide gap between the B2C and B2B payment user experience. On the consumer side, buy now pay later (BNPL) companies ... |
| 12.04.2022 | 2022 DEI Priorities | Diverse teams build better businesses1. To further support this statement, we have found that aggregating data from 100+ scaling tech companies helps many of them level up their internal processes and support levers. For example, in 2020 w... |
| 06.04.2022 | Brilliant Planet | Co-authored by John Buttrick Of the world’s 2,000 largest public companies, at least 21% now have net-zero commitments. For most of these companies, even with significant emissions reduction, carbon offsetting will be essential to achievin... |
| 28.03.2022 | David Energy’s Series A | Co-authored by Rebecca Kaden Energy is a real-time commodities market. The grid must balance supply and demand minute-by-minute to avoid blackouts or surges. Big changes in supply (wind stops blowing) or demand (everyone turns on their AC)... |
| 21.03.2022 | Alife’s Series A | Fertility treatment today is largely a blunt object approach to a highly personal moment. It begins with a one size fits most process designed to be adjusted on the edges over a series of cycles–for most women, 3-5. The good news is that fo... |
| 16.03.2022 | Climate Tech Investing in Emerging Markets (Part Two) | This post is written in collaboration with CrossBoundary, an investment firm unlocking capital for sustainable growth in underserved global markets. In January, I wrote about the case for climate tech investing in emerging markets. In addi... |
| 09.03.2022 | Radiant | USV’s Climate Thesis is to invest in companies and projects that provide mitigation for or adaptation to the climate crisis. One important way that we can both mitigate and adapt to the climate crisis is to use more nuclear energy. I wrote ... |
| 09.03.2022 | WalletConnect | For the original web to be widely adopted, people needed a web browser. This seems trivial today as every new computing device comes preloaded with one or more browsers. But early on this was a chicken and egg problem. There were a variety ... |
| 16.02.2022 | Ceramic | As my partner Brad noted in 2019, the first generation of the internet (aka “Web 1”) was built as a “stateless” system. In other words, data packets could be moved around the network, but the network itself couldn’t store them or create per... |
| 15.02.2022 | Shortwave | Email is one of the greatest communication tools ever invented – a universal, public system that enables written communication among all people, anywhere on the planet. It can handle simple, short messages and rich content of all kinds. It ... |
| 15.02.2022 | Mundi’s Series A | Co-authored by John Buttrick. Each year, Mexico exports over $325 billion of goods to the US alone. However, SMEs represent only a tiny fraction – just 10% – of this massive business opportunity. This is largely structural, as SMEs have ma... |
| 07.02.2022 | Floodmapp | Co-authored by Nick Grossman. Thanks to major advances in GPS technology and the proliferation of mobile phones, we are used to predicting the arrival of everyday items with incredible accuracy. You can watch a Domino’s pizza make its way ... |
| 07.02.2022 | m3ter | A core piece of USV’s thesis has long been around an enablement layer – the idea that horizontal tooling is essential to support growing ecosystems that sit on top. That belief has led to investments like Twilio, Shippo, Sift, Clarifai, and... |
| 03.02.2022 | Parallel Markets | Co-authored by John Buttrick In 2015, we invested in Carta (FKA eShares) and wrote, “Anyone who owns shares or options in a private company instinctively knows that cap table management remains frustratingly analog…The collection and manag... |
| 20.01.2022 | Climate Tech Investing in Emerging Markets (Part One) | This post is written in collaboration with CrossBoundary, an investment firm unlocking capital for sustainable growth in underserved global markets. I recently joined the USV team and as many investors and founders, I have been a long-time... |
| 06.12.2021 | Joining Union Square Ventures | Some of you in the USV network might know me. My USV journey started in March 2021. I worked on the USV climate fund while doing my MBA. This month, I’m officially joining the investment team full-time in New York. While I expect to continu... |
| 20.11.2021 | USV Algorand Transparency Statement, Q3 2021 | As part of an ongoing effort to bring transparency and clarity to the Algorand project, we are continuing to publish regular transparency statements on our Algorand holdings and activities. Entities and financial relationships: USV has ma... |
| 02.11.2021 | Sofar Ocean’s Series B | Co-authored by Rebecca Kaden There are over 4,000 satellites in orbit around the Earth today. Enabled by advances in IoT and distributed sensing in the last few decades, these satellites help us do everything from GPS navigation to weather... |
| 27.09.2021 | Fiveable’s Series A | Co-authored by Rebecca Kaden Inequities in our education system are well-documented. High-quality instructors, college prep classes, and affordable test prep materials are unevenly distributed. However, learners in today’s classrooms don’t... |
| 01.09.2021 | REVOS | Increased mobility is one of the great accomplishments of the industrial age. We can get to places much faster whether it is for work, to visit friends and family, for sightseeing, or to participate in an event. Those gains, however, have c... |
| 25.08.2021 | Bright Moments DAO | Yesterday, USV sent 500 ETH to the Bright Moments DAO and we got back one million Bright Moments DAO (BRT) tokens into our wallet. This is the third time USV has invested in a DAO and we will blog about the other two in the coming weeks. Th... |
| 25.08.2021 | Mindset | The original paparazzi is thought to be Tazio Secchiaroli, famous for his 1958 photograph of King Farouk of Egypt sitting in a cafe in Rome with two women, neither of them his wife. The former King tried to break Secchiaroli’s camera, cemen... |
| 16.08.2021 | Measurement in Market Making | In order to provide high-powered incentives in any economic market, you need an accurate and ongoing measurement of quality. For example, it’s difficult to imagine a financial system in which capital market participants cannot review audite... |
| 12.08.2021 | Dune Analytics | The amount of invention and creativity happening in crypto is head-spinning. Countless projects, protocols, apps, tokens, and communities are launching, layering, merging, forking and growing every day. It’s a lot to keep up with. Fortunat... |
| 09.08.2021 | Remora | In the US, medium and heavy duty trucks account for 70% of all freight transport and 6.5% of all GHG emissions. While emerging technologies like battery electric and hydrogen fuel cells have the potential to help decarbonize this sector, th... |
| 29.07.2021 | Transmutex | Electrification of transportation, heating, and various industrial processes is crucial to fighting the climate crisis. Of course that’s only true if we wind up generating that electricity without carbon emissions. Renewable energy, includi... |
| 28.07.2021 | Supporting Teams in their Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Efforts | Co-authored by Alex Gachanja As captured in USV Thesis 3.0, the potential to leverage networks is a core component of our investment criteria. Over the years, it has become clear that diversity within networks builds better businesses. Org... |
| 28.07.2021 | The Growing Demand for Clean Electricity | The availability of abundant and affordable energy is directly linked to the quality of life. Energy consumption of 100 GJ or more per capita appears to be a precondition to achieving a high degree of human development (the United Nations H... |
| 01.07.2021 | Karat | Co-authored by Hannah Murdoch Ten years ago, USV wrote about how technology was changing the way people funded their ideas and earned a living. Investing in Kickstarter, we noted: “Creative people will continue to produce amazing works. W... |
| 01.07.2021 | USV Algorand Transparency Statement, Q2 2021 | As part of an ongoing effort to bring transparency and clarity to the Algorand project, we are continuing to publish regular transparency statements on our Algorand holdings and activities. Entities and financial relationships: USV has ma... |
| 29.06.2021 | VIAM | “Danger, Will Robinson!” was one of the catchphrases of Robot Model B-9, mostly known simply as the Robot, in the 1960s TV Series Lost in Space. More than half a century later, we have plenty of industrial robots toiling away in factories a... |
| 07.06.2021 | Electrifying Buildings | This is one of several posts on new areas we are exploring for USV’s Climate Fund. Electrifying buildings will play a critical role in managing our carbon budget. Nearly 18% of global greenhouse gas emissions are attributed to powering res... |
| 03.06.2021 | Scaling Ethereum with zkSync | Ethereum has grown into an incredibly rich ecosystem, demonstrating the network effects that are possible when you combine wallets, developers, assets, liquidity, and layered protocols. As a result, we are getting our first glimpses of what... |
| 26.05.2021 | ADDI | Co-authored by Hanel Baveja While we are not the first to point this out, access to capital in Latin America remains a massive challenge. Financial infrastructure and tools are concentrated on the top earners, excluding the majority of the... |
| 04.05.2021 | alt.bank | For most of USV’s history, we focused on investments in North America and Europe. We are a small firm and there was more than enough opportunity in these regions. We also gravitated towards companies where it would be relatively easy to tra... |
| 29.04.2021 | Tokenized Natural Assets | This is one of several posts on new areas we are exploring for USV’s Climate Fund. Natural resources such as fertile land and healthy oceans are the ultimate foundations of the economy and civilization, and their protection and regrowth ar... |
| 28.04.2021 | Joining Union Square Ventures | I am delighted to join Union Square Ventures as General Counsel. I am joining the team at an exciting moment. We are pursuing many complex investments across our web and mobile, crypto and climate platforms; our team is thinking hard about ... |
| 20.04.2021 | Hacking Healthcare | In “Illness as Metaphor”, Susan Sontag wrote “Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship in the kingdom of the well and the kingdom of the sick…sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens ... |
| 16.04.2021 | soona | Co-authored by Hannah Murdoch The language of commerce has always been visual. Tiffany’s published their Blue Book in 1845, the first direct-mail catalogue in the United States. The publication distributed pages of the world’s finest jewel... |
| 01.04.2021 | Exploring Geothermal | This is one of several posts on new areas we are exploring for USV’s Climate Fund. Geothermal energy has massive potential: just 0.1% of the Earth’s heat content could supply humanity’s total energy needs for two million years. Geothermal ... |
| 01.04.2021 | USV Algorand Transparency Statement, Q4 2020 & Q1 2021 | As part of an ongoing effort to bring transparency and clarity to the Algorand project, we are continuing to publish regular transparency statements on our Algorand holdings and activities. Entities and financial relationships: USV’s has ... |
| 15.03.2021 | Mitigating the Climate Crisis: An Overview | Late last year, we announced the USV Climate Fund. At the time, we wrote that “[m]itigation is working on the causes of the climate crisis through either emissions reduction or drawdown of existing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.” In ... |
| 10.02.2021 | SmartHop’s Series A | The trucking industry is one of the oldest and most interesting in the US. It is also one I’ve always been fascinated by–partly because, for a couple of generations, it was where my family made their living. My paternal great grandfather, D... |
| 26.01.2021 | USV 2021 Fund | We are pleased to announce that USV has raised a 2021 Core Fund with commitments of $250 million. This Core Fund will complement our new Climate Fund and existing Opportunity Fund. This will be USV’s seventh early-stage venture fund since t... |
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| 14.09.2026 | В Лондоне откроется крупнейший со времен Второй мировой войны оборонный завод | В Лондоне откроется крупнейший со времен Второй мировой войны оборонный завод Британский стартап Isembard откроет в Лондоне крупнейший со времен Второй мировой войны оборонный завод. Четырехэтажное здание производства и штаб-квартира компан... |
| 09.09.2026 | Suno выпустил новое поколение музыкального ИИ в партнерстве с правообладателями | Музыкальный ИИ-стартап Suno представил новое поколение моделей v6, созданное в партнерстве с Warner Music Group, BMG и Believe. Пользователи смогут генерировать треки, вдохновленные музыкой артистов, участвующих в проекте. Использовать исхо... |
| 02.09.2026 | Odyssey Fuels Global Green Energy Shift with $74M Investment | Odyssey Energy Solutions raised $74M to scale its distributed renewable energy platform. This capital boost empowers solar installers in emerging markets. It bridges the financial gap for crucial projects. Funds support the surging electric... |
| 01.09.2026 | Odyssey Scoops Up $74M Financing Round | BOULDER, CO, Odyssey Energy Solutions, the leading platform for financing distributed renewable energy (DRE) projects in emerging markets, today announced $74 million in new financing. >> Click here for more funding data on Odyssey &... |
| 01.09.2026 | Odyssey Energy Solutions Raises $74M in Funding | Odyssey Energy Solutions, a Boulder, CO-based provider of a financing and procurement platform for distributed renewable energy (DRE) projects in emerging markets, raised $74M in funding. The round, which consisted of $27M in equity and $47... |
| 26.08.2026 | Generalist AI Raises $200M in Additional Series B Funding; Valued at $3 Billion | Generalist AI, a San Francisco, CA-based physical AI and foundational robotics startup, raised $200M in additional Series B funding. The raise brought the valuation to $3 billion and the total Series B funding to $600m. The extension was le... |
| 10.08.2026 | Isembard founder: We're a "politician's wet dream" | At the tail end of London’s Bakerloo tube line, heading towards a north-west London suburb called Harlesden, the whirring sound of manufacturing, from rotating electronic motors to cooling fans, can be heard. Here, trading parks, depots and... |
| 30.07.2026 | Lydian Raises $43M in Series A Funding | Lydian, a Boston, MA-based provider of synthetic aviation fuel production solutions, raised $43M in Series A funding. The round was led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures with participation from AP Ventures, Builders Vision, Congruent Ventures... |
| 29.07.2026 | Robotics startup Generalist AI is in talks to raise a new funding round at a $3 billion valuation | The hottest trade in venture capital may no longer be chatbots—it's robots. Robotics startup General AI is raising money in a round that could value it at 50% more than just a month ago, say people familiar with the deal. The discussions Ge... |
| 27.07.2026 | Gritt's Physical AI Revolutionizes Construction Automation | Gritt secured $32.4 million, including a $26M Series A, to deploy Physical AI in construction. Its robotic systems attach to existing equipment, automating strenuous tasks like material handling with precision. Designed for rugged outdoor s... |
| 25.07.2026 | Gritt Launches With $32.4M Pre-Seed & Series A | SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Gritt, the company building an intelligent system combining robotics and AI to accelerate the world's infrastructure buildout, launches with $32.4 million in pre-seed and Series A funding. >> Click here for more fu... |
| 21.07.2026 | Gritt Raises $26M to Expand AI-Powered Construction Robotics | Gritt Raises $26M To Scale AI Construction Systems Gritt raised $26 million, led by Obvious Ventures, to expand AI-powered infrastructure automation. Union Square Ventures and Active Impact Investments also participated, alongside existing ... |
| 21.07.2026 | Gritt Raises $32.4 Million To Build Physical AI Systems For Construction | Gritt has launched with $32.4 million in pre-seed and Series A funding to develop AI-powered robotic systems for large-scale construction sites. The financing includes a $26 million Series A led by Obvious Ventures. Union Square Ventures an... |
| 08.07.2026 | Agritech Leader Stenon Secures €18M: Revolutionizing Soil Management Against Fertilizer Crisis | Stenon secured €18 million ($20.5 million) in Series B funding. The German agritech innovator scales its real-time soil data platform. This combats surging global fertilizer costs. FarmLab empowers farmers. It offers immediate, precise nitr... |
| 07.07.2026 | alqem Raises €8 Million To Scale AI-Driven Materials Discovery Engine | alqem announced that it has raised €8 million in pre-seed funding to scale its AI-driven materials discovery engine. The round was co-led by UVC Partners and Union Square Ventures. The Munich-based deep-tech startup is building an AI platfo... |
| 06.07.2026 | Andercore erhält 30 Millionen – Stenon sammelt 18 Millionen ein – alqem bekommt 8 Millionen | Im #DealMonitor für den 06. Juli werfen wir einen Blick auf die wichtigsten, spannendsten und interessantesten Investments und Exits des Tages in der DACH-Region. Alle Deals der Vortage gibt es im großen und übersichtlichen #DealMonitor-Arc... |
| 02.07.2026 | Addi Raises $85M in Series D Funding | Addi, a Bogotà, Colombia-based provider of a commerce and financial services platform, closed its $85m Series D funding. The round was led by Citius, co-led by BTG Pactual, and included participation from GIC, Monashees and others. As part ... |
| 24.06.2026 | fomo Raises $75 Million Series B To Scale Global Consumer Trading App | fomo announced that it has raised $75 million in Series B funding to scale its social-first trading platform. The round was led by Index Ventures, with participation from Union Square Ventures and existing investor Benchmark. fomo is design... |
| 22.06.2026 | fomo Raises $75M in Series B Funding | fomo, a NYC-based provider of a trading platform, raised $75M in Series V funding. The round was led by Index Ventures with participation from Union Square Ventures and existing investor Benchmark. The company intends to use the funds to ex... |
| 15.06.2026 | Bezos's AI Empire Soars: Prometheus Hits $41 Billion, Robotics Arm Generalist AI Grows | Jeff Bezos's AI ventures boom. Prometheus, his AI startup, secured $12 billion in funding, reaching a $41 billion valuation. It focuses on AI for physical product design and manufacturing. Generalist AI, another Bezos-backed firm, now stand... |
| 12.06.2026 | Jeff Bezos-backed AI startup Prometheus hits $41 billion valuation after $12 billion funding round; details here | Prometheus, an artificial intelligence (AI) startup led by Amazon.com Inc founder Jeff Bezos, has secured a massive funding round, valuing the company at $41 billion. The mega venture firmly establishes the billionaire as a dominant force i... |
| 03.06.2026 | AI music startup Suno raises funding at $5.4 billion valuation | Synopsis AI music startup Suno has secured over 400 million dollars in funding, valuing the company at 5.4 billion dollars. This investment will help Suno develop new tools for its platform. The company is also working on partnerships with ... |
| 30.03.2026 | Doctronic Secures $40M, Propelling AI Healthcare Revolution | Doctronic, a New York City-based AI healthcare innovator, just secured $40 million in Series B funding, bringing its total capital to $65 million. This AI system legally practices medicine across all 50 states. It boasts 15x revenue growth,... |
| 30.03.2026 | Doctronic: $40 Million Raised For AI-Based Prescription Renewal And Autonomous Clinical Care Platform | Doctronic announced it has raised $40 million in a Series B funding round co-led by Abstract and Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from Union Square Ventures, Seven Stars, Mantis, and Tusk Ventures. The financing, the company’... |
| 30.03.2026 | Stedi Raises $50M in Series C Funding | Stedi, a Denver, CO-based developer of a cloud-native healthcare clearinghouse, raised $50m in Series C funding. The round was led by Addition, with participation from Stripe, Ribbit Capital, USV, First Round, BoxGroup, and Bloomberg Beta, ... |
| 29.03.2026 | Doctronic: $40 Million Raised For AI Healthcare Platform Expansion | Doctronic, a New York City-based provider of an AI system legally authorized to practice medicine in the United States, announced it has raised $40 million in Series B funding, bringing its total funding to more than $65 million. The round ... |
| 24.03.2026 | Doctronic Raises $40M in Series B Funding | Doctronic, a NYC-based provider of an AI system legally authorized to practice medicine in the United States, raised $40M in Series B funding. The round was led by Abstract and Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from existing i... |
| 10.03.2026 | Isembard Secures $50M to Revitalize Western Manufacturing Capacity | UK startup Isembard secured $50M Series A. It automates high-precision manufacturing for aerospace, defense, robotics. MasonOS software powers its network of owned and franchised factories. Expansion targets Europe, US. The company addresse... |
| 09.03.2026 | Industrial startup Isembard bags €43 million to scale software-powered factories for aerospace and energy sectors | London’s Isembard today announced that it has raised €43 million ($50 million) in Series A funding, less than 12 months after its Seed round in order to open 25 factories by the end of 2026, expand its engineering teams while launching into... |
| 09.03.2026 | Isembard: $50 Million Raised For AI-Powered Aerospace And Defense Factories | Isembard has raised $50 million in a Series A funding round to accelerate the rollout of AI-powered manufacturing facilities focused on high-precision components for aerospace, defense, energy, and robotics customers. The round was led by U... |
| 09.03.2026 | UK manufacturing startup Isembard secures $50M | A UK startup which has developed software to automate the manufacturing of key component parts for industries, including space, defence and robotics, has raised $50m in a Series A funding round, less than 12 months after its $9m seed round.... |
| 21.02.2026 | Efficient Computer: $60 Million Series A Closed For Energy-Efficient Processor Technology | Efficient Computer has raised $60 million in a Series A funding round to accelerate development of its ultra-efficient general-purpose processors designed for artificial intelligence and advanced computing workloads. The round was led by Tr... |
| 20.02.2026 | Space, energy and cyber venture rounds to highlight | Agile Space Industries This maker of in-space chemical propulsion systems has collected $17 million in Series A equity capital, a figure $2 million higher than the initial target with 70% of the financing from existing investors. Lockheed M... |
| 19.02.2026 | Efficient Computer Raises $60M in Series A Funding | Efficient Computer, a Pittsburgh, PA-based provider of energy-efficient general-purpose processors, raised $60M in Series A funding. The round was led by Triatomic Capital with participation from Eclipse, Union Square Ventures, Overlap Hold... |
| 18.02.2026 | Efficient Computer raises $60M to keep AI devices running for months on end Send us a News Tip EXTRACT THE SIGNAL FROM THE NOISE Cookies | Efficient Computer Co. says it’s going to make the dream of low-energy artificial intelligence computing a reality after raising $60 million in early-stage funding today. The Series A round was led by Triatomic Capital and saw participation... |
| 08.02.2026 | Forerunner: Govtech Platform Raises $39 Million To Build A System Of Record For The Built Environment | Forerunner, an AI-powered platform designed to help government agencies manage the built environment, has secured $39 million in funding to expand beyond floodplain management and deepen its role across core public-sector operations. The ra... |
| 06.02.2026 | Forerunner Raises $39M in Funding | Forerunner, a San Francisco, CA-based AI-powered platform for governments that manage their built environment, raised $39M in funding. The amount consisted of $26.3M in Series B led by Wellington Management and a previously unannounced $12.... |
| 01.02.2026 | MITO AI Secures $4.5M: Powering the Next Wave of AI-Driven Video Production | MITO AI secured $4.5M in funding. Lightspeed Venture Partners led the round. This capital fuels global expansion and development. MITO AI provides a revolutionary collaborative AI platform. It empowers video professionals across film, TV, a... |
| 30.01.2026 | MITO AI Raises $4.5M in Funding | MITO AI, a Madrid, Spain-based provider of a collaborative AI platform with the aim to ease how films, commercials, and music videos are made, raised $4.5M in funding. The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation fro... |
| 30.01.2026 | MITO AI: $4.5 Million Pre-Seed Funding Closed For Collaborative AI Video Creation Platform | MITO AI, a Madrid- and San Francisco-based startup building a collaborative platform for AI-native video creation, has raised a $4.5 million pre-seed round led by Paul Murphy at Lightspeed Venture Partners. The company said the financing in... |
| 30.01.2026 | Mito AI raises $4.5M to empower video professionals with AI tools Send us a News Tip EXTRACT THE SIGNAL FROM THE NOISE Cookies | Mito Films Inc., a collaborative platform bringing the power of artificial intelligence into the hands of video professionals, announced Thursday that it raised $4.5 million led by Paul Murphy at Lightspeed Venture Partners. Other funds suc... |
| 24.01.2026 | AI Geothermal Innovator Zanskar Lands $115M Series C | Zanskar, an AI-native geothermal energy company, recently secured $115 million in Series C funding. Spring Lane Capital spearheaded the round, joined by a diverse group of investors. This crucial capital propels Zanskar's ambitious plans. T... |
| 22.01.2026 | Munich Re Ventures backs Zanskar | Geothermal energy startup Zanskar Zanskar Founded: 2019 Headquarters: Provo, Utah, United States Total Funding: $157.23M See full company profile "> has raised a $115 million Series C as it looks to scale its AI-driven geothermal di... |
| 21.01.2026 | Zanskar Raises $115M in Series C Funding | Zanskar, a Salt Lake City, UT-based AI-native geothermal energy company, raised $115M in Series C funding. The round was led by Spring Lane Capital with participation from participation from Obvious Ventures, (who led the Series B), Union S... |
| 02.12.2025 | Tutor Intelligence: MIT Spinoff Raises $34 Million Series A To Scale AI-Powered Warehouse Robot Workforce | Tutor Intelligence, an MIT-born robotics company building AI-powered fleets of warehouse robot workers, announced it has raised a $34 million Series A round led by Union Square Ventures, bringing its total funding to $42 million. Additional... |
| 01.12.2025 | Tutor Intelligence raises $34M to scale fleet of AI-powered warehouse robots Building the virtuous cycle of real-world robot learning Send us a News Tip EXTRACT THE SIGNAL FROM THE NOISE Cookies | Tutor Intelligence Inc., a provider of artificial intelligence-powered warehouse robot workers, said today it has raised $34 million in early funding to accelerate the commercialization of its state-of-the-art intelligent robot fleet. The S... |
| 14.11.2025 | Teamshares To Go Public Through Live Oak V Merger Backed By $126 Million PIPE Financing | Teamshares announced plans to become a publicly listed company through a merger with Live Oak Acquisition Corp V in a transaction that is expected to accelerate the company’s scale as one of the largest tech-enabled acquirers of small and m... |
| 06.11.2025 | fomo Raises $17M in Series A Funding | fomo, a NYC-based company that builds a social-first crypto trading app, raised $17M in Series A funding. The round, which brought the total raised to date to $19M, was led by Benchmark, with participation from Luca Netz (CEO, Pudgy Penguin... |
| 18.09.2025 | Doctronic Secures $20M to Scale Personalized AI Doctor | What You Should Know: – Doctronic, the AI-native platform delivering fast, private, and personalized healthcare at scale, today announced a $20 million Series A round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from Union Square ... |
| 16.09.2025 | Doctronic: $20 Million Series A Raised To Advance Personalized AI Doctor Tech | Doctronic, a healthcare technology company built entirely around artificial intelligence, has announced that it has raised 20 million dollars in Series A funding. The investment round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with additional ... |
| 21.06.2025 | Ostrom's €20 Million Leap: Powering the Future of Green Energy | Ostrom, a Berlin-based digital green energy provider, has just made waves in the energy sector by securing €20 million in Series B funding. This investment is not just a financial boost; it’s a strategic partnership that aims to redefine ho... |
| 20.06.2025 | Berlin-based Ostrom raises €20 million to accelerate Germany’s smart energy capability | Ostrom, a German digital green energy provider, today announced a €20 million Series B funding to accelerate its nationwide rollout through subsidising smart meters for its customers, and to grow its innovative NeoGrid Virtual Power Plant. ... |
| 20.06.2025 | Ostrom raised €20M to accelerate Germany’s smart energy revolution | German-based Ostrom, a digital green energy provider committed to making energy smarter, fairer, and greener, raised €20 million in a Series B round, bringing total funding to over €40 million. Founded in 2021, Ostrom combines full transpar... |
| 16.06.2025 | Theresia Gouw se torna a primeira bilionária do venture capital nos EUA | Theresia Gouw tornou-se a primeira mulher bilionária do venture capital nos Estados Unidos. O patrimônio estimado em US$ 1,2 bilhão (R$ 6,68 bilhões) tem origem nos 15 anos em que atuou na Accel, gestora responsável por aportes iniciais no ... |
| 03.06.2025 | Wall Street's Balancing Act: Navigating Tariffs and Tech Triumphs | Wall Street is a tightrope walker, balancing between the weight of tariffs and the buoyancy of tech innovation. Recent events have stirred the pot, creating a cocktail of uncertainty and opportunity. The market's pulse quickens as oil price... |
| 01.06.2025 | Volteras Powers Up with $11.1M Series A Funding | In the fast-paced world of energy, data is the new oil. Volteras, a London-based data streaming platform, has just struck gold. The company secured $11.1 million in Series A funding, a significant boost to its mission of transforming the en... |
| 31.05.2025 | Volteras: $11.1 Million Raised For Energy And Mobility Data Platform | Volteras, a leading data streaming platform for the energy ecosystem, announced the close of its $11.1 million oversubscribed Series A funding round. This funding was spearheaded by Union Square Ventures and included participation from flee... |
| 30.05.2025 | Volteras Raises $11.1M in Series A Funding | Volteras, a London, UK-based data streaming platform for the energy ecosystem, raised $11.1M in Series A funding. The round was led by Union Square Ventures, with participation from fleet card providers Wex and Edenred, alongside existing i... |
| 29.05.2025 | USV's 'United for BP Control' Mission Takes Aim at India's Blood Pressure Epidemic | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Hypertension, the silent killer, now affects over 315 million Indians and continues to pose a major public health challenge due to low awareness, poor treatment adherence, and limited patient education. To tackle ... |
| 15.05.2025 | Stash Announces $146M Series H to Enable AI-Enhanced Financial Guidance | Listen to this article 0:00 / 0:29 1X BeyondWords Stash, the platform helping people build financial futures, announced that it has secured $146 million in a new Series H funding through a round led by Goodwater Capital, with participation ... |
| 13.05.2025 | Stash Secures $146 Million to Fuel Financial Empowerment | In the bustling heart of New York City, Stash has struck gold. The investment platform provider recently announced a hefty $146 million in Series H funding. This financial windfall, led by Goodwater Capital, is set to propel Stash into new ... |
| 13.05.2025 | Stash: $146 Million Series H Raised And $4.3 Billion AUM Milestone | Stash, a transformative platform helping millions build financial futures, announced that it has secured $146 million in an oversubscribed new Series H funding through a round led by Goodwater Capital, with participation from returning inve... |
| 12.05.2025 | Stash Raises $146M in Series H Funding | Stash, a NYC-based investment platform provider, raised $146M in Series H funding. The round was led by Goodwater Capital, with participation from returning investors Union Square Ventures, StepStone Group, Serengeti, and the University of ... |
| 04.05.2025 | CIV Launched With $210 Million Fund To Invest In Companies Reshaping Industries | CIV, an investment firm focused on backing and building transformative companies that transform critical industries, announced the closing of its inaugural CIV Fund One. This fund has been oversubscribed, with over $210 million in commitmen... |
| 27.03.2025 | “Wir sind stolz auf die Automatisierung unserer Geschäftsprozesse” | Das Berliner Startup Ostrom, 2020 von Matthias Martensen und Karl Villanueva gegründet, tritt an, um den “Strommarkt zu revolutionieren”. Der amerikanische Geldgeber SE Ventures, der von Schneider Electric unterstützt wird, sowie Altinvesto... |
| 11.03.2025 | Viam: $30 Million (Series C) Raised For Advancing Power Of Data And AI In The Physical World | Viam, the engineering platform for data, AI, and automation, announced $30 million in Series C funding. It was led by existing investor Union Square Ventures and participated in by Battery Ventures, Neurone, and other existing investors. Vi... |
| 06.03.2025 | Zeitview: $60 Million Secured For Advancing AI-Based Inspections Of Critical Infrastructure | Zeitview, a leader in visual AI for critical infrastructure, announced a capital raise of $60 million led by Climate Investment, with participation from current investors Valor Equity Partners, Union Square Ventures, Upfront Ventures, Eucli... |
| 04.03.2025 | Zeitview Secures $60M to Advance AI-Powered Inspections of Global Critical Infrastructure | After doubling growth to 200,000+ assets inspected across 80 countries in 2024, Zeitview accelerates investment in Insights, its Visual AI platform Climate Investment leads the capital raise, with participation from existing investors Zeitv... |
| 03.03.2025 | Viam Secures $30 Million to Propel AI and Data Integration in the Physical World | In the bustling heart of New York City, Viam has emerged as a beacon of innovation. The engineering platform, which melds data, AI, and automation, recently announced a substantial $30 million in Series C funding. This latest round, led by ... |
| 03.03.2025 | Viam Raises $30M in Series C Funding | Viam, a NYC-based engineering platform for data, AI and automation, raised $30M in Series C funding. The round, which brought total amount raised to $117M, was led by existing investor Union Square Ventures, with participation from Battery ... |
| 03.03.2025 | Viam Announces a $30 Million Series C to Continue Advancing the Power of Data and AI in the Physical World | Viam, the engineering platform for data, AI and automation, today announced $30 million in Series C funding, led by existing investor Union Square Ventures with participation from Battery Ventures, Neurone, and other existing investors. Via... |
| 07.02.2025 | Reservoir Raises $14M in Series A Funding | Reservoir, a US-based crypto startup, raised $14m in Series A funding. The round was led by Union Square Ventures with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Variant, Archetype, and 1kx. In conjunction with the funding, Nick Grossman, a part... |
| 07.02.2025 | Presto: $15 Million (Seed) Raised For EV Charging Platform | Presto – an all-in-one EV charging platform – announced that it has raised $15 million in seed funding from Union Square Ventures, Congruent Ventures, Powerhouse Ventures, and Jetstream. And through Presto’s app and APIs, fleets can find, c... |
| 19.01.2025 | Web3 Adoption: Reown Raises $13 Million to Build Onchain UX Platform | Reown (formerly known as WalletConnect) announced it has closed a $13 million Series B funding round. Known as the builders of the WalletConnect Network, Reown is leading the charge in improving onchain UX. The investment round was led by U... |
| 16.01.2025 | Reown: Onchain UX Platform Company Raises $13 Million (Series B) | Reown (previously known as WalletConnect) announced it has closed a $13 million Series B funding round. USV and 1kx led the funding round and it also included Global Digital Asset Holdings (a joint venture investment vehicle established by ... |
| 16.01.2025 | Tapestry Secures $5.75M Series A to Transform Solana-Powered Social App Development, Led by Union Square Ventures and Fabric Ventures | New York, USA, January 16th, 2025, Chainwire With $12.5M total funding, Tapestry’s platform combines AI-powered creation with blockchain-based social infrastructure. Tapestry, a social infrastructure protocol for the Solana ecosystem, today... |
| 04.12.2024 | India Digest: Solar startup Glow raises $30m; Peak XV backs US-based AI startup | Solar energy startup Glow has raised $30 million in a fresh round of funding from venture capital firms Framework and Union Square Ventures. Separately, Peak XV Partners, which has most of its investments in India and Southeast Asia has bac... |
| 02.12.2024 | Sebamed's 'Project Skin Deep' Campaign Shows Proof of Real Beauty | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Sebamed’s latest campaign shows proof of beautiful skin, in never seen before images done for the first time in India In partnership with Leo Burnett, ‘Project Skin Deep’ boldly magnifies the unseen skin and boldl... |
| 26.11.2024 | Activate: New Board Members And $3.5 Billion Fellows Funding Milestone | Activate, a nonprofit fellowship where science entrepreneurs transform ideas into advanced hard-tech companies, announced a new funding milestone: Activate Fellows, current and alumni, have raised a cumulative $3.5 billion in funding for th... |
| 24.10.2024 | EU-Startups Podcast | Episode 92: Diyala D’Aveni, Head of Vento | In this episode, we catch up with Diyala D’Aveni, Head of Vento, an Italian venture capital firm backed by Exor Ventures that focuses on discovering exceptional founders with the ambition to build great companies and supporting them from pr... |
| 18.10.2024 | SuppCo Raises $5.5M in Seed Funding | SuppCo, a New York based startup that helps people find health supplements, manage routines, and track health, reportedly raised $5.5m in seed funding. The round was co-led by Union Square Ventures and True Ventures, with participation from... |
| 15.10.2024 | Ghost Raises $40M in Series C Funding | Ghost, a Los Angeles, CA-based B2B marketplace connecting brands and retailers, raised $40M in Series C funding. The round was led by L Catterton, a global consumer-focused investment firm, with participation from existing investors includi... |
| 15.10.2024 | Swell VC: Fund II Closed With $11.5 Million In Commitments | Swell VC, an early-stage venture capital firm investing in market-defining opportunities, announced it closed Fund II with $11.5 million in commitments. And the fund’s backers include a diverse mix of successful founders, family offices acr... |
| 26.09.2024 | David Energy: $23 Million Secured For Running The Grid On Clean Energy | Gridtech company David Energy announced that it has secured $23 million in funding to transform the retail energy market and make a clean energy grid a reality. This funding was led by Cathay Innovation, with participation from previous inv... |
| 13.09.2024 | These Female Founders And CEOs Raised The Biggest Rounds In 2024 | 6 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn When measuring funding to startups with female founders and CEOs, the perennial takeaway is that women remain underrepresented. Last year, for instance, just 3% of U.S. funding went to startups with ... |
| 07.09.2024 | The Regulatory Storm: Uniswap and the Crypto Frontier | The cryptocurrency landscape is a wild frontier. A place where innovation meets regulation. Recently, the New York State Attorney General, Letitia James, has turned her gaze toward Uniswap, a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform. This scru... |
| 04.09.2024 | VC Giants a16z, Union Square Ventures Get Subpoenaed by New York About Uniswap: Sources | New York State Attorney General Letitia James has joined a regulatory offensive against cryptocurrency trading platform Uniswap, according to internal communications regarding the NYAG subpoenas seen by CoinDesk and two people who are famil... |
| 22.08.2024 | Google’s Search Engine Fails Users: A Fraudulent Phone Number Crisis | In the digital age, trust is a fragile thing. Google, the titan of search engines, is facing a storm. Users are falling prey to fraudsters who exploit its platform. The result? A staggering loss of $100,000 for one unsuspecting victim. This... |
| 22.08.2024 | Consensus: AI-Based Scientific Research Search Engine Raises $11.5 Million (Series A) | Consensus, an AI-based search engine for scientific research, announced that it raised $11.5 million in new Series A funding. This funding round was led by Union Square Ventures, whose previous Series A investments include Twitter, Coinbase... |
| 19.08.2024 | Consensus raises $11.5M for AI research engine for scientific papers | Photo: sanjeri/Getty Images Consensus, an AI-enabled academic search engine for scientific research, raised $11.5 million in a Series A funding round led by Union Square Ventures. Perplexity lead investors Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman part... |
| 17.08.2024 | Sling: Money Transfer Service Secures $15 Million (Series A) | Sling Money, an app built to make the global transfer of money easier and low-cost, announced a $15 million Series A round led by Union Square Ventures, Ribbit Capital, and Slow Ventures. Sling Money had previously raised a $5 million seed ... |
| 14.08.2024 | Consensus Raises $11.5 Million in Series A Funding to Make the World's Scientific Research Discoverable and Consumable | Consensus Founders, Eric Olson (left) and Christian Salem (right) Celebrated VC Firm Union Square Ventures leads a Series A round along with Perplexity lead investors Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross in support of the AI Search Engine for Scie... |
| 05.07.2024 | Blixt Appoints Daniel Öhlander as Head of Sales and Marketing to Drive Global Expansion | Blixt Appoints Daniel Öhlander as Head of Sales and Marketing to Drive Global Expansion Fri, Jul 05, 2024 11:00 CET Report this content Blixt, a leader in software-defined solid-state power systems, proudly announces Daniel Öhlander as its ... |
| 26.06.2024 | Crypto Giants Notch Wins in Expensive Quest to Sway U.S. Politics – Without Mentioning Crypto | The crypto industry has been deploying a $169 million fund that's so far supported more than 20 congressional primary wins in the 2024 elections – including helping knock off an incumbent congressman in New York this week. The companies beh... |
| 21.06.2024 | "How the heck can you build a multi-billion dollar business in Düsseldorf?" questioned VC | Düsseldorf might not seem the most obvious startup hub but the German city has all the ingredients for a startup to flourish, according to one of its offspring startups. Raffael Johnen, CEO and co-founder of Düsseldorf-based digital lender ... |
| 20.06.2024 | UNIGRID Battery Charges Ahead with $12 Million Funding Boost | UNIGRID Battery, a San Diego-based company revolutionizing sodium-ion battery technology, has secured a hefty $12 million in Series A funding. Transition VC and Ritz Venture Capital spearheaded the investment, with Union Square Ventures and... |
| 19.06.2024 | UNIGRID Battery Closes $12 Million In Funding To Scale Up Production | UNIGRID Battery, a San Diego-based company developing advanced sodium-ion batteries, announced a successful closing of an oversubscribed $12 million Series A funding round. The funding was Co-led by Transition VC and Ritz Venture Capital an... |
| 24.05.2024 | Farcaster Secures $150M Funding to Revolutionize Decentralized Social Networking | Farcaster, a pioneering decentralized social network protocol startup, has recently announced a significant milestone by raising $150 million in new funding. This substantial investment will not only fuel the expansion of Farcaster's featur... |
| 21.05.2024 | Farcaster secures $150M to expand decentralized social networking features Your vote of support is important to us and it helps us keep the content FREE. One click below supports our mission to provid... | Decentralized social network protocol startup Farcaster said today it has raised $150 million in new funding on a $1 billion valuation to further grow its user base and add new in-protocol features such as channels and direct messaging. Fou... |
| 24.04.2024 | Anon is building an automated authentication layer for the GenAI age | As the notion of the AI agent begins to take hold, and more tasks will be completed without a human involved, it is going to require a new kind of authentication to make sure only agents with the proper approval can access particular resour... |
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