Union Square Ventures

Union Square Ventures

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Investment Firm

Overview

Union Square Ventures is a private equity and venture capital firm focused on early-stage, growth capital, late-stage, and startup financing. The USV portfolio companies create services that have the potential to fundamentally transform important markets.

It exclusively invests in the internet world, focusing on the applications layer of the web, internet services, and web services that create large networks as well as the mobile sector. Some of its invested companies are based in New York, San Francisco, London, Berlin, and places in between. It typically makes a starting investment in portfolio companies of $1 million. In certain Series Around cases, the firm may make a starting investment between $2.5 million to $3 million. It typically invests up to $20 million in any single company.

Union Square Ventures was founded in 2003 and is based in New York, United States.

Highlights

Founded

2003

Industry

Financial Services

Employees

11-50

Investment

454

Lead Investment

193

Exits

59

Stages

Early Stage Venture, Seed, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity

Investor Type

Venture Capital

Location

New York, New York, United States, North America

Contact Information

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Union Square Ventures, established in 2003 and headquartered in New York, New York, United States, North America., specializes in Early Stage Venture, Seed, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity investments across Financial Services, Finance, Personal Finance, Venture Capital, Banking, Internet, Blogging Platforms, Podcast, Digital Entertainment, Insurance. The organization boasts a portfolio of 454 investments, with an average round size of $26.4M and 59 successful exits. Their recent investments include Wesabe, Oreilly AlphaTech Ventures, FeedBurner, Sutter Hill Ventures, DFJ Portage Ventures. The highest investment round they participated in was $1101.4B. Among their most notable exits are Wesabe and Oreilly AlphaTech Ventures. Explore their portfolio in detail, see who is connected to them, and find their contact information on our platform.

Employees

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Albert Wenger

Managing Partner

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Fred Wilson

Partner

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Brad Burnham

Partner

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Andy Weissman

Managing Partner

imagePlace Rebecca Kaden

Rebecca Kaden

General Partner

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Matt Cynamon

Network Program Manager

Investment portfolio

Union Square Ventures has made 454 investments. Their most recent investment was on Jun 20, 2024, when Molten Industries raised $25.0M.

Union Square Ventures has made 84 diversity investments. Their most recent diversity investment was on Mar 12, 2024, when Residua AI raised $1.7M.

investments

454

Diversity investments

84

Lead investments

193

Number of exits

59

Investments

454

Annouced DateOrganization NameIndustryMoney Raised
May 21, 2024
Farcaster Farcaster
Information Technology150.0M
May 30, 2024
Neynar Neynar
-11.0M
Jun 13, 2024
UNIGRID UNIGRID
Sustainability12.0M
Jun 20, 2024
Molten Industries Molten Industries
CleanTech25.0M

Exits

59

Funding Timeline

Funding rounds

454

Investors

0

Funds

15

Funding Rounds

454

Union Square Ventures has raised 454 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Jun 20, 2024 from a Series A - Molten Industries round.

Annouced DateTransaction NameNumber of InvestorsMoney RaisedLead Investor
May 21, 2024
Series A - Farcaster Series A - Farcaster
-150.0M-
May 30, 2024
Series A - Neynar Series A - Neynar
-11.0M-
Jun 13, 2024
Series A - UNIGRID Series A - UNIGRID
-12.0M-
Jun 20, 2024
Series A - Molten Industries Series A - Molten Industries
-25.0M-

Investors

0

There is no funding round available on this profile

Fund raised

2

Susa Ventures has raised a total of $590M across 6 funds, their latest being Susa Ventures Opportunities II. This fund was announced on Aug 30, 2021 and raised a total of $250M.

Annouced DateFund NameMoney Raised
May 10, 2013
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1.0M
May 11, 2013
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1.0M

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