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I hesitate to call this a feature, even though it is, as AirCraft is a way bigger deal than a new feature. Our portfolio company Dronebase operates the largest drone pilot network in the world. Tens of thousands of pilots [...]  Read more

The Token Summit, run by AVC regulars William Mouyagar and Nick Tomaino , announced two more events in the coming months, Dec 5th 2017 in San Francisco and May 17 2018 in New York. The first Token Summit was held in NYC at NYU last [...]  Read more

I got my hands on a Ledger Nano S last week and set it up over the weekend. The Ledger Nano is a “Cryptocurrency Hardware Wallet” which means it is a device you can store your Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other [...]  Read more

Late last year, USV funded a new hedge fund called Polychain Capital , which invests only in crypto-assets. I talked about the reasons for that investment in this blog post . In the video of the week, Polychain founder Olaf [...]  Read more

Our portfolio company Blockstack is building a development platform for decentralized applications built on top of the blockchain. This video explains what they are doing and they just published a whitepaper outlining how their token works to support this application [...]  Read more

I read this piece on Reuters claiming that the huge megafunds in venture and growth equity are “stalling IPOs.” And while it makes sense at some level, the truth is the exact opposite. Based on everything I am seeing, hearing, [...]  Read more

This past week our portfolio company MongoDB went public. I think that occasion presents an opportunity to talk about USV’s model. Read more