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Nikhil Raman – Sep 24, 2024
As crypto has evolved and matured over the last 15 years, many of its promises have – contrary to popular opinion – come to fruition to a nontrivial degree. Every day millions of users globally bring their wallets to applications [...] Read more
Neynar
Nikhil Raman – May 30, 2024
Last week, Farcaster announced their latest financing and USV announced its participation. As that blog post notes, USV has been thinking about and supporting social applications for two decades and we are incredibly excited to finally see real momentum around [...] Read more
NFTs Have Evolved, NFTs Endure
Nikhil Raman – Jan 3, 2024
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 think digital [...] Read more
Joining USV – Nikhil
Nikhil Raman – Mar 2, 2023
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 [...] Read more