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Four Futures
Rebecca Kaden – Dec 18, 2024
We are in a moment where the future is both wildly exciting and highly uncertain. The acceleration of AI has created a new paradigm of possibilities but also fundamental questions we can’t yet answer. Will we continue speeding towards exponentially [...] Read more
Sling
Rebecca Kaden – Aug 14, 2024
The most exciting web3 opportunities center around applications that will onboard many millions, and eventually billions, of users to crypto by offering a combination of true utility and an easy to use, best in class consumer product. These products have [...] Read more
Collision Course
Rebecca Kaden – Jun 5, 2024
We are in the middle of two significant technological shifts happening simultaneously and also intertwined. AI and web3 may have different starting points and timelines but they are both fundamental advances in how computers can transform what we are able [...] Read more
Training the Weird
Rebecca Kaden – Jan 30, 2024
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 [...] Read more
Doubling Down on Slope
Rebecca Kaden – Sep 27, 2023
In April 2022, we wrote about our Series A investment in Slope, a B2B Buy-Now-Pay-Later (BNPL) platform creating an automated, zero-question, instantaneous underwriting platform for B2B installment loans and bringing a buttery experience to B2B payments that has previously been [...] Read more
Daybreak’s Series B
Rebecca Kaden – Aug 8, 2023
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, receive, [...] Read more
Welcoming Liza Landsman to Stash
Rebecca Kaden – Feb 2, 2023
When I first met Brandon and Ed, Co-Founders of Stash, in 2016 it was clear that they were approaching the consumer fintech whirlwind with a different perspective. At the time an early app and idea, the goal was to build [...] Read more
Journey Clinical’s Series A
Rebecca Kaden – Jan 24, 2023
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 [...] Read more
Alife’s Series A
Rebecca Kaden – Mar 21, 2022
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 [...] Read more