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Mitigating the Climate Crisis: An Overview
Albert Wenger – Mar 15, 2021
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 today’s [...] Read more
SmartHop’s Series A
Rebecca Kaden – Feb 10, 2021
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 [...] Read more
USV 2021 Fund
Andy Weissman – Jan 26, 2021
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 [...] Read more
SilviaTerra
Albert Wenger – Jan 8, 2021
Key to addressing the climate crisis is changing the balance in the so-called carbon cycle. At present, every year we are adding roughly 5 gigatons of carbon to the atmosphere*. Since atmospheric carbon acts as a greenhouse gas this increases [...] Read more
USV Climate Fund
Albert Wenger – Jan 8, 2021
At USV we describe ourselves as a “thesis-driven venture capital firm.” For our core fund, we have been investing against Thesis 3.0 for some time. Over the last couple of years, we have been developing a separate Climate Thesis, including [...] Read more
Hacking Education 2.0
Hannah Murdoch – Dec 18, 2020
More than ten years ago, USV hosted a small group of educators, entrepreneurs, activists, and investors for a day-long session called Hacking Education. In summarizing that discussion, our partner Brad described the group’s collective optimism about the role technology would [...] Read more