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Collecting Diversity and Inclusion data for your company
Lauren Young – Jul 9, 2020
A company’s demographic makeup has never been more relevant. Employees want to know things: how leadership plans to measure and prioritize diversity, equity and inclusion, how they compare to other companies in their sector or industry, and what tools they [...] Read more
NYC Tech Companies: Please Consider Participating in Summer Bridge
Hanel Baveja – Jul 6, 2020
NYC’s Summer Youth Employment Program is the nation’s largest youth employment program, historically connecting NYC’s neediest young adults (between the ages of 14 and 24) with a paid work experience every summer. The COVID-19 pandemic threw a wrench into it [...] Read more
USV Algorand Transparency Statement, Q1 & Q2 2020
Nick Grossman – Jul 1, 2020
As part of an ongoing effort to bring transparency and clarity to the Algorand project, we are continuing to publish regular transparency statements on our Algorand holdings and activities (we apologize for the delay on the Q1 reporting and our [...] Read more
Augmented Reality NFTs
David Gabeau – Jun 26, 2020
Nonfungible Tokens, or NFTs, provide a way to verify that a digital asset is uniquely owned and has specific properties, thus potentially giving the asset value through scarcity. This is a powerful idea for gaming because in many games users [...] Read more
An Appraisal
Union Square Ventures – Jun 3, 2020
We believe that Black lives matter and we oppose all forms of racism. We also recognize that the forces behind the incidents of the last few weeks are not new, but rather known and systemic. Therefore, we must confront the [...] Read more
How COVID Is Impacting Hiring
Matt Cynamon – May 20, 2020
As the longer term impacts of COVID-19 continue to reveal themselves, one area we’ve been paying close attention to is the jobs market. In our portfolio, some companies have newfound tailwinds and are accelerating hiring. Others are cutting back either [...] Read more