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Nick Grossman – Jan 16, 2020
When USV started looking closely at the energy sector, we were excited to find networks on multiple levels: at the grid level, a network of electrons; at the market level, a network of transactions and financial products; and at the [...] Read more
Wren
Dani Grant – Jan 16, 2020
We are excited to be welcoming Wren to the USV portfolio. We first came across Wren while navigating the confusing process of purchasing carbon offsets for our firm’s travel. We found Wren to be one of the most clear and [...] Read more
CoverWallet, now an Aon company
John Buttrick – Jan 13, 2020
Last week CoverWallet, one of our portfolio companies, was acquired by Aon, one of the world’s leading companies focused on insurance. CoverWallet was launched in early 2016 by its co-founders Inaki and Rashmi to reinvent commercial insurance by leveraging technology, [...] Read more
Juro
John Buttrick – Jan 7, 2020
When I was at law school in a prior life, Contracts was one of my favorite classes. The cases were filled with colorful stories of people who thought they had an agreement but didn’t, or ended up with an agreement [...] Read more
Update on 2020 Analyst Recruiting
Gillian Munson – Dec 20, 2019
We are in the final stages of our first cut for our 2020 Analyst Program. The next stage is phone/video interviews for a subset of the applicants. We will be reaching out to those candidates over the next 2 weeks [...] Read more
Hiring New Analysts @ USV
Gillian Munson – Nov 25, 2019
We are excited to announce that we are again recruiting new analysts at USV. As is tradition, analysts at USV join our firm for a two-year “tour of duty,” where they sit on the investment team and work closely with [...] Read more