Writing
Choose
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
Farcaster
Nick Grossman – May 21, 2024
Scale is All You Need?
Albert Wenger – May 7, 2024
Progress in artificial intelligence has come in the form of a bag of tricks, some of which have proven to be unreasonably effective: word embeddings as a way of representing semantic similarity; the attention mechanism for contextualization; self-supervised learning on [...] Read more
Doubling Down on Onchain Publishing with Paragraph
Nick Grossman – May 2, 2024
Today, we're thrilled to announce our investment in Paragraph, the leading platform enabling onchain publishing. Paragraph is joining forces with our portfolio company Mirror, which first defined many of today’s onchain publishing primitives. View the full post on Paragraph. Read more
Our Investment in Anon
Nick Grossman – Apr 29, 2024
In the original designs for the World Wide Web, there was a clear line drawn between the services people interacted with (websites), and the software they used to access those websites (browsers). An important distinction was that while the websites [...] Read more
The Primitives Protocol
Nick Grossman – Apr 4, 2024
For over a decade now, USV has been eagerly anticipating the emergence of “Web3” alongside “crypto”. What we mean by this is that while blockchains and crypto assets are still viewed by the world at large as financial technologies, they [...] Read more