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Foursquare: Building the Business
Albert Wenger – Jan 14, 2016
We first invested in Foursquare in 2009 when the company was just getting going because we believed that location was a native aspect of smartphones. Since then our conviction about the importance of location to the mobile experience has continued [...] Read more
Introducing Koko
Brad Burnham – Dec 15, 2015
Last week, Farhad Manjoo of the New York Times mused in his column that the Internet was getting meaner: “If you’ve logged on to Twitter and Facebook in the waning weeks of 2015, you’ve surely noticed that the Internet now [...] Read more
USV Thesis 2.0
Andy Weissman – Dec 12, 2015
Union Square Ventures has always been a “thesis” driven firm. We maintain specific principles about the internet that guide our investment decisions. While other things like stage and to a lesser extent geography, also matter, our thesis or point of [...] Read more
SimScale
Albert Wenger – Dec 2, 2015
We are excited to announce our investment in Munich-based SimScale. SimScale makes complex engineering simulations, such as mechanical stress and fluid flows, available to anyone in the world with a web browser. These kinds of simulations were pioneered in the [...] Read more
Quizlet
Fred Wilson – Nov 23, 2015
There are some investments that take years to make. They are often our best investments. Quizlet took something like five years to go from a company we got interested in to a USV investment. In March 2009, we hosted an [...] Read more
Clue
Albert Wenger – Oct 9, 2015
We are excited about our investment in Berlin-based Clue, which puts women around the world in charge of their fertility and their health more generally. Clue does this by offering a period tracker and fertility app. We have been pursuing [...] Read more