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The Historic Fund
Samson Mesele – Jun 4, 2023
We are proud to announce our participation in the Historic Fund, a new initiative supporting HBCUs in the United States. We have invited a number of HBCUs to be limited partners in venture capital funds without having to invest their [...] Read more
USV Analyst Program 2022
Albert Wenger – Sep 6, 2022
As we pre-announced a week ago, the time has come again for a new USV analyst cohort. This blog post lays out what the USV analyst program is and how you apply for it, including FAQs that we will update [...] Read more
USV Analyst Program 2022: Heads Up
Albert Wenger – Aug 25, 2022
It is hard to believe but well over two years have passed since Hannah, Hanel and David joined us as analysts at USV (David left midstream to start Primitives and Mona joined us). This means we are about to kick [...] Read more
Brilliant Planet
Mona Alsubaei – Apr 6, 2022
Co-authored by John Buttrick Of the world’s 2,000 largest public companies, at least 21% now have net-zero commitments. For most of these companies, even with significant emissions reduction, carbon offsetting will be essential to achieving their goals. In fact, all [...] 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
2020 Analyst Recruiting is Complete!
Gillian Munson – Feb 6, 2020
After reviewing 345 applications, interviewing 30 candidates, and inviting 11 to meet us in person, we are excited to announce that we have 3 incredible analysts joining USV in the coming weeks. We recognize that our process is a bit [...] Read more
Expanding Our Network
Matt Cynamon – Jan 24, 2020
Some of the ways we've expanded what it means to be a part of the USV network in 2019 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