Union Square Ventures | New York City

We are a thesis-driven venture capital firm. We invest in networks, infrastructure for the new economy, and enablers of open, decentralized data.

Since 2004, we have invested in over 80 companies, spanning sectors and geographies.

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Union Square Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm based in New York City. We invest in young companies that use information technology in innovative ways to create high growth business opportunities in web applications and services.

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218 Investments in 100 Companies.5 IPOs & 23 Acquisitions

Union Square Ventures (USV), is an American New York-based venture capital firm, that manages assets totaling $1 billion as of March 2016.[1] The firm is one of the top returning venture capital funds in the world, its 2004 fund returning 13.91 times cash-on-cash with an IRR of 67.0%.[2] The firm has had a billion dollar exit every year since 2011 including Zynga ’11 at 7.7B, Indeed ’12 at 1.4B, Tumblr ’13 1.1B, Twitter ’13 at 14.2 B, Lending Club ’14 at 5.42B, Etsy ’15 at 1.78B and Twilio ’16 at 1.23B.[3] Additionally, the firm's founder Fred Wilson, who is well recognized as one of the best venture capitalists in the world,[4] has acquired a celebrity status in the tech world stemming in part to his blog AVC.com[5][6][7][8]