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Websiteusv.com
Phone(212) 994-7880
Emailinfo@unionsquarev...
Employees5
Founded11/04

Funds

Latest Fund, 9/11 $200M

Offices

New York, USA
915 Broadway
19th Floor
New York, NY, 10010
USA

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Union Square Ventures

“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 the Media, Marketing, Financial Services, Telecommunications, and Healthcare industries.

Our venture capital firm was conceived as a place where a small number of very experienced investment professionals, working collaboratively from a single office, could build a portfolio of promising startup companies and then put our experience and our networks to work to help those companies build valuable businesses.

Over the past 17 years, we have been directly involved in the development of 40 companies and have, through our prior firms, participated in the launch of over 120 companies. That experience has convinced us that we can deliver the highest returns to our investors by doing the work of venture capital ourselves, from sourcing investments, through due diligence and supporting our portfolio companies, to ultimately exiting the investments.

For an entrepreneur looking for venture capital, this means that you will be dealing with a principal of the firm from day one. If we chose to invest our time in your business, you can be sure that we are serious about investing our capital as well. As a portfolio company, you will be supported by a partner who has been directly involved with your company since the initial investment consideration. We will, as a result, be able to quickly identify opportunities to contribute to the development of your company whether you need to round out your management team, connect with a potential customer, or find a strategic partner. Our ongoing, direct involvement will also enable you to react quickly to financing, acquisition, or exit opportunities. ” (Source: Union Square Ventures)

Recent Milestones

Investments

Company Date Round Size Participants
CircleUp 5/13Series A$7.5M2
Coinbase 5/13Series A$5M2
Science Exchange 5/13Series A$3M10
Dwolla 5/13Series C$16.5M4
Shapeways 4/13Series C$30M4
Kik Interactive 4/13Series B$19.5M4
Kitchensurfing 4/13Series A$3.5M2
Kitchensurfing 4/13Series A$3.5M2
Auxmoney 3/13Venture Round$12M2
Simulmedia 2/13Series D$5M3
Skillshare 1/13Venture Round$1M2
Heyzap 1/13Series B$4.3M2
Hailo 12/12Series B$30.6M8
Sift Science 11/12Series A$4M4
Flurry 11/12Series D$25M7
Duolingo 9/12Series B$15M2
C2FO 9/12Venture Round$9.1M1
Edmodo 7/12Series C$25M6
Shapeways 6/12Series B$6.2M3
Codecademy 6/12Series B$10M6
Wattpad 6/12Series B$17.3M3
10gen 5/12Series E$42M4
Behance 5/12Series A$6.5M8
Etsy 5/12Venture Round$40M4
Simulmedia 4/12Series C$6M3
Funding Circle 4/12Series B$16M2
Dwolla 2/12Series B$5M6
GetGlue 1/12Series D$12M4
Twilio 12/11Series C$17M2
Shapeways 11/11Series B$5.1M2
Codecademy 10/11Venture Round$2.5M6
Duolingo 10/11Series A$3.3M3
Clickable 10/11Series C$12M4
DuckDuckGo 10/11Venture Round$3M7
Tumblr 9/11Venture Round$85M8
turntable.fm 9/11Series A$7M10
Wattpad 9/11Series A$3.5M3
10gen 9/11Series D$20M3
Lending Club 9/11Venture Round2
Work Market 9/11Series B$5M3
Skillshare 8/11Series A$3.1M2
Lending Club 8/11Series D$25M4
foursquare 6/11Series C$50M5
Canvas Networks 6/11Series A$3M6
Disqus 5/11Series A$10M2
Kickstarter 3/11Venture Round$10M18
Stack Exchange 3/11Series B$12M3
Kik Interactive 3/11Series A$8M3
Boxee 3/11Series C$16.5M5
TargetSpot, Inc. 1/11Series C$8M4
SoundCloud 1/11Series B$10M2
Flurry 12/10Series C$15M5
Edmodo 12/10Venture Round2
10gen 12/10Series C$6.5M3
Tasty Labs 11/10Series A$3M5
Hashable 11/10Series A$4M3
Tumblr 11/10Series D$30M3
Zemanta 11/10Seed$3M2
Twilio 11/10Series B$12M4
Shapeways 9/10Series A$6M2
foursquare 6/10Series B$20M6
Heyzap 6/10Series A$3M3
Smart Balloon 6/10Venture Round$3M1
Stack Exchange 5/10Series A$6M10
Simulmedia 4/10Series B$8M3
Tumblr 4/10Series C$5M2
AMEE 2/10Series B$5.5M3
Flurry 1/10Series B$7M4
GetGlue 1/10Series C$6M3
Twilio 12/09Series A$3.7M6
Outside.in 12/09Series B$7M5
10gen 11/09Series B$3.4M2
UpCompany 9/09Venture Round$5.73M3
foursquare 9/09Angel$1.35M9
Boxee 8/09Series B$6M3
Tracked.com 7/09Series A$6.5M9
Heyzap 5/09Seed$650k4
Simulmedia 3/09Series A$4M2
Twitter 2/09Series C$35M6
Return Path 1/09Series E$6M4
Outside.in 12/08Series A$2M3
Tumblr 12/08Series B$4.5M2
Boxee 11/08Series A$4M2
Return Path 11/08Series E$10M1
AdaptiveBlue 10/08Series B$4.52M2
Zemanta 9/08Seed$750k2
Bug Labs 8/08Series C3
Clickable 7/08Series B$14.5M3
Meetup 7/08Series D$7.5M1
10gen 7/08Series A$1.5M1
Zynga 7/08Series B$25M5
Tracked.com 7/08Angel$5M8
Outside.in 5/08Series A$3M5
Pinch Media 5/08Seed6
Twitter 5/08Series B$15M6
Covestor 4/08Series A$6.5M4
Disqus 3/08Series A$500k3
TargetSpot, Inc. 3/08Series B$8.6M3
Zynga 2/08Series A$5.03M3
Zynga 1/08Series A$10M11
AMEE 1/08Series A3
Etsy 1/08Series D$27M4
Clickable 11/07Series A$3M4
Tumblr 10/07Series A$750k5
Outside.in 10/07Angel$1.5M7
Twitter 7/07Series A$5M10
Clickable 7/07Series A$3M4
Etsy 7/07Series C$3.25M1
Wesabe 6/07Series A$4M2
AdaptiveBlue 2/07Series A$1.5M1
Tacoda 2/07Series D$7M4
Outside.in 2/07Angel$900k9
Etsy 1/07Series B1
Etsy 11/06Series A$1M5
Oddcast 6/06Series D$4M2
Bug Labs 4/06Series A$500k1
Tacoda 3/06Venture Round$12M1
Indeed 8/05Series A$5M3
delicious 4/05Seed4

Videos

Sources

  1. Union Square Ventures Seeks Up To $200M For New Venture Fund (pevc.dowjones.com) [edit]
  2. Union Square Ventures Raising New Fund (businessinsider.com) [edit]
  3. CircleUp, An Investment Platform For Non-Techie Consumer Startups, Raises $7.5M Led By Union Square (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  4. Coinbase Raises $5M in Funding; Now Processes $15M (finsmes.com) [edit]
  5. Science Exchange Raises $3M in Series A Financing (finsmes.com) [edit]
  6. Payments Network Dwolla Raises $16.5 Million Series C From Andreessen Horowitz & Others, Expands To San Francisco (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  7. 3D Printing Company Shapeways Raises $30 Million C Round Led By Andreessen Horowitz (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  8. Kik Raises $19.5M Series B, Bets On Its Cards Platform Play To Take On WhatsApp And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  9. Private chef service Kitchensurfing picks up $3.5M Series A round (pandodaily.com) [edit]
  10. Kitchensurfing Wants to Make Dinner at Your House, With Help From USV, Spark (allthingsd.com) [edit]
  11. Auxmoney Raises $12M in Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
  12. Main Event Page news Comment 0 inShare7 Simulmedia Raises Another $5 Million From Existing Investors To Help Make TV Ads More Like Web Ads (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  13. With A Fresh $1M From Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh, Skillshare Looks To Expand Its Course Menu And Go Big Abroad (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  14. Mobile Gaming Platform Heyzap Confirms $4.3M Round From Union Square And Qualcomm (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  15. Uber Rival Hailo Reportedly Set To Close $30M Funding Round As It Expands In The U.S. (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  16. Ex-Googlers Launch Sift Science, A Fraud-Fighting System For Websites, Backed By $5.5M In Funding From Union Square, First Round, YC & Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  17. Investors Plug Another $25 Million Into IPO-Bound Flurry (allthingsd.com) [edit]
  18. Duolingo Raises $15M Series B Round Led By NEA, Will Expand To More Languages And To Mobile Soon (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  19. Pollenware (C2FO) Closes $9.1M Venture Capital Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
  20. NEA Leads Educational Network Edmodo’s $25 Million Series C (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  21. After Printing Over 1M 3D Objects, Shapeways Raises $6.2M Round Led By Lux Capital (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  22. Codecademy Plans Global Code-Teaching Expansion With $10M From Branson, Milner, Kleiner, Index, Union Square (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  23. Social Publisher Wattpad Raises $17.3M From Khosla, Jerry Yang, Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  24. MongoDB Developer 10gen Raises $42 Million Round Led By New Enterprise Associates (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  25. After 5 Years Of Bootstrapping, Behance Nabs $6.5M From USV, Jeff Bezos, Dave Morin & More (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  26. Etsy Raises $40M To Fuel International Expansion (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  27. Simulmedia's Investors Fund New $6 Million Round (simulmedia.com) [edit]
  28. Funding Circle, a Kickstarter for SMBs, Picks Up $16M From Index, Union Square Ventures (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  29. Dwolla Raises $5 Million Series B From Union Square Ventures & Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  30. Social Entertainment Network GetGlue Raises $12 Million In New Financing (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  31. Twilio Raises $17 Million Series C From Bessemer and Union Square To Expand Internationally (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  32. 3D Printing Startup Shapeways Raises $5.1 Million, Plans NYC Production Facility (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  33. Codecademy Raises $2.5 Million To Teach You How To Code (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  34. bits.blogs.nytimes.com [edit]
  35. AmEx Leads $12 Million Round In Clickable, Which Wants To "Become The AdWords Of Social" (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  36. Union Square Ventures, Others Invest In Alternative Search Engine DuckDuckGo (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  37. Tumblr Raises $85M in Funding (finsmes.com) []
  38. Turntable.fm Closes That $7 Million Round, Fred Wilson Joins Board (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  39. Community Writing Site Wattpad Raises $3.5 Million In Series A Funding (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  40. 10gen raises $20M for MongoDB in maturing NoSQL space (gigaom.com) [edit]
  41. Lending Club Raises Funding from Thomvest and Union Square Ventures (finsmes.com) [edit]
  42. SEC D (sec.gov) [edit]
  43. Skillshare Raises $3.1 Million to Turn Everyone Into Teachers (bits.blogs.nytimes.com) [edit]
  44. WSJ (blogs.wsj.com) [edit]
  45. Foursquare Closes $50M at a $600M Valuation (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  46. Union Square Ventures Leads $3M Round In 4chan Founder Moot’s New Startup Canvas (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  47. Disqus Raises A $10 Million Round And Closes In On 500 Million Monthly Uniques (businessinsider.com) [edit]
  48. Kickstarter Fesses Up: The Crowd-Sourced Funding Startup Has Funding Too (mediamemo.allthingsd.com) [edit]
  49. Stack Overflow, Now Stack Exchange Inc, Raises $12M From Union Square Ventures And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  50. Mobile Messaging Startup Kik Raises $8M; Launches Group Chat And Photo Sharing (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  51. Boxee Raises $16.5 Million For Its Vision For The "Future Of TV" (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  52. Digital Audio Advertising Company TargetSpot Lands $8 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  53. Wall Street Journal (mediamemo.allthingsd.com) [edit]
  54. Mobile app analytics firm Flurry closes $15 million Series C round (fiercemobilecontent.com) [edit]
  55. Union square ventures invests in Edmodo (unionsquareventures.com) [edit]
  56. 10gen Raises $6.5M to Dominate the NoSQL Space (gigaom.com) [edit]
  57. Delicious Founder Raises Funding For Tasty Labs’ Take On Social Software (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  58. SAI (businessinsider.com) [edit]
  59. What’s New At Tumblr: Funding, Hires, Office, Board Member, And A Focus On Fashion (techcrunch.com) []
  60. Zemanta Raises $3 Million From Union Square, Eden, To Help You “Blog Smarter” (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  61. Twilio Raises $12 Million For Powerful Telephony API (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  62. Shapeways lands $5 million for 3D printing (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  63. Foursquare Closes $20 Million Series B From Andreessen Horowitz, Union Square, And O'Reilly (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  64. HeyZap Lands Another $3 Million In Funding (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  65. EDGAR [edit]
  66. All-Star Team Backs StackOverflow to Go Beyond Programming Questions (readwriteweb.com) [edit]
  67. TV Promotions Platform Simulmedia Raises $8 Million Second Round (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  68. Union Square, Spark Capital Double Tumblr’s Funding To $10 Million Read more: http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/20/tumblr-funding/#ixzz0lf32gno4 (techcrunch.com) []
  69. AMEE Gets $5.5 Million For Greenhouse Gas Monitoring (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  70. Flurry Closes $7M Series B Financing (finsmes.com) [edit]
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  80. Ad Giant Dave Morgan Raises $4M For Simulmedia (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
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  86. Return Path Raises Fifth Round (pehub.com) [edit]
  87. peHUB (pehub.com) [edit]
  88. Slovenia Tech Company Zemanta Gets Seed Money (scommerce.com) [edit]
  89. We’ve raised a third round of funding (bugblogger.com) [edit]
  90. Clickable Raises $14.5 Million More For Online Ad Management (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  91. Our Newest Portfolio Company: Meetup (avc.blogs.com) [edit]
  92. 10gen, New Cloud Computing Firm, Closes $1.5m Series A (10gen.com) [edit]
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  94. Company Communication [edit]
  95. Local Content Aggregator Outside.in Gets $3 Million Third Round (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  96. Pinch Media Releases Free Analytics for iPhone SDK (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  97. Twitter Announces Their Funding, Calls Itself A Communication Utility (techcrunch.com) []
  98. Covestor Raises $6.5M for Social Investing (mashable.com) [edit]
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  100. Internet Radio Advertiser TargetSpot Secures $8.6 Million Second Round (paidcontent.org) [edit]
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  103. AMEE fuelled by leading VC funds (amee.com) [edit]
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  117. Oddcast, makers of the avatar product Sitepal, closed a $4 million funding round last week led by Union Square Ventures. (mashable.com) [edit]
  118. Bug Labs pulls in funds for do-it-yourself gadgets (news.cnet.com) [edit]
  119. TACODA Raises $12 million (unionsquareventures.com) [edit]
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