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Founded12/05

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New York, USA
915 Broadway
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New York, NY, 10010
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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)

Milestones

Investments

Company Date Round Size Participants
10gen 11/09Series B$3.4M2
UpCompany 9/09Unattributed$5.73M2
Foursquare 9/09Seed$1.35M9
Boxee 8/09Series B$6M3
Tracked.com 7/09Series A$6.5M8
Heyzap 5/09Seed$650k3
Simulmedia 3/09Series A$4M2
Twitter 2/09Series C$35M6
Return Path 1/09Series E$6M4
Outside.in 12/08Series B$2M3
Tumblr 12/08Series B$4.5M2
Boxee 11/08Series A$4M2
Return Path 11/08Series E$10M1
AdaptiveBlue 10/08Series B$4.52M1
Zemanta 9/08Seed$750k2
Bug Labs 8/08Series C3
Clickable 7/08Series B$14.5M3
Meetup 7/08Series D$7.5M1
Zynga 7/08Series B$29M4
10gen 7/08Series A$1.5M1
Tracked.com 7/08Angel$5M7
Outside.in 5/08Series A$3M5
Twitter 5/08Series B$15M6
Pinch Media 5/08Seed6
Covestor 4/08Series A$6.5M3
DISQUS 3/08Series A$500k1
AMEE 2008Series A3
Zynga 1/08Series A$10M10
Etsy 1/08Series C$27M3
Clickable 11/07Series A$3M4
Tumblr 10/07Series A$750k2
Outside.in 10/07Angel$1.5M7
Twitter 7/07Series A$5M8
Etsy 7/07Series B$3.25M1
Clickable 7/07Series A$3M4
Wesabe 6/07Series A$4M2
AdaptiveBlue 2/07Series A$1.5M1
Outside.in 2/07Angel$900k9
Etsy 11/06Series A$1M1
Bug Labs 4/06Series A2
Indeed 8/05Series A$5M3
delicious 4/05Seed3

Videos

Sources

  1. 10gen Garners Series B Venture Capital Investment (venturedeal.com) [edit]
  2. Financial Portal RakedIn Gets $5.7 Million From Unionsquare and Others (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  3. techcrunch.com [edit]
  4. Boxee Watches $6 Million More In Funding Stream In (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  5. Company Communication [edit]
  6. Heyzap Closes Seed Funding Round For Its Flash Gaming Widget (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  7. Ad Giant Dave Morgan Raises $4M For Simulmedia (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
  8. Twitter Raises $35 Million Series C From Benchmark and IVP, Others (techcrunch.com) []
  9. Citation Needed [add]
  10. Hyper-Local News Service Outside.In Grows (bits.blogs.nytimes.com) [edit]
  11. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) []
  12. Boxee raisted 4m Today (vccafe.com) [edit]
  13. Return Path Raises Fifth Round (pehub.com) [edit]
  14. peHUB (pehub.com) [edit]
  15. Slovenia Tech Company Zemanta Gets Seed Money (scommerce.com) [edit]
  16. We’ve raised a third round of funding (bugblogger.com) [edit]
  17. Clickable Raises $14.5 Million More For Online Ad Management (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  18. Our Newest Portfolio Company: Meetup (avc.blogs.com) [edit]
  19. techcrunch.com []
  20. 10gen, New Cloud Computing Firm, Closes $1.5m Series A (10gen.com) [edit]
  21. Company Communication [edit]
  22. Local Content Aggregator Outside.in Gets $3 Million Third Round (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  23. Twitter Announces Their Funding, Calls Itself A Communication Utility (techcrunch.com) []
  24. techcrunch.com [edit]
  25. techcrunch.com [edit]
  26. Citation Needed [add]
  27. AMEE fuelled by leading VC funds (amee.com) [edit]
  28. dmwmedia.com []
  29. Etsy Raises $27 Million; Accel’s Jim Breyer Joins Board (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  30. americanventuremagazine.com [edit]
  31. http://www.alleyinsider.com/2007/10/tumblr-funded-750k-vimeo.html (alleyinsider.com) []
  32. villageventures.com [edit]
  33. More Information On That Secretive Twitter Financing (techcrunch.com) []
  34. techconfidential.com [edit]
  35. thealarmclock.com [edit]
  36. blog.wesabe.com [edit]
  37. techcrunch.com [edit]
  38. villageventures.com [edit]
  39. techconfidential.com [edit]
  40. Bug Labs pulls in funds for do-it-yourself gadgets (news.cnet.com) [edit]
  41. techcrunch.com [edit]
  42. Profile: Del.icio.us (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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