Union Square Ventures

Union Square Ventures (USV) is a New York City-based venture capital firm founded in 2003 by Fred Wilson and Brad Burnham. The firm focuses on investing in early-stage companies that are at the forefront of large markets undergoing transformation due to technological and societal pressures. USV has a history of backing over 130 startups, including notable companies such as Twitter, Etsy, Stripe, Coinbase, Zynga, Tumblr, Stack Overflow, Meetup, Kickstarter, MongoDB, Flurry, Cloudflare, Duolingo, and Carta. USV invests at the edge of large markets being transformed by technological and societal pressures, seeking out opportunities that use technology to vastly broaden access to knowledge, capital, wellbeing, energy, and other resources. They operate with a collaborative approach and maintain relatively small fund sizes to ensure alignment among entrepreneurs, general partners, and limited partners.