Union Square Ventures

What they do

Union Square Ventures is a private equity and venture capital firm focused on early-stage, growth capital, late-stage, and startup financing. The USV portfolio companies create services that have the potential to fundamentally transform important markets. It exclusively invests in the internet world, focusing on the applications layer of the web, internet services, and web services that create large networks as well as the mobile sector. Some of its invested companies are based in New York, San Francisco, London, Berlin, and places in between. It typically makes a starting investment in portfolio companies of $1 million. In certain Series Around cases, the firm may make a starting investment between $2.5 million to $3 million. It typically invests up to $20 million in any single company. Union Square Ventures was founded in 2003 and is based in New York, United States.

What they look for

USV invests at the edge of large markets being transformed by technological and societal pressures

Stage

Seed, Series A, Series B+

Sectors

AI, Climate, Consumer, Edtech, SaaS, Fintech, Food and agriculture, Healthcare, HR and recruiting, Marketplace, Media, Mobility and logistics, Proptech, Cybersecurity

Based

New York, US