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Union Square Ventures is a venture capital firm based in New York City.
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@neynar and @usv are hosting a pre-farcon event on April 30th
We’ll have speakers from crypto companies discussing their biggest problems with an audience of engineers, designers, founders, and investors that can help!
Sign up to join here: https://lu.ma/bxomr102
Sign up to speak here: https://app.deform.cc/form/3f52179c-f58f-41d1-a09a-bbc929e747e2/
We’ll have speakers from crypto companies discussing their biggest problems with an audience of engineers, designers, founders, and investors that can help!
Sign up to join here: https://lu.ma/bxomr102
Sign up to speak here: https://app.deform.cc/form/3f52179c-f58f-41d1-a09a-bbc929e747e2/
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rish
@rish·18:00 02/04/2025
We're hosting a Farcon pizza hang with our friends at @usv the night before Farcon officially starts!
We'll discuss top problems builders and founders are facing when building new products in crypto. Speakers will have the opportunity to showcase what they are working on and discuss what their biggest barriers are. Audience will consist of other founders, engineers, designers and investors who can help.
If you've something cool you're working on, fill in this form: https://app.deform.cc/form/3f52179c-f58f-41d1-a09a-bbc929e747e2
If attending or speaking, make sure to register here: https://lu.ma/bxomr102
see you there 🪐
PS - there are no requirements e.g. using Neynar, etc.
We'll discuss top problems builders and founders are facing when building new products in crypto. Speakers will have the opportunity to showcase what they are working on and discuss what their biggest barriers are. Audience will consist of other founders, engineers, designers and investors who can help.
If you've something cool you're working on, fill in this form: https://app.deform.cc/form/3f52179c-f58f-41d1-a09a-bbc929e747e2
If attending or speaking, make sure to register here: https://lu.ma/bxomr102
see you there 🪐
PS - there are no requirements e.g. using Neynar, etc.
Farcon builder pizza hang! 🍕 (Neynar x USV) · Luma
Neynar and USV are cohosting an event the night before Farcon starts. Goal is to bring the top builders in the industry to talk about their biggest technical…
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We're excited to announce our investment in Pluralis Research, advancing "Actually Open AI" through decentralized, collaborative model training. @usv and @coinfund-io co-led the $7.6M seed round, with @variant, Topology, and others participating
more thoughts: https://blog.usv.com/pluralis-towards-actually-open-ai
more thoughts: https://blog.usv.com/pluralis-towards-actually-open-ai
Blockchain transactions should be seamless across any chain.
@reservoir’s @relay protocol makes this possible. With $500M+ in monthly cross-chain volume, we're thrilled to lead their Series A as they tackle blockchain fragmentation head-on.
https://blog.usv.com/reservoir
@reservoir’s @relay protocol makes this possible. With $500M+ in monthly cross-chain volume, we're thrilled to lead their Series A as they tackle blockchain fragmentation head-on.
https://blog.usv.com/reservoir
We are thrilled to announce our investment in Miren alongside @blueyard
Evan Phoenix is revolutionizing cloud deployment, making it simple and cost-effective for both humans and AI agents while unlocking the full potential of modern hardware. What a time to be building.
https://blog.usv.com/miren
Evan Phoenix is revolutionizing cloud deployment, making it simple and cost-effective for both humans and AI agents while unlocking the full potential of modern hardware. What a time to be building.
https://blog.usv.com/miren
This Meeting Could Have Been A Podcast - and now it is. This week we transformed our Oct 21 AI team meeting into an algorithmically distilled episode of USV Radio. We cover multi-agent systems, decentralized training, and how we're thinking about investing in the space:
https://soundcloud.com/thelibrarian-46645069/oh-usv-how-to-invest-in-ai-multi-agent-learning-decentralized-training-video-games
https://soundcloud.com/thelibrarian-46645069/oh-usv-how-to-invest-in-ai-multi-agent-learning-decentralized-training-video-games
Developed these OH's live on the Every AI&I podcast with @danshipper. Dan pushed us to dig deeper beyond just a one shot prompt, so here's a thread with the key insights we landed on from last week. Full podcast going live soon.👇
(this is a delayed crossposting from X from 10/18/24)
(this is a delayed crossposting from X from 10/18/24)
Incredibly excited to announce our investment in Daylight and to work with @kyle @morley and team! Starting with a personalized transaction recommendation API, Daylight is working to grow onchain GDP. More thoughts here:
https://blog.usv.com/daylight
https://blog.usv.com/daylight
This week we got together as a team for 2 hours while @mandel and @disgraceful gave us a comprehensive overview of our climate portfolio to date and where we should be looking for new opportunities. We invited @thelibrarian who shared these 5 OH’s back with us....
This week’s team conversations covered a wide range of topics, all the way from Electrons to Atoms to Proteins to Fat Models. Here were the 5 biggest themes from our team this week as overheard by @thelibrarian. 🧵
@usv and @variant are hosting the second iteration of our consumer crypto demo night on Sept 30th!
If you’re a builder in consumer and you’re interested in attending or demoing, sign up here: https://lu.ma/a9s1ou4d
If you’re a builder in consumer and you’re interested in attending or demoing, sign up here: https://lu.ma/a9s1ou4d
Inspired by @danielmason @danigrant and the writing of @nascent, we spent time this week discussing topics like web proofs, the unreliability of agents, our flexible load sub thesis, and whether Claude might be the enterprise super app... 🧵
After taking last week off for an off-the-record team outting, we’re back with 5 of our biggest themes from this week’s meetings, as determined by @thelibrarian …🧵
OH at @usv: a new experiment where we invite @thelibrarian to join our conversations and share some of the themes with the world.
Week of July 29th, 2024:
Week of July 29th, 2024:
OH at @usv: a new experiment where we invite @thelibrarian to join our conversations and share some of the themes with the world. More and more we're letting the Librarian get a peak at our emails.
Week of July 22nd, 2024:
Week of July 22nd, 2024:
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Samson Mesele
@samsonmesele·19:03 22/07/2024
Last April, USV joined the Venture Climate Alliance (VCA), a group of venture capital firms committed to achieving a rapid transition to net zero greenhouse gas emissions. We have worked with the VCA to develop a framework that startups in our portfolios may use to begin working toward that goal.
We are acutely aware of the many challenges that face young companies. We, as a firm, are committed to reducing that burden wherever we can. That said, we believe it is important to do what we can as a firm to move towards net zero, and to help those portfolio companies that share that belief to develop a plan, identify easy wins, and start down that road.
We hope the Venture Climate Alliance can be a clearinghouse for ideas and a resource for venture firms and their portfolio companies that are committed to putting their shoulder to the wheel to address the climate crisis.
See our post: https://blog.usv.com/continuing-the-venture-climate-alliance
We are acutely aware of the many challenges that face young companies. We, as a firm, are committed to reducing that burden wherever we can. That said, we believe it is important to do what we can as a firm to move towards net zero, and to help those portfolio companies that share that belief to develop a plan, identify easy wins, and start down that road.
We hope the Venture Climate Alliance can be a clearinghouse for ideas and a resource for venture firms and their portfolio companies that are committed to putting their shoulder to the wheel to address the climate crisis.
See our post: https://blog.usv.com/continuing-the-venture-climate-alliance
OH at @usv:
a new experiment where we invite @thelibrarian to join our conversations and share some of the themes with the world.
Week of July 15th, 2024:
a new experiment where we invite @thelibrarian to join our conversations and share some of the themes with the world.
Week of July 15th, 2024:
OH at @usv: a new experiment where we invite @thelibrarian to join our conversations and share some of the themes with the world.
Week of July 8th, 2024:
Week of July 8th, 2024:
OH at @usv: a new experiment where we invite @thelibrarian join our conversations and share some of the themes with the world.
Week of June 24th, 2024:
Week of June 24th, 2024:
OH at @usv: a new experiment where we invite an AI assistant to join our conversations and share some of the themes with the world. We subbed out GPT 4o for Sonnet 3.5 inside @thelibrarian’s brain for the second half of the week and the results are….telling.
Week of June 17th 2024:
Week of June 17th 2024:
OH at @usv : a new experiment where we invite an AI assistant to join our conversations and share some of the themes with the world. This time we let @thelibrarian take a peek at a couple of our emails. What could go wrong?
Week of June 3rd:
Week of June 3rd:
Alongside @variant, we're hosting a consumer crypto demo night with a focus on onchain social on June 13th evening!
Building on the energy at the app layer, we want to get builders in the space together to share ideas and learnings.
If you are interested in attending, apply here: https://lu.ma/das9mdhs
Building on the energy at the app layer, we want to get builders in the space together to share ideas and learnings.
If you are interested in attending, apply here: https://lu.ma/das9mdhs
Very excited to support @rish, @manan, and the @neynar team as they build the default tech stack for social protocols:
https://blog.usv.com/neynar
https://blog.usv.com/neynar
a fresh “OH at @usv” for the week of May 20th
follow @thelibrarian! that is where these weekly ai-distilled snippets and other experiments will live
follow @thelibrarian! that is where these weekly ai-distilled snippets and other experiments will live
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The Librarian
@thelibrarian·19:33 24/05/2024
OH at @usv: a new experiment where we invite an AI assistant to join our conversations and share some of the themes with the world.
Week of May 20th.
Week of May 20th.
Incredibly excited to support @farcaster on its path towards helping rewrite the social stack in a more open and interoperable fashion:
https://blog.usv.com/farcaster
https://blog.usv.com/farcaster
Very excited to announce both our investment in @paragraph and that /mirror and /paragraph are uniting to accelerate their shared mission of empowering creators and pushing forward onchain publishing!
and the @usv blog has a new home:
https://blog.usv.com/doubling-down-on-onchain-publishing-with-paragraph
and the @usv blog has a new home:
https://blog.usv.com/doubling-down-on-onchain-publishing-with-paragraph
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