Union Square Ventures

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4 alumni

Investments

• Doctronic

  New York City-based company building an AI doctor that provides free AI medical consultations, symptom assessment and connections to licensed physicians.

• Viam

  New York company building a modern software platform for robotics and smart machines.

• Simulmedia

  Cross-channel TV advertising platform using audience data science across linear TV, connected TV and games

• Yieldmo

  New York City-headquartered advertising platform using AI and predictive technology for creative format selection, attention signals and inventory curation.

• Clarifai

  New York computer vision and AI platform for building, deploying and operating models.

• Hume AI

  Empathic AI research company building vocal, facial and language expression models and APIs

• Splice

  Music creation platform offering royalty-free samples, AI-powered sound discovery and AI voice production tools for producers

• The General Intelligence Company

  New York-based applied AI lab building AI agents that run entire businesses; its first product, Cofounder, coordinates agents across product, code review and operations.

In the news

• A bunch of you asked me who produced this video. It was @sandwich. They are world class. 10/10 on both creative and production, would work with them again, every time.@mignanoX · Oct 3, 2026
  QuotedMichael Mignano@mignanoIntroducing @Supertake, a new platform that transforms your unique takes on the world into real, shareable investment portfolios using frontier AI and trading agents. Supertake makes it easy for anyone to invest in their ideas, even if they know nothing about investing. 1/ https://t.co/pgettfU30s
• We are so wedded to the past that we will reason our way to forced labor rather than build a future of abundance@albertwengerX · Oct 3, 2026
• We listened to this conversation between @uninsightful and me this morning on a long drive. It was recorded at the USV CEO Summit right after Labor Day. It's a cross between Nikhil interviewing me and the two of us taking about the state of the VC business in 2026. Lots of gems@fredwilsonX · Oct 3, 2026
  QuotedMatt Cynamon@mattcynamonWriting a check doesn’t qualify you to give advice. When @fredwilson was 29 he tried to show up to a board meeting and start giving advice. One of the founders stopped him, “come do every job in the company for a week, then we’ll listen.” So he flew to Buffalo and did it. With @uninsightful staying at USV as an Investment Partner, I asked the two of them to sit down and compare notes on a business they entered almost four decades apart. Nikhil is the first analyst in our program’s 20-year history that we've offered the opportunity to stay and move up in the firm. They covered earning a founder’s trust, building conviction before your partners agree, and staying open to ideas that challenge your strongest held beliefs. They also got into where USV has been right, where we’ve been (very) wrong, and how the venture business is changing. 0:00 Preview 1:46 Why Difficult Founders Make the Most Money 5:20 Before You Give a Founder Advice, Earn the Right 11:28 @fomo: We Passed. Then Spent Six Months Trying to Get In. 20:20 Biology Is Becoming Programmable and Opening Up to Outsiders 22:49 When Knowing Less Helps You See More 26:34 How Do You Compete With a $100 Billion VC Firm? 34:45 Why Fred Would Take His Company Public 38:01 What USV Gets Wrong About Founders 40:47 The Moat AI Hasn’t Broken: Network Effects 44:33 Who Wins When AI Becomes Multiplayer?
• Reposted nikhil@albertwengerX · Oct 2, 2026
  Repostednikhil@uninsightfulfor half of the things I do in my job on a daily basis, there's some old AVC post deeply relevant to it so when I get Fred's take on something usually its more like "hey I know what your take on this topic was 10 yrs ago -- do you think this still holds" was a fun hour riffing on some of these evergreen topics: https://t.co/ajae9Xj0Xx https://t.co/0umnfEcv2k some moments that stuck with me: - I contend that most of the most important "networks" have already been built. Fred disagrees - I contend that mega-VC has put immense pressure on the USV model and that non-operator investors are disadvantaged. Fred suggested both may be true but can be made up for by working harder
• Reposted Matt Cynamon@albertwengerX · Oct 2, 2026
  RepostedMatt Cynamon@mattcynamonWriting a check doesn’t qualify you to give advice. When @fredwilson was 29 he tried to show up to a board meeting and start giving advice. One of the founders stopped him, “come do every job in the company for a week, then we’ll listen.” So he flew to Buffalo and did it. With @uninsightful staying at USV as an Investment Partner, I asked the two of them to sit down and compare notes on a business they entered almost four decades apart. Nikhil is the first analyst in our program’s 20-year history that we've offered the opportunity to stay and move up in the firm. They covered earning a founder’s trust, building conviction before your partners agree, and staying open to ideas that challenge your strongest held beliefs. They also got into where USV has been right, where we’ve been (very) wrong, and how the venture business is changing. 0:00 Preview 1:46 Why Difficult Founders Make the Most Money 5:20 Before You Give a Founder Advice, Earn the Right 11:28 @fomo: We Passed. Then Spent Six Months Trying to Get In. 20:20 Biology Is Becoming Programmable and Opening Up to Outsiders 22:49 When Knowing Less Helps You See More 26:34 How Do You Compete With a $100 Billion VC Firm? 34:45 Why Fred Would Take His Company Public 38:01 What USV Gets Wrong About Founders 40:47 The Moat AI Hasn’t Broken: Network Effects 44:33 Who Wins When AI Becomes Multiplayer?
• Introducing crypto on @Supertake. Some of the biggest ideas of our time don't live on the stock market: Digital gold. Money moving onchain. Smart contracts rebuilding finance. A personal financial agent should be able to own the whole idea, wherever it lives. Starting today, it https://t.co/KyKOsCAx9b@mignanoX · Oct 2, 2026
  
• Reposted Michael Mignano@rebeccakadenX · Oct 1, 2026
  RepostedMichael Mignano@mignanoIntroducing @Supertake Memory. Earlier this week, we launched Supertake and shared our vision to equip everyone with the superpowers to invest in their own insights through frontier-level intelligence. We believe everyone deserves their own personal financial agent, tightly aligned with their interests and working around the clock with the most powerful technology. To do that right, Supertake needs to know you: your preferences, your beliefs, your intuitions, your history. The same things a world-class financial manager would learn, but only after many years. Memory is a step in that direction. Supertake now remembers what you tell it, in every chat: your goals, your preferences, your limits, the calls you've made and why, even the nicknames you give your takes. It carries all of that into every conversation, whether you're building a new take or checking on one, and it keeps track of where each conversation left off, so you don't have to repeat yourself. You also stay in control. Ask what it remembers, correct it, or tell it to forget, anytime. With today's release, Supertake not only acts upon your insights, but begins to compound them. Available for all users, right now.
• Reposted puneet@rebeccakadenX · Sep 30, 2026
  Repostedpuneet@puneetpGritt AI is now installing 1 MW of solar capacity per day at 4× the speed of a typical installation crew. And our daily installation rate keeps accelerating. At our active site, each day’s installation adds enough solar capacity to meet roughly 200 homes’ annual electricity needs once operational. That’s the milestone: every day, more infrastructure built. Every increase in speed, more capacity to meet America’s growing energy demand. Solar is just the beginning. Next, we aim to bring Gritt’s construction superintelligence to data centers, water treatment plants, and pipelines. Our mission: enable humanity to build centuries’ worth of infrastructure in decades. Civilization. Accelerated. @Jason @andrewbeebe @albertwenger @hayleybay @CleanVC @rebeccakaden @Rajil @GrittRobotics

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