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Core: Seed and Series A · Climate: Seed and Series A · Opportunity: Later-stage and special situations · Seed · Series A · Early · Opportunity and follow-on

Union Square Ventures

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Union Square Ventures invests across Social, Marketplaces, Developer Tools, Learning, Healthcare from Core: Seed and Series A through Climate: Seed and Series A through Opportunity: Later-stage and special situations. Strategy, team, and company relationships are indexed from the firm’s official pages.

SocialMarketplacesDeveloper ToolsLearningHealthcareFinancial TechnologyCryptoClimate & EnergyArtificial Intelligencenetworks and protocolscryptofintechconsumer internetdata and infrastructureclimate
Key people indexed2
Listed companies10
Distinct official sources2
Last checked2026-09-04
Strategy lens

Declared focus vs. observed sample

Declared focus reflects the firm’s own strategy language. Observed sectors summarize only the source-linked companies currently indexed here; it is not the firm’s complete portfolio allocation.

Observed company sample
AI / robotics infrastructure1
AI research search1
Artificial intelligence / physical world1
blockchain infrastructure1
Consumer / gaming1
Consumer artificial intelligence / music1
crypto infrastructure1
decentralized social protocol1
Fintech / prediction markets1
Social / web3 trading1
Founder fit screen

Prepare before contacting USV

Use the firm’s declared strategy and sourced relationship graph to build a specific outreach thesis. This is a preparation framework—not a claim about current appetite or check size.

01

Stage fit

Explain why the company belongs in Core: Seed and Series A, Climate: Seed and Series A, Opportunity: Later-stage and special situations and what proof has already removed the prior stage’s risk.

02

Sector fit

Anchor the opportunity to Social, Marketplaces, Developer Tools. Name the specific market shift and why it is happening now.

03

Partner fit

Review 2 indexed team profiles. Address the partner whose operating history and portfolio context best match the company.

04

Portfolio context

Study the 10 source-linked companies shown here. State whether the company is complementary, differentiated, or potentially competitive.

05

Evidence packet

Bring customer proof, cohort or deployment metrics, gross-margin logic, capital use, key risks, and the milestone this financing should unlock.

06

Contact route

Use the firm’s public route and keep the request precise: company, stage, round, traction, why this firm, and one clear next step.

Key people

Who shapes the partnership

Official team source
Selected relationships

Investments listed by the firm

Official portfolio source
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Source discipline

This dossier uses publicly available firm pages for team, strategy, and portfolio context. It does not infer check size, ownership, valuation, current holding status, or availability for introductions.