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Union Square Ventures stages, portfolio and investment profile
New York thesis-driven venture firm founded in 2003. In October 2026, Union Square Ventures announced $900 million across a $500 million early-stage core fund and a $400 million opportunity fund, while saying it expects to keep investment count roughly stable. The firm invests across AI, robotics, manufacturing, energy, consumer, money and biotech; historic portfolio companies include Twitter, Coinbase, Etsy, MongoDB and Twilio.
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Stage-based planning range
$1M–$10M
This is a planning range inferred from stage coverage, not a firm-disclosed check size.
Methodology: Stage bucket inferred from the rounds a fund leads or invests in.
No firm-specific check-size disclosure is recorded.
Investment stages
Leads: Seed, Series A
Participates: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Series B+
Sector focus
generalist-tech
Geography
New York, NY
Founded 2003
Fund size / AUM
Undisclosed; $900M in new 2026 fund commitments
A separate fund-size evidence record is not yet available.
Portfolio in our directory
30
Linked startup profiles
Recent tracked investment
Not recorded
No dated round explicitly links this fund.
Rounds they lead
Rounds they invest
Last verified: 2026-10-09T14:01:00.000Z. Check-size evidence is labeled by basis so planning estimates are not presented as firm disclosures.
Portfolio companies we track
Startups in our directory that list Union Square Ventures as an investor (24 total).
- Abridge AI medical scribe capturing clinician-patient conversations into structured EHR notes.
- Addi Colombian BNPL and consumer credit platform for underbanked shoppers and merchants.
- Arweave Permanent decentralized data storage protocol — pay once, store forever on the permaweb.
- Blackbird Restaurant loyalty and payments network with web3 rails (Blackbird Labs).
- Blackbird.xyz Alias for Blackbird Labs — restaurant loyalty and payments network.
- Coinbase Leading U.S. crypto exchange and on-ramp — early a16z conviction bet that went public.
- Dapper Labs Creator of Flow blockchain, NBA Top Shot, and consumer NFT gaming.
- Dwolla ACH payments API for programmatic U.S. bank-to-bank transfers.
- FingerprintsDAO DAO and collector community commissioning blockchain-native digital art.
- Foursquare Location intelligence and places-data platform for enterprises and developers.
- Ghost B2B marketplace helping brands and retailers buy and sell surplus inventory.
- Glif Creative AI super-agent orchestrating generative models for ads, video, and content production.
- Kiosk Farcaster social client integrating onchain assets into community commerce.
- Matter Labs Team behind zkSync — Ethereum Layer 2 scaling using zero-knowledge rollups.
- Mediachain Open blockchain metadata protocol for media attribution—acquired by Spotify in 2017.
- Merkle Manufactory, Inc. Developer of Farcaster, a decentralized social protocol with onchain identities and client apps.
- Nous Research Open-source AI lab behind the Hermes agent and distributed model-training infrastructure.
- Odyssey Energy Solutions Software and financing infrastructure for distributed renewable-energy projects in emerging markets.
- OpenBazaar Decentralized peer-to-peer marketplace protocol; OB1 was the company supporting development.
- Polychain Crypto-native hedge and venture firm founded by ex-Coinbase employee Olaf Carlson-Wee.
- Protocol Labs Research and development company behind IPFS, Filecoin, and libp2p decentralized web protocols.
- Radiant Portable micro-nuclear reactors for remote power and defense applications.
- Radiant Nuclear Portable microreactor company building Kaleidos for remote and defense energy.
- Shapeways 3D printing marketplace and on-demand manufacturing for designers and enterprises.
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