Union Square Ventures
VC Fund
New York, United States
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.
- Total investments:
- 539
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 43%
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Union Square Ventures invests in
Stages Union Square Ventures invests in
Countries Union Square Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Round size
- Seed
- $1.7M–$12M
- Series A
- $3.5M–$24M
- Series B
- $6M–$50M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 52 (10%)
- Financial Services 30 (6%)
- Artificial Intelligence 29 (5%)
- FinTech 28 (5%)
- Information Technology 25 (5%)
Stage
- Series A 137 (25%)
- Series B 90 (17%)
- Seed 77 (14%)
- Series C 61 (11%)
- Series D 30 (6%)
Country
- United States 186 (35%)
- United Kingdom 12 (2%)
- Germany 9 (2%)
- Canada 8 (1%)
- India 2 (0%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Hanel Baveja
Analyst
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Analyst | Total investments: 8 | Find email | |
Mona Alsubaei
Analyst
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Analyst | Total investments: 5 | Find email | |
Albert Wenger
Managing Partner
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Managing Partner | Total investments: 111 | Find email | |
Andrew Weissman
Managing Partner
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Managing Partner | Total investments: 55 | Find email | |
Bradford Burnham
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 23 | Find email | |
| See all 11 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mana Battery is a developer and producer of high-energy sodium-ion battery cells and sodium-ion electrolyte formulations. The company's battery cell platform enables similar or better energy density compared to "LFP" Li-ion at a projected half the cost, providing superior performance for applications in defense, grid energy storage,and low-cost electric vehicles. | $8.3M / Seed / Oct 09, 2026 | ||
| Nous Research is a decentralized AI startup that focuses on developing open-source, human-centric artificial intelligence models and tools. Its work encompasses large language model architecture, data synthesis, fine-tuning, and reasoning, aiming to align AI systems with real-world user experiences. In addition to model development, theorganization emphasizes decentralized AI training. It utilizes blockchain technology, specifically the Solana network, to coordinate and incentivize global participation in training its AI models. This approach allows individuals worldwide to contribute idle computing power for AI training, promoting a more distributed and collaborative development process. | $90M / Series B / Oct 07, 2026 | ||
| Tasklet is an AI agent and automation platform created by the founders of Shortwave. It is designed to act as an autonomous 24/7 teammate that completes complex workflows across the software stack, rather than answering questions like a standard chatbot. | $12.8M / Venture - Series Unknown / Oct 05, 2026 | ||
| Efficient Computer develops processor technology focused on improving energy efficiency for compute-intensive workloads. The company designs general-purpose processors and computing architectures that aim to reduce power consumption while maintaining performance across embedded and edge applications. Its technology is built to support artificialintelligence, signal processing, and other demanding tasks within constrained power environments. Efficient Computer provides hardware platforms and related tools that enable device manufacturers and developers to integrate energy-efficient processing into their products. The company’s offerings address applications where performance per watt is a key design consideration. | $97M / Series B / Sep 29, 2026 | ||
| Rune Energy is a developer of a computation technology intended to monetize underutilized and surplus clean power. | $40M / Series A / Sep 16, 2026 | ||
| Odyssey is at the center of one of the biggest economic and climate opportunities of our lifetime: the clean energy transition in emerging markets, where aging/weak grids, favorable policies, and high diesel costs are making distributed renewable energy systems THE energy infrastructure of the future. Odyssey provides financiers and renewableenergy project developers with leading-edge technologies and a data-driven software platform to aggregate and scale investment in distributed renewable energy. (DRE)Odyssey is the only end-to-end platform to scale project development across all phases: planning, financing, procuring, and operating projects. Our solutions solve the key challenges facing the distributed renewable energy industry in emerging markets:Planning + Finance Solutions: Financiers lack the information to navigate the investment landscape in many countries that most need their support. By leveraging our network of 2000+ renewable energy companies, we are helping private and concessional financiers access projects that were previously inaccessible. We have $1.3 billion of financing for distributed renewable energy projects on the platform and a pipeline of more than US$785 million in active discussions with concessional and commercial financiers. We also offer advanced software tools to efficiently plan projects, aggregate portfolios and streamline diligence between developers and investors.Procurement Solutions: Smaller renewable energy companies can’t access economies of scale pricing and terms when buying equipment. By aggregating their orders and connecting them with financing that would otherwise be out of reach, we help developers access equipment more quickly, reliably, and at better prices.Monitoring & Control Solutions: As renewable energy companies scale their operations, ensuring they are performing reliably and optimally is a challenge. We offer hardware and software to make it easy to spot any issues, remotely control components, as well as provide data back to investors about portfolio performance in the form of customized dashboards for commercial, financial, operational, and impact metrics. | $27M / Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 01, 2026 | ||
| Generalist AI is a robotics firm formed by a senior researcher who left Google to investigate robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) at Google Deepmind. | $200M / Series B / Aug 24, 2026 | ||
| Gritt Robotics is automating renewable energy construction using AI and Robotics. | $26M / Series A / Jul 21, 2026 | ||
| Pascal operates as an institutional-grade, decentralized prediction market platform engineered specifically for professional traders and corporate clients. The company bridges the gap between traditional event contracts and digital asset derivatives by utilizing a market structure modeled closely after perpetual futures rather than binary,fixed-date outcomes. Its core value proposition centers on delivering high-throughput, low-latency financial tools and deep order book liquidity with significantly lower transaction fees than legacy platforms. This specialized framework enables enterprises to programmatically hedge real commercial exposures and manage complex economic risks without relying on centralized intermediaries. | $9M / Series A / Jul 16, 2026 | ||
| Alqem is a Munich-based deep tech startup utilizing physics-informed artificial intelligence to design advanced materials. The company's primary focus is accelerating the discovery of rare-earth-free permanent magnets to support sustainable engineering. Their platform bridges the gap between quantum mechanics and artificial intelligence tosimulate material properties with high precision. By eliminating reliance on scarce raw materials, the company aims to secure and clean up global supply chains for electric vehicles and wind turbines. | $9.1M / Pre-Seed / Jul 06, 2026 | ||
| See all 539 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Union Square Ventures invest in?
Union Square Ventures invests primarily in Software, Financial Services and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 539 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Union Square Ventures invest in?
Union Square Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.7M–$12M at Seed, $3.5M–$24M at Series A and $6M–$50M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Union Square Ventures's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Union Square Ventures took part in.
How do I contact Union Square Ventures?
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Who are the partners at Union Square Ventures?
The team at Union Square Ventures includes Hanel Baveja (Analyst), Mona Alsubaei (Analyst) and Albert Wenger (Managing Partner), among 11 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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