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:
- 523
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 44%
- 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
- $2M–$12M
- Series A
- $3.3M–$24M
- Series B
- $6M–$45M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 49 (9%)
- Financial Services 29 (6%)
- FinTech 27 (5%)
- Artificial Intelligence 27 (5%)
- Information Technology 25 (5%)
Stage
- Series A 135 (26%)
- Series B 87 (17%)
- Seed 74 (14%)
- Series C 58 (11%)
- Series D 30 (6%)
Country
- United States 180 (34%)
- United Kingdom 12 (2%)
- Germany 9 (2%)
- Canada 8 (2%)
- 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 | |
Andy 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
| Fomo is a cutting-edge fintech startup revolutionizing the financial landscape through innovative technology and strategic partnerships. | $75M / Series B / Jun 22, 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. | $400M / Series B / Jun 04, 2026 | ||
| Suno is a music start-up that enables anyone to make the songs they want. The company aims to help people rediscover the joy of play and exploration. | $400M / Series D / Jun 03, 2026 | ||
| Board is a 24-inch tabletop gaming console that blends the tactile, face-to-face interaction of traditional board games with the immersive and dynamic elements of video games. Designed to bring people together physically around a table, it features 12 exclusive games across arcade, strategy, action, and more, each controlled by unique physicalpieces that make gameplay intuitive. Suitable for players aged 6 and up, Board supports solo, cooperative, and competitive play, making it ideal for family game nights and social gatherings, with parental controls and no mature content. It offers a fresh, social, and interactive gaming experience that encourages engagement and fun for players of all skill levels. | $20M / Series A / Jun 02, 2026 | ||
| Status AI is an AI-driven social simulation platform that combines elements of social media, roleplaying, fanfiction, and interactive storytelling. The platform allows users to create digital personas, interact with AI-generated characters, and participate in fictional or user-created worlds through posts, replies, events, and direct interactions.Its system uses AI models that adapt to user choices and maintain ongoing character relationships and story progression over time. The company also incorporates multiplayer and community-based features, enabling users to build collaborative narratives and participate in shared timelines with other players. According to information published on its website and related company profiles, the platform primarily focuses on immersive social entertainment experiences for users interested in fandom communities, character-driven interactions, and AI-assisted storytelling. | $17M / Series A / May 19, 2026 | ||
| See all 523 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Union Square Ventures invest in?
Union Square Ventures invests primarily in Software, Financial Services and FinTech startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 523 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Union Square Ventures's check size?
Union Square Ventures typically joins rounds of $2M–$12M at Seed, $3.3M–$24M at Series A and $6M–$45M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Union Square Ventures participates in.
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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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