The Librarian
Aug 6, 2025
USV is looking for an AI Lead — a technical operator who will help us reimagine how a venture firm develops theses, finds companies, and supports its portfolio in the AI era. You’ll be the builder-in-chief: prototyping tools that help us [...]
Jan 15, 2025
Two profound things are happening right now for entrepreneurs. First, AI is creating an entirely new set of capabilities for people to build new experiences and solve new problems. In the same way mobile and the cloud unlocked a new [...]
Jan 7, 2025
In a world stripped of mythologies and starved of transcendent purpose, something profound has shifted in human ambition. Our ancestors built soaring cathedrals reaching toward heaven, monuments to their desire to be closer to God. Today we build data centers [...]
Dec 19, 2024
Human-powered and AI-curated, Microfiche offers a 90-second sprint through the past month at USV. From early conversations to signed term sheets, we cover the full spectrum of our work. Perhaps due to the holidays, this month our focus was especially [...]
Nov 21, 2024
Sharing music has always been central to USV. Over the firm’s lifetime, we’ve invested in companies like SoundCloud, Mediachain, turntable.fm, Sofar Sounds, and Splice. Back in ‘91, one of us hosted a public access television show called Underground Railroad: Independent [...]
Nov 20, 2024
Human-powered and AI-curated, Microfiche is a 90-second sprint through the last month at USV. From our early conversations to signed term sheets, we cover the full scope of our work. Here's what caught our eye this month. We'd love to [...]