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Jun 4, 2023

We are proud to announce our participation in the Historic Fund, a new initiative supporting HBCUs in the United States. We have invited a number of HBCUs to be limited partners in venture capital funds without having to invest their ...

Sep 6, 2022

As we pre-announced a week ago, the time has come again for a new USV analyst cohort. This blog post lays out what the USV analyst program is and how you apply for it, including FAQs that we will update ...

Aug 25, 2022

It is hard to believe but well over two years have passed since Hannah, Hanel and David joined us as analysts at USV (David left midstream to start Primitives and Mona joined us). This means we are about to kick ...

Apr 6, 2022

Co-authored by John Buttrick Of the world’s 2,000 largest public companies, at least 21% now have net-zero commitments. For most of these companies, even with significant emissions reduction, carbon offsetting will be essential to achieving their goals. In fact, all ...

Jan 26, 2021

We are pleased to announce that USV has raised a 2021 Core Fund with commitments of $250 million. This Core Fund will complement our new Climate Fund and existing Opportunity Fund. This will be USV’s seventh early-stage venture fund since ...

Feb 6, 2020

After reviewing 345 applications, interviewing 30 candidates, and inviting 11 to meet us in person, we are excited to announce that we have 3 incredible analysts joining USV in the coming weeks. We recognize that our process is a bit ...

Jan 24, 2020

Some of the ways we've expanded what it means to be a part of the USV network in 2019 ...

Dec 20, 2019

We are in the final stages of our first cut for our 2020 Analyst Program. The next stage is phone/video interviews for a subset of the applicants.  We will be reaching out to those candidates over the next 2 weeks [...] (https://www.usv.com/writing/2019/12/update-on-2020-analyst-recruiting/)

Nov 25, 2019

We are excited to announce that we are again recruiting new analysts at USV. As is tradition, analysts at USV join our firm for a two-year "tour of duty," where they sit on the investment team and work closely with ...