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Employees5
Founded12/05

Offices

[map] New York, USA
915 Broadway
Suite 1408
New York, NY, 10010
USA

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Union Square Ventures

“Union Square Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm based in New York City. We invest in young companies that use information technology in innovative ways to create high growth business opportunities in the Media, Marketing, Financial Services, Telecommunications, and Healthcare industries.

Our venture capital firm was conceived as a place where a small number of very experienced investment professionals, working collaboratively from a single office, could build a portfolio of promising startup companies and then put our experience and our networks to work to help those companies build valuable businesses.

Over the past 17 years, we have been directly involved in the development of 40 companies and have, through our prior firms, participated in the launch of over 120 companies. That experience has convinced us that we can deliver the highest returns to our investors by doing the work of venture capital ourselves, from sourcing investments, through due diligence and supporting our portfolio companies, to ultimately exiting the investments.

For an entrepreneur looking for venture capital, this means that you will be dealing with a principal of the firm from day one. If we chose to invest our time in your business, you can be sure that we are serious about investing our capital as well. As a portfolio company, you will be supported by a partner who has been directly involved with your company since the initial investment consideration. We will, as a result, be able to quickly identify opportunities to contribute to the development of your company whether you need to round out your management team, connect with a potential customer, or find a strategic partner. Our ongoing, direct involvement will also enable you to react quickly to financing, acquisition, or exit opportunities. ” (Source: Union Square Ventures)

Investments

Company Date Round Size Participants
Bug Labs 8/08Series C3
Clickable 7/08Series B$14.5M3
Meetup 7/08Series D$7.5M3
Zynga 7/08Series B$29M4
10gen 7/08Series A$1.5M1
Outside.in 5/08Series A$3M5
Twitter 5/08Series C$15M4
Pinch Media 5/08Seed6
Covestor 4/08Series A$6.5M3
Disqus 3/08Series A$500k1
Zynga 1/08Series A$10M10
Etsy 1/08Series C$27M3
Clickable 11/07Series A$3M4
Tumblr 10/07Series A$750k2
Outside.in 10/07Angel$1.5M7
Etsy 7/07Series B$3.25M1
Twitter 7/07Series B$5.4M7
Clickable 7/07Series A$3M4
Wesabe 6/07Series A$4M2
AdaptiveBlue 2/07Series A$1.5M1
Outside.in 2/07Angel$900k9
Etsy 11/06Series A$1M1
Indeed 8/05Series A$5M3
delicious 4/05Seed3
Bug Labs Series A3

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  1. We’ve raised a third round of funding (bugblogger.com) [edit]
  2. Clickable Raises $14.5 Million More For Online Ad Management (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  3. Our Newest Portfolio Company: Meetup (avc.blogs.com) [edit]
  4. techcrunch.com [edit]
  5. 10gen, New Cloud Computing Firm, Closes $1.5m Series A (10gen.com) [edit]
  6. Local Content Aggregator Outside.in Gets $3 Million Third Round (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  7. Twitter Announces Their Funding, Calls Itself A Communication Utility (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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