Union Square Ventures

Union Square Ventures
Type Private
Industry Venture capital
Headquarters New York City, New York, U.S.
Employees 6 (2010)[1]
Website www.unionsquareventures.com

Union Square Ventures is a venture capital firm based in New York City, New York, United States.

The firm was founded by Fred Wilson and Brad Burnham in 2004. Albert Wenger became a partner of the firm in 2008[2].

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Team

The firm is made up of the following Partners:

Investments

Company Description
10gen software (creators of MongoDB)
Boxee media center software
Disqus
DuckDuckGo[4] search engine
Etsy
FeedBurner
Flurry mobile analytics
Foursquare (service) Location-Based Social Networking
Heyzap
Indeed.com
Meetup.com
Shapeways[5] Online 3D printing marketplace
SoundCloud social audio distribution
Stack Overflow[6] family of Q&A sites
Tacoda
Tumblr micro blogging
Twilio
Twitter micro blogging
Zemanta
Zynga social gaming

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References

  1. ^ http://www.unionsquareventures.com/team/index.php
  2. ^ http://www.crunchbase.com/financial-organization/union-square-ventures
  3. ^ Betabeat http://www.betabeat.com/2011/09/15/exclusive-andy-weissman-leaves-betawork-for-union-square-ventures/
  4. ^ Burnham, Brad (October 2011). "Duck Duck Go". http://www.usv.com/2011/10/duck-duck-go.php. Retrieved 14 October 2011. 
  5. ^ "Shapeways and Its 3-D Printing Comes To New York". http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/23/shapeways-and-its-3-d-printing-comes-to-new-york/. 
  6. ^ Joel Spolsky (May 3, 2010). "Announcing the Stack Overflow Series A Financing". Stack Overflow Blog. http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/05/announcing-our-series-a/. Retrieved May 4, 2010. 
  7. ^ http://www.unionsquareventures.com/portfolio.html

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