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title: "Union Square Ventures: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: "Union Square Ventures (USV) is an American venture capital firm based in New York City. The firm has backed more than 130 startups, including Twitter, Etsy, Stripe, Coinbase, Zynga, Tumblr, Stack Overflow, Meetup, Kickstarter, MongoDB, Flurry, Cloudflare, Duolingo, Soundcloud, Clue, and Carta."
canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-union-square-ventures
type: Organization
wikidata: Q4355661
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Square_Ventures
website: http://usv.com
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
---

# Union Square Ventures

> Union Square Ventures (USV) is an American venture capital firm based in New York City. The firm has backed more than 130 startups, including Twitter, Etsy, Stripe, Coinbase, Zynga, Tumblr, Stack Overflow, Meetup, Kickstarter, MongoDB, Flurry, Cloudflare, Duolingo, Soundcloud, Clue, and Carta.

Read on the web: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-union-square-ventures

## Facts

- Category: Artificial intelligence
- Country: United States
- Founded: 2003-01-01
- Headquarters: New York City
- Status: private
- Website: http://usv.com

## Accounts

- x: https://x.com/usv
- linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/union-square-ventures

## Key people

- Fred Wilson, founder (American venture capitalist and blogger)

## Coverage on the Monitor

Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on Union Square Ventures, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-union-square-ventures#connections

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4355661, read 2026-11-11
- Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Square_Ventures

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