Union Square Ventures
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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.
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Venture capital
Venture capital is financial capital provided to early-stage, high-potential, high risk, growth startup companies. The venture capital fund makes money by owning equity in the companies it invests in, which usually have a novel technology or business model in high technology industries, such as...
firm based in New York City, New York, United States.
The firm was founded by Fred Wilson
Fred Wilson (financier)
Fred Wilson is a New York-based venture capitalist and a prominent blogger. Due to his successful investment track record and community involvement, he is recognized as a leading voice of the venture capital finance community in New York...
and Brad Burnham in 2004. Albert Wenger became a partner of the firm in 2008.
Team
The firm is made up of the following PartnersPartnership
A partnership is an arrangement where parties agree to cooperate to advance their mutual interests.Since humans are social beings, partnerships between individuals, businesses, interest-based organizations, schools, governments, and varied combinations thereof, have always been and remain commonplace...
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- Brad Burnham, founder and former general partner at AT&T Ventures
- Fred WilsonFred Wilson (financier)Fred Wilson is a New York-based venture capitalist and a prominent blogger. Due to his successful investment track record and community involvement, he is recognized as a leading voice of the venture capital finance community in New York...
, founder and also managing partner at Flatiron Ventures - Albert Wenger, former President of Del.icio.us (acquired by Yahoo!)
- In September 2011, Andy Weissman joined Union Square Ventures from betaworks.
Investments
| Company | Description |
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| 10gen 10gen 10gen is a software company that develops and provides commercial support for the open source database MongoDB.-Overview:10gen was founded in 2007 by former DoubleClick Founder and CTO Dwight Merriman and former DoubleClick engineer and ShopWiki Founder and CTO Eliot Horowitz... |
software (creators of MongoDB MongoDB MongoDB is an open source, high-performance, schema-free, document-oriented database written in the C++ programming language... ) |
| Boxee BOXEE Boxee is a cross-platform freeware HTPC software application with a 10-foot user interface and social networking features designed for the living-room TV... |
media center software |
| Disqus Disqus Disqus is an online discussion and commenting service for websites and online communities that uses a networked platform. The company’s platform includes various features, such as social integration, social networking, user profiles, spam and moderation tools, analytics, email notifications, and... |
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| DuckDuckGo | search engine |
| Etsy Etsy Etsy is an e-commerce website focused on handmade or vintage items as well as art and craft supplies. These items cover a wide range including art, photography, clothing, jewelry, edibles, bath & beauty products, quilts, knick-knacks and toys. Many individuals also sell craft supplies like beads,... |
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| FeedBurner FeedBurner FeedBurner is a web feed management provider launched in 2004. FeedBurner was founded by Dick Costolo, Eric Lunt, Steve Olechowski, and Matt Shobe. Costolo, a University of Michigan graduate, became CEO of Twitter in 2010... |
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| Flurry Flurry Flurry may refer to:* A snow flurry; that is, a brief snow shower* Flurry, a Mac OS X screensaver* Flurry, a Super Mario series enemy character* Flurry, a mobile analytics and monetization platform... |
mobile analytics |
| Foursquare (service) Foursquare (service) Foursquare, stylized as foursquare, is a location-based social networking website for mobile devices, such as smartphones. Users "check-in" at venues using a mobile website, text messaging or a device-specific application by selecting from a list of venues the application locates nearby... |
Location-Based Social Networking |
| Heyzap Heyzap Heyzap is a social discovery platform for mobile and online games and the largest social network for mobile gamers. Heyzap is based in San Francisco and was founded in 2009 by Jude Gomila and Immad Akhund. Heyzap provides users with a way to check-in to their favorite games, discover games and join... |
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| Indeed.com Indeed.com Indeed.com is a metasearch engine for job listings launched in November 2004. As a single-topic search engine, it is also an example of vertical search. The site aggregates job listings from thousands of websites, including job boards, newspapers, associations, and company career pages. Job seekers... |
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| Meetup.com Meetup.com Meetup is an online social networking portal that facilitates offline group meetings in various localities around the world. Meetup allows members to find and join groups unified by a common interest, such as politics, books, games, movies, health, pets, careers or hobbies... |
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| Shapeways Shapeways Shapeways is a 3D printing service. Users upload design files and Shapeways prints the objects for them or others. Users can have objects printed from a variety of materials, including food safe ceramics.... |
Online 3D printing 3D printing 3D printing is a form of additive manufacturing technology where a three dimensional object is created by laying down successive layers of material. 3D printers are generally faster, more affordable, and easier to use than other additive manufacturing technologies. However, the term 3D printing is... marketplace |
| SoundCloud SoundCloud SoundCloud is an online audio distribution platform which allows collaboration, promotion and distribution of audio recordings.-History:SoundCloud was originally started in Stockholm, Sweden, but was established in Berlin, Germany in August, 2007 by sound designer Alex Ljung and artist Eric Wahlforss... |
social audio distribution |
| Stack Overflow Stack overflow In software, a stack overflow occurs when too much memory is used on the call stack. The call stack contains a limited amount of memory, often determined at the start of the program. The size of the call stack depends on many factors, including the programming language, machine architecture,... |
family of Q&A sites |
| Tacoda Tacoda Tacoda was an advertising network company and is based in the United States. It was acquired by AOL on July 23, 2007.... |
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| Tumblr Tumblr Tumblr is a website and microblogging platform that allows users to post text, images, videos, links, quotes and audio to their tumblelog, a short-form blog. Users can follow other users, or choose to make their tumblelog private. The service emphasizes ease of use. The site ranks as the 10th... |
micro blogging |
| Twilio Twilio Twilio is a cloud communications IaaS company based in San Francisco, California. Twilio allows software developers to programmatically make and receive phone calls and send and receive text messages using its web service APIs... |
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| Twitter Twitter Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July... |
micro blogging |
| Zemanta Zemanta Zemanta is a content suggestion engine for bloggers and other content creators.- Features :Zemanta analyzes user-generated content using natural language processing and semantic search technology to suggest pictures, tags and links to related articles.Zemanta suggests content from Wikipedia,... |
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| Zynga Zynga Zynga is a social network game developer located in San Francisco, United States. The company develops browser-based games that work both stand-alone and as application widgets on social networking websites such as Facebook and MySpace.... |
social gaming |
External links
- Union Square Ventures (official website)