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Union Square Ventures

Founders Brad Burnham Fred Wilson

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Total investments 454
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$35M
Portfolio companies 204
Rounds per year 21.62
Lead investments 98
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.55
Exits 48
Key employees 8
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
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Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Financial Services
  • Internet
  • FinTech
  • Marketplace
Summary

In 2004 was created Union Square Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The main department of described VC is located in the New York. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Twitter, Coinbase, Zynga. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are FinTech, Financial Services.

The fund was created by Brad Burnham, Fred Wilson. Besides them, we counted 8 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Union Square Ventures, startups are often financed by Version One Ventures, First Round Capital, Avalon Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Time Warner Investments, GV, Version One Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Time Warner Investments, Kleiner Perkins, Flybridge Capital Partners.

The real fund results show that this VC is 20 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. Comparing to the other companies, this Union Square Ventures performs on 16 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The high activity for fund was in 2013. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The fund is constantly included in 13-24 investment rounds annually. The average startup value when the investment from Union Square Ventures is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Anthro Energy

Battery
Manufacturing
$20M29 Feb 2024 San Jose, California, United States

Abridge

Health Care
Medical
Software
$150M23 Feb 2024 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Code

Payments
Transaction Processing
$6M06 Feb 2024 Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Transmutex

Nuclear
Renewable Energy
$21M29 Jan 2024 Geneve, Geneva, Switzerland

Revos

Automotive
$20M05 Oct 2023 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Blackbird

Hospitality
Information Technology
$24M04 Oct 2023 New York, New York, United States

Mundi

Financial Services
Information Technology
Trading Platform
$15M25 Sep 2023 Mexico, Guerrero, Mexico

Ostrom

Clean Energy
CleanTech
Electrical Distribution
Energy
GreenTech
Renewable Energy
$8M07 Sep 2023 -

Lydian

Chemical
Chemical Engineering
Manufacturing
$12M06 Sep 2023 Salem, Massachusetts, United States
News
Drone data analytics provider DroneBase nabs $20M

– DroneBase, a company providing drones as a service to capture high-resolution aerial photos, announced that it raised $20 million in a funding round led by Euclidean Capital with participation from Union Square Ventures, Upfront Ventures, Energy Transition Ventures, Hearst Ventures, Pritzker Group Venture Capital, and Valor Equity Partners.
– The company says that the funds will be put toward expansion in the renewable energy industry and other segments with “high-value” infrastructure, like commercial real estate and insurance.
– Investments in drone startups are growing as the benefits of AI applied to aerial photography become clear. For example, algorithms analyze images from drones to monitor for corrosion, pests, and even livestock health. And insurers like State Farm leverage drones for claims inspections, assessing on-the-ground damage, and emergency resources following a disaster.

Code Climate Raises $50M in Series C Funding to Propel Its Engineering Intelligence Platform

– Code Climate announced $50M in Series C funding.
– The round was led by PSG and joined by previous investors Union Square Ventures, Foundry Group, Lerer Hippeau Ventures, and NextView Ventures.
– Code Climate’s Engineering Intelligence products are trusted by over 1,000 companies from start-ups to enterprises.
– Code Climate experienced continued strong growth, more than doubled its headcount, and brought on an experienced executive leadership team.
– Funding will help Code Climate advance its product vision, extend its sales reach, and scale customer success – furthering its mission of helping engineering align activities with strategic priorities, deliver high quality software, and improve team performance.

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Total investments 454
Average round size 35M
Rounds per year 21.62
Peak activity year 2022
Lead investments 98
Follow on index 0.55
Exits 48
Group Appearance index 0.94

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Anthro Energy

Battery
Manufacturing
$20M29 Feb 2024 San Jose, California, United States

Abridge

Health Care
Medical
Software
$150M23 Feb 2024 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Code

Payments
Transaction Processing
$6M06 Feb 2024 Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Transmutex

Nuclear
Renewable Energy
$21M29 Jan 2024 Geneve, Geneva, Switzerland

Revos

Automotive
$20M05 Oct 2023 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Blackbird

Hospitality
Information Technology
$24M04 Oct 2023 New York, New York, United States

Mundi

Financial Services
Information Technology
Trading Platform
$15M25 Sep 2023 Mexico, Guerrero, Mexico

Ostrom

Clean Energy
CleanTech
Electrical Distribution
Energy
GreenTech
Renewable Energy
$8M07 Sep 2023 -

Lydian

Chemical
Chemical Engineering
Manufacturing
$12M06 Sep 2023 Salem, Massachusetts, United States
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