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Union Square Ventures

Quick Chat with USV’s Andy Weissman

By Semil Shah Roughly five years ago, Andy Weissman was recruited from the startup studio that he’d cofounded — Betaworks — to join the influential, New York-based venture firm Union Square Ventures as a partner. Just last month, Weissman was officially named one of its key men, too. We caught up with him last week to ask whether and […]

Filed Under: Firm Dynamics Tagged With: Andy Weissman, Union Square Ventures

Big-League LP: “It’s a Good Time to Be Asking Questions”

Roughly one year ago, FLAG Capital Management, the limited partnership, revealed that after 20 years, Diana Frazier would step down from her role as co-head of U.S. venture capital, and that Peter Denious, who formerly headed the firm’s emerging markets efforts, would assume her role. Denious has been fairly quiet since then, possibly because the […]

Filed Under: Firm Dynamics, Fundraising Tagged With: Accel Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, FLAG Capital Management, Peter Denious, Redpoint Ventures, Spark Capital, Union Square Ventures

CircleUp Carves Out a Niche, as the AngelList of Private Equity

CircleUp isn’t a household name. But the three-year-old, San Francisco-based crowdfunding site has become well-known to consumer and retail companies that are too small to interest private equity firms yet growing too fast for a bank loan. So far, 70 businesses with yearly revenue of between $1 million and $10 million have raised an average […]

Filed Under: Entrepreneurs, Investment Opportunities, Morning Summary Tagged With: Canaan Partners, CircleUp, Google Ventures, Rory Eakin, Ryan Caldbeck, Union Square Ventures

Albert Wenger Takes the Long View

Earlier this week, Albert Wenger, a managing partner at Union Square Ventures, departed from the standard VC script of promoting his own startups to discourse about the future of mankind. He shared his views on stage at the DLD (for Digital Life Design) conference in Munich. More specifically, he talked about where we are in […]

Filed Under: Firm Dynamics Tagged With: Albert Wenger, Union Square Ventures

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