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Union Square Ventures is a venture capital firm based in NYC. We invest at the edge of large markets being transformed by technological and societal pressures
New York, NY
Joined May 2008
AI is getting more personal. That means it needs your memory. We’re at a fork in the road: build open systems that keep memory portable, or sleepwalk into another era of lock-in.
Who will own our digital memory?. As AI platforms ask us to entrust our memories to them, we risk endless reintroductions to every AI or (worse) seeing our digital selves held hostage by a single AI overlord. 1st in a 2-part blog series up now on building an open architecture
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Now anyone can build secure, decentralized messaging that even tomorrow’s computers can’t break.
As of today, XMTP is now a fully quantum-resistant decentralized messaging protocol. This means, any developer, anywhere in the world can leverage XMTP to provide their users with private, decentralized, & quantum-resistant messaging.
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RT @IPlayedD1: Being able to get lit review level detail on science questions on my phone is not something I ever dreamed would be possible….
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Almost 5 million scientific papers will be published this year, but most will never be read. Not because they don't matter, but because they're buried. Consensus is the AI research stack. Search, reason, and reference in one tool.
Introducing: Consensus Deep Search 🔬. Deep Search is a research agent that conducts literature reviews across 200M academic papers in two minutes.
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RT @ystrickler: The work that changes everything rarely goes viral. It builds slowly, finds the right people, and creates lasting impact ov….
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Few entrepreneurs are as obsessed with solving real customer problems as @benleventhal. At every major platform shift, he's shown up, building a better future for restauranteurs. Always pushing the industry forward, always on the side of the people who power it.
I spoke w/ @benleventhal for the latest ep of the slow hunch. Ben’s built @eater, @resy, and now @blackbird_xyz -- all anchored in one belief: restaurants are universally loved but fundamentally broken businesses. Ben’s spent 20+ years building toward a better model for what is
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RT @RadiantNuclear: Want to see pure joy? Watch the moment @DougBernauer and Tori Shivanandan tell the team that @ENERGY selected Radiant t….
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RT @RadiantNuclear: BIG news! @ENERGY has just picked Radiant to test at @INL next year - the first new reactor design tested there in almo….
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RT @uninsightful: hosting an event this Thursday focused on quantum and its implications for bitcoin . co-hosts: @qdayclock @apruden08 @Fin….
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RT @matthewjmandel: This was so incredibly fun– thanks to everyone who came out and made today such a mindblowing experience. And special t….
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RT @emmanuelBHarel: Haven’t been to an event this exciting in a long time…. 🗽Biohacking Demo Day 2.0: @usv x @CompoundVC in NYC. The future….
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RT @kaminskymethod: This event was a highlight of the last month. Thank you to @usv @matthewjmandel @usvlibrarian for hosting.
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RT @eperlste: Nice to see @bryan_johnson in the house at the @usv Biohacking Demo Day organized by @shelbynewsad . Don’t Die is alive and w….
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RT @0x1F9ED: At @CompoundVC and @usv biohacking day. Thanks @shelbynewsad for extending the invite! . Pictured back of head: @kubla from….
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RT @oldestasian: A teaser graph with data I've never shared publicly. I'll explain everything later this week after presenting it at the US….
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RT @JackLongarzo: Quantum computers are on track to break Bitcoin’s cryptography within our lifetimes. When this happens your keys won’t sa….
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RT @ostrom_de: 🚀 Ostrom has raised 20m € in a Series B round led by Eneco Ventures, bringing total funding to over 40m €. Existing investor….
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RT @kirstenagreen: Updates for Humans in the Loop next week — we have added two fireside chats: @reidhoffman and @mikeyk!. Join us ⚡️⚡️ htt….
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On June 24th we’re bringing together leading optimizers, operators, scientists, and all those in between, for a focused discussion around what's next for biohacking. Want to attend? Sign up below.
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