Union Square Ventures

Venture Capital

Profile

Founded
2003
Headquarters
New York, US
Investments
43
Companies
14

Capital

Total Deployed
$1.5B
Lead Rounds
12

Portfolio

14 companies
Carta $1.2B
Private San Francisco, United States

Carta is an ownership management platform that helps companies, investors, and employees manage equity and ownership. The company provides cap table management, 409A valuations, fund administration, and equity plan management, serving over 35,000 startups and 200+ venture funds.

Zynga $1.0B
Acquired San Francisco, United States

Zynga was a social game developer and operator known for creating some of the most popular games on Facebook and mobile platforms, including FarmVille, Words With Friends, and Zynga Poker. The company pioneered free-to-play social gaming and became one of the largest game developers in the world before being acquired by Take-Two Interactive in 2022.

Dapper Labs $605M
Private Vancouver, Canada

Dapper Labs builds consumer applications for the tokenized economy, creating CryptoKitties (which introduced the ERC-721 NFT standard), NBA Top Shot, NFL ALL DAY, and the Flow blockchain. The company is one of the most prominent in the NFT and Web3 space, enabling people to own, earn, and trade digital assets from major brands.

Radiant Industries $519M
Private El Segundo, United States

Radiant Industries develops portable nuclear microreactors designed to replace diesel generators with clean, zero-emissions power. The company's flagship product, Kaleidos, is a 1 MW reactor that fits inside a shipping container. Founded by former SpaceX engineers, Radiant plans to mass-produce microreactors from its factory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

Coinbase $506M
Public San Francisco, US

Cryptocurrency exchange and blockchain platform

Addi $256M
Private Bogota, Colombia

Addi is a Colombian fintech company that provides buy now, pay later services across Latin America. The platform enables consumers to access point-of-sale credit at partner merchants both online and in physical stores, serving over 2.5 million customers and 27,000+ merchants in Colombia, Brazil, and Mexico.

Twilio $233M
Public San Francisco, United States

Cloud communications platform that provides programmable APIs for voice, SMS, video, and email, enabling developers to embed communication capabilities directly into their applications. Twilio powers customer engagement for hundreds of thousands of businesses worldwide.

Duolingo $183M
Public Pittsburgh, US

Language learning platform used by over 100 million monthly active users. Gamified approach to education with courses in 40+ languages. Founded by the creator of reCAPTCHA, Duolingo went public in 2021 and has expanded into math, music, and ABC literacy.

Cloudflare $182M
Public San Francisco, US

Web infrastructure and security company providing content delivery network, DDoS mitigation, Internet security, and distributed DNS services, helping to build a faster, more secure internet for millions of websites and applications.

Uniswap Labs $178M
Private New York, United States

Uniswap Labs builds the Uniswap Protocol, the largest decentralized exchange (DEX) on Ethereum and the pioneer of the automated market maker (AMM) model for on-chain token trading. The protocol has processed over $4 trillion in cumulative trading volume. Uniswap Labs also developed the UNI governance token and Unichain, its own Ethereum Layer-2 blockchain.

Nurx $116M
Acquired

Telehealth platform providing accessible and affordable healthcare with prescriptions delivered to patients' doors. Started with birth control and PrEP (HIV prevention), then expanded to STI testing, HPV screening, herpes treatment, migraine care, and dermatology. At its peak, Nurx served over 750,000 active patients. Founded by two Norwegian high school classmates who saw how difficult it was to access basic reproductive healthcare.

Codecademy $83M
Acquired New York, US

Interactive online coding education platform offering free and premium courses in programming languages including Python, JavaScript, SQL, and more. Grew to over 50 million learners worldwide before being acquired by Skillsoft in 2022 for $525 million.

Modern Fertility $22M
Acquired

Women's health company that made fertility hormone testing accessible and affordable through at-home testing kits. The flagship product measured up to 10 fertility hormones via a simple finger-prick, providing personalized reports and fertility timelines. Expanded into ovulation tracking kits, pregnancy tests, and prenatal vitamins. Founded by a former 23andMe product lead after a personal health scare revealed the gap in accessible fertility information.

Arweave $13M
Private London, United Kingdom

Arweave is a decentralized permanent data storage network that uses a blockchain-based structure called a "blockweave" to store data indefinitely. The protocol enables a "permaweb" where websites, applications, and files are preserved permanently without risk of deletion or censorship.

Investment data is compiled from multiple independent sources including company announcements, press coverage, and regulatory filings. While we strive for accuracy, amounts and dates may reflect reported figures at time of announcement.