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Last summer I sat down with Tom Secunda, who co-founded Bloomberg LP with Mike Bloomberg, to talk about areas of shared philanthropic interest. Tom told me that academic institutions do not have ...

https://avc.com/2024/01/empire-ai/

As we enter 2024, the capital markets have found their footing and are moving higher. The Fed has taken interest rates as far as they want at this time and inflation has come down. It seems that ...

https://avc.com/2024/01/what-will-happen-in-2024/

I like to bookend the New Year holiday with two posts, one looking back at the year that is ending (What Happened) and one looking forward to the year ahead (What Will Happen). This is the first ...

https://avc.com/2023/12/what-happened-in-2023/

NYC Tech Week is next week. It will be a week filled with events for the tech sector to engage and connect with each other. A particularly great part of tech week is VC Open Office Hours. There a...

https://avc.com/2023/10/open-office-hours-at-nyc-tech-week/

The New York Times had a piece yesterday suggesting that tech will no longer be a growth engine for NYC and the surrounding metro area as it has been for the last twenty years. I am not going to ...

https://avc.com/2023/07/the-new-york-tech-sector/

The venture capital sector has been in a sustained downturn for almost eighteen months. How does this downturn end? Well, it may have already ended, but let’s see about that. We will know for s...

https://avc.com/2023/07/how-this-ends-part-three/

Back in 2014, USV got subpoenaed by the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) over our web3 investing activities. We hired a law firm, answered the subpoena, and that ultimately l...

https://avc.com/2023/05/the-freedom-to-innovate/

Last Thursday, three new blog posts hit USV.com announcing our three new analysts: This is our tradition at USV. When someone starts at USV, we ask them to write a post on the USV blog introducin...

https://avc.com/2023/03/the-newest-members-of-the-usv-team/

I saw Dan Primack assert that the venture capitalist’s customer is their limited partners in this tweet about the Citizen app, the recap, and their VCs: I DM’d Dan to let him know that is not...

https://avc.com/2023/02/the-vcs-customer/

When a new technology comes to market, we often look for “native” applications of that technology. What is a “native” AI application? What is a “native” Web3 application? I have not s...

https://avc.com/2023/02/what-does-native-mean/