Union Square Ventures


Finanças

Restaurant Industry Veteran Ben Leventhal Raises $11M for Web3 Startup Blackbird

Blackbird will offer a Web3 hospitality platform connecting restaurants with guests through membership and loyalty programs.

Blackbird founder Ben Leventhal (Blackbird)

Layer 2

How NFTs Put Generative Artists on the Map

Profile avatars emerged from a long tradition of artists expressing themselves through code, math and randomness. This article is part of CoinDesk’s Culture Week.

Artist Sol LeWitt with one of his instruction-based wall drawings in 1978. LeWitt is widely credited for his influence on the field of "generative art," which has benefited from NFT technology.

Finanças

Dune Analytics, Home of DIY Data Dashboards, Raises $8M in USV-Led Series A

Dune lets anyone with on-chain know-how share their data creations with the world.

A DeFi degen riding a mountain of Dune Analytics data

Mercados

Union Square Ventures to Allocate 30% of New $250M Fund to Crypto-Related Investments

Planned investments "will include holding tokens directly as well as equity in early-stage blockchain-related projects."

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Tecnologia

Numerai Raises $3M in Another NMR Token Sale With Union Square Ventures, Placeholder

Numerai has sold an additional $3 million in NMR tokens to a slate of investors led by Union Square Ventures on the strength of its latest product, Erasure.

Numerai founder Richard Craib at ErasureCon 2019 (Credit: Numerai)

Tecnologia

This USV-Backed Startup Has a Solution for Buying Information With Confidence

Erasure is a smart contract on Ethereum for people to share information and to express confidence about that information by putting money behind it.

Richard Craib, Numerai's founder, speaks in New York City, April 2019.

Mercados

Anchorage, Bison Trails Execs to Helm Libra's New 'Technical Steering Committee'

The Libra Association has formed a steering committee to oversee the creation of its technical roadmap.

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Mercados

Filecoin, But Forever: Arweave Raises $5 Million to Build Out 'Permaweb'

Arweave, a startup building a decentralized storage protocol for the world's knowledge, raises $5 million via token sale from a16z, USV and Multicoin.

Team photo via Arweave

Mercados

Libra Association's Crypto Members Remain Unfazed by Regulatory Backlash

Despite government scrutiny, crypto firms in the Libra Association say they're committed to the project.

USV and Coinbase at Consensus 2019

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