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Union Square Ventures (USV) is a New York-based venture capital firm that manages assets totaling $650 million as of January 2014〔Union Square Ventures Site,("About Page" ) Jan 18, 2014〕 The firm is best known for its early investments in companies including Zynga, Twitter and Tumblr.〔Fortune Magazine,("Union Square Ventures Discloses New Fund Details and Maybe a New Partner" ) Dec 28, 2010〕 Additionally, the firm's founder, Fred Wilson, has acquired a celebrity status in the Tech world stemming in part to his blog AVC.com〔Moz ("Rise of the Celebrity Investor" ) Nov 07, 2010〕〔TechCrunch ("The Top 20 VC Power Bloggers of 2010" ) Jan 19, 2011〕〔"TechStars"("Fred Wilson Bio" ) Jan 18, 2014〕〔"Ad Age"("NYC's Top VC Fred Wilson is Rich…and Grumpy" ) Apr 17, 2011〕 ==Firm== Union Square Ventures was originally founded in 2003 by Fred Wilson (a former partner of Flatiron Partners) and Brad Burnham (a former Executor in Residence with AT&T Ventures). The two men created USV with the intent of investing in and fostering the development of early stage companies.〔"New York Times"(A New Kind of Venture Capitalist Makes Small Bets on Young Firms" ) Sept 22, 2008〕 Their investments are “mostly U.S.-based Internet and mobile companies considered to be ‘disruptive’”.〔Wall Street Journal,("Union Square Ventures Rides Twitter and Tumblr Exits on Fundraising Trail" ) Nov 21, 2013〕 In 2007, Albert Wenger, the former president of del.icio.us, joined the firm as a partner. The team was rounded out by the subsequent additions of John Buttrick and Betaworks founder Andy Weissman. USV is one of a handful of firms that regularly included in Red Herring’s lists of top venture capital firms.〔Red Herring ("Maximizing Venture Capital Investments" ) May 1, 2012〕 In 2011, USV was deemed as being the best performing VC in the US based on investment return rate.〔Business Insider ("It's Official: Union Square Ventures Is The Top VC in the World" ) April 9, 2011〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Union Square Ventures」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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