{"id":35497,"date":"2021-01-28T10:52:05","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T08:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=35497"},"modified":"2025-08-29T01:35:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T22:35:02","slug":"union-square-ventures-to-invest-about-75-million-in-cryptocurrency-startups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/union-square-ventures-to-invest-about-75-million-in-cryptocurrency-startups\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Square Ventures to invest about $75 million in cryptocurrency startups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Union Square Ventures (USV) plans to invest about 30% of its new $250 million fund into the cryptocurrency industry. This is stated in the <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.usv.com\/writing\/2021\/01\/usv-2021-fund\/\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener noreferrer\\\">USV blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;We plan to invest a significant portion of assets in the cryptocurrency industry, including direct ownership of tokens and equity in early-stage blockchain projects,&#8221; said Andy Weissman, managing partner of the firm.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>According to him, last year a number of fundamental shifts occurred that accelerated the digitisation of technology stacks.<\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>USV plans to invest in educational, healthcare and other socially oriented startups.<\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, the average venture deal size in the cryptocurrency industry <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/average-venture-deal-size-in-the-cryptocurrency-industry-rose-by-33-in-2020\">rose by 33%<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog&#8217;s Telegram news: ForkLog Feed \u2014 the full news feed, ForkLog \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Square Ventures (USV) plans to invest about 30% of its new $250 million fund into the cryptocurrency industry, according to the USV blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1133],"class_list":["post-35497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-venture-investments"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"8","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35499,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35497\/revisions\/35499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}