The firm has backed more than 130 startups, including Twitter, Etsy, Stripe, Coinbase, Zynga, Tumblr, Stack Overflow, Meetup, Kickstarter, MongoDB, Flurry, and Carta.

They created USV with the intent of investing in and fostering the development of early-stage companies.

[3] Since its establishment, USV is one of the companies that are regularly included in Red Herring’s lists of top venture capital firms.

[6] In 2011 USV was chosen as the best-performing venture capital firm the United States, based on investment return rate.

[11] In 2021, Samson Mesele, previously a corporate attorney at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, joined USV as general counsel and partner.