Networked Businesses

Union Square Ventures (USV)

Check: USV states that the firm writes $1 million to $30 million checks from the earliest stages onward. It does not publish Brad's personal range or authority; investments are discussed by the full partnership and decided collectively without a vote.

Brad's published investing work centers on preserving the internet's permissionless, generative character. He has backed open communications and data infrastructure, decentralized protocols with incentive-aligned funding models, community fiber networks that challenge access monopolies, and data-driven media platforms entering a market transition. The common thread is reducing gatekeeper control while creating networks whose users, developers, and communities share in expanding value.