Continuations

Today’s post is over at USV, where we announced our investment in Behance.

After yesterday’s Twilio announcement, this will make two funding posts in a row but that’s just how it worked out: Edmodo today announced that the company has raised $15 million in a round led by Greylock and Benchmark. Reid Hoffman and Matt Cohler will be joining the Edmodo board. We are super excited about how this allows Edmodo to continue growing and deliver on their vision of connecting and empowering students and teachers. Congrats to the team at Edmodo!

Twilio has been growing rapidly in the US and they recently launched in the UK for voice with text coming soon. In addition to geographic expansion, Twilio has also been adding awesome new services such as Twilio Client and Twilio Connect. We are excited to be supporting Team Twilio together with the fine folks from Bessemer with a $17 million Series C financing. Congrats to the entire team on a fantastic year!

Today’s post is over at the USV blog, announcing our investment in Wattpad. Wattpad is an amazing community for sharing and reading stories. Go read the blog post or watch their video.

Blog post today is over at the USV blog where I talk about jig, the service launched by the TastyLabs team. It is a way of formalizing the #lazyweb and getting help from friends, followers and strangers. I have a couple of needs posted there, so if you have suggestions please post them there!

Excited to announce our investment in Skillshare today. You can read some other posts about it here: Michael and Malcolm from Skillshare, Fred, and Jenna Wortham in the New York Times.

I am really looking forward to today. We have the founders and/or CEOs of our portfolio companies in town for our annual portfolio company summit. We consider it a privilege to be able to convene such an awesome group of folks. We always come away having learned a ton of things. Here are some of the topics that we are planning to cover today: Living in a multi-device world. With iPhones selling like hotcakes, Android beginning to take off, various tablets in the offing, etc. companies will ha...

Excited to be announcing our investment in Shapeways and the relocation of the company’s headquarters to NY. You can read more about it on the Shapeways blog and over at the NY Times. The founders Peter, Marleen and Robert are relocating from the Netherlands – welcome to NY!

We just announced on the Union Square Ventures blog that we are hiring for two positions: an Analyst and a General Manager of the USV Network.