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Union Square Ventures is an early stage venture capital fund located in New York City. We focus on IT-enabled services in the media & marketing, financial services, healthcare and telecom verticals. We look to back passionate, experienced entrepreneurs who are focused on creating highly scalable services and significant value propositions for their end users.
Hear Fred Wilson on Businessweek's Blogspotting podcast. from spring 2006. Also, listen to Fred and Brad's most recent Businessweek podcast in fall 2006.

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Zynga Announces New Investment from Kleiner Perkins and IVP

Our portfolo company Zynga closed a $29mm round of financing last week which was led by Kleiner Perkins and IVP. We participated in the round, as did other investors Foundry Group and Avalon Ventures. Bing Gordon, co-founder of Electronic Arts and a games industry veteran, is now a partner at Kleiner Perkins and he will join Zynga's Board.

The Wall Street Journal and TechCrunch both wrote about the financing.

July 23, 2008 1:55 AM, By Fred Wilson

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