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Brad Burnham is a managing partner at Union Square Ventures. He started working in information technology with AT&T in 1979. Brad spun Echo Logic out of Bell Laboratories in 1989 and joined AT&T Ventures in 1993. Brad co-founded TACODA in 2001 before joining Fred to create Union Square Ventures in 2003. Brad majored in political science at Wesleyan University. He is married with two kids and lives in New York City.
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Brittany Laughlin
Brittany Laughlin is President of the Stacks Foundation and founding partner of Lattice Ventures. In the past, she was a general manager at Union Square Ventures and has also worked at 3x Entrepreneur, among others.
Jennifer Campbell
Jennifer Campbell is a partner at Founders Fund and was previously the co-founder and CEO of Tagomi. She graduated from Harvard University.
Andy Weissman
Andy Weissman is a managing partner at Union Square Ventures. Andy began his career in the Internet in the mid-90s. Prior to joining USV, in 2007 he co-founded betaworks, which both created and invested in social, real-time applications and services. Andy was born in New York City and has a BA from Wesleyan University and a JD from Georgetown.
Shelly Gogol
Shelly Gogol is the General Manager at Placeholder. He runs the firm's operations.
Joel Monegro
Joel Monegro is the Managing Partner at Placeholder. Before that,he spent three years as an analyst at Union Square Ventures developing the firm's blockchain investment thesis and portfolio.
Mario Laul
Mario Laul is the Head of research for Placeholder VC. He joined the team in late 2017, initially in a part-time role. In addition to supporting investment due diligence, his research efforts are focused on the topic of crypto network governance.
David Gabeau
David Gabeau is the founder of Primitives and previously was an analyst at Union Square Ventures. He is a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy.
Fred Wilson
Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He is currently a partner at Union Square Ventures and founder of Flatiron Partners. Fred holds a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Nick Grossman
Nick Grossman is a partner at Union Square Ventures. His current focus is cryptonetworks / cryptoassets / blockchains, working across the USV portfolio and looking at new investment opportunities. He also works on trust & safety, security, data/privacy, legal, regulatory and policy issues. Previously, he led an incubator for startups at the intersection of cities and data at OpenPlans, with a focus on cultivating open source communities, building open data platforms, and supporting open standards efforts. Nick has a degree in Urban Studies from Stanford University, has held academic affiliations at the MIT Media Lab and Harvard Law School, and learned everything he knows about technology from generous people on the internet and by using view:source. He grew up in Brooklyn and now lives outside of Boston with his wife and two children.
Christopher Burniske
Chris Burniske is the Partner of Placeholder VC, co-author of Cryptoassets, formerly led crypto ARKinvest.