Existing investors Greylock, Benchmark, Union Square Ventures and Learn Capital also participated in the new round.
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Investors: Kleiner Perkins, Foundry Group, Avalon Ventures, Institutional Venture Partners and Union Square Ventures.
Brad Burnham of Union Square Ventures, a venture-capital firm, has argued that the answer is yes.
Also participating in the deal are existing investors Sequoia Capital, Flybridge Capital and Union Square Ventures.
New York-based Union Square Ventures is one of the most respected venture capital firms in the tech world.
GetGlue is based in New York City and backed by Union Square Ventures, RRE Ventures, TimeWarner Investments, and Rho Ventures.
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Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures is a well-known example ( link).
Union Square Ventures hired a General Manager for its portfolio in 2010.
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However, he cites venture firms Andreesen Horowitz and Union Square Ventures as models, because they invest opportunistically in a broad range of stages.
Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures has publicly warned about the torrent of money crowdfunding might unleash, a torrent that could elbow out venture capitalists.
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The company is introducing 15 new Hybrid classes this morning, with offerings from Union Square Ventures partner Fred Wilson and former executives from Zappos and Airbnb.
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Union Square Ventures, a New York venture-capitalist firm that invests heavily in tech start-ups, hired two analysts last month after a search that started last fall.
The decision of prominent venture capital firm Union Square Ventures to invest in DuckDuckGo shows investor confidence in the opportunities for innovation and growth in the search space.
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The deal is a big win for Mr. Karp, who remains a large shareholder, and the site's early venture investors, which include Union Square Ventures, Spark Capital and Sequoia Capital.
Earlier that day, he had been approved for an American tourist visa, which had been fast-tracked by a letter from Fred Wilson, who runs Union Square Ventures, one of the largest venture-capital firms in New York.
It was reported last year that U.S. venture capital firm Union Square Ventures and a handful of American tech companies were to only accept links to jobseekers' "web presence" -- from blogs to Twitter accounts -- instead of traditional resumes.
Pincus was ultimately forced to look beyond Sand Hill Road for cash at Boulder-based Foundry Group, New York-based Union Square Ventures and Avalon Ventures, a firm not well-known outside of biotech circles or its San Diego headquarters.
It was funded last Thanksgiving by VC firms Union Square Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz , along with more than thirty other local luminaries, including Ron Conway, Jeff Clavier, eBay and LiveOps executive Maynard Webb, and Digg founder Kevin Rose.
Today, Fred Wilson, now heading Union Square Ventures, is one of the financial backers of Tumblr, a company he invested in early, seeing it grow to become one of the top 25 sites on the internet and one of the fastest-growing ones on mobile devices.
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