Fred Wilson is a venture capitalist who co-founded Union Square Ventures and works at the firm as Managing Partner. He previously worked at Euclid Partners as General Partner, and co-founded Flatiron Partners with Jerry Colonna in 1996, a firm that shut down in 2001 following the dot-com bust. Fred Wilson's Twitter Score is 669 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, ranking #137 (top 0.1%) out of 389,587 accounts tracked, with 641,111 followers as of July 2026 and 19,910 posts since 2007.
Fred Wilson has published a daily blog, AVC: Musings of a VC in NYC at avc.com, since 2003, covering venture capital, entrepreneurship, and crypto and Web3 topics, and also posts to Mirror, a Web3 on-chain blogging platform. Union Square Ventures was an early investor in Coinbase in 2013, a position that contributed to the exchange's 2021 direct listing, and the firm has invested in over 25 web3 projects including Uniswap, Polygon, and Helium, with a blockchain portfolio spanning Algorand, Dapper Labs, and Protocol Labs. He has publicly stated his conviction on crypto despite regulatory pressure, writing to USV's limited partners: "When they want to shut it down, I say double down."
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