cd /news/ai-agents/usv-analyst-2-0 · home topics ai-agents article
[ARTICLE · art-38395] src=avc.xyz ↗ pub= topic=ai-agents verified=true sentiment=· neutral

USV Analyst 2.0

Union Square Ventures (USV) is hiring two human analysts after a year-long experiment with AI agents proved insufficient for fully replacing human judgment in venture capital. The firm found that while AI agents were effective, they could not replicate human abilities such as network immersion, judgment of people, and organizing communities. USV emphasizes that humans remain superior for these interpersonal and evaluative tasks.

read1 min views2 publishedJun 3, 2026
USV Analyst 2.0
Image: Avc (auto-discovered)

A year ago, USV decided to explore what an AI native VC firm would look like. We hired Spencer who built a platform and a bunch of agents and wrote this post about all of that before departing to do a startup. And we d our longstanding analyst program last year and saw how far we could get with agent analysts instead of humans analysts.

That experiment was incredibly successful and we got a very long way without human analysts but in the end we concluded we could not get all the way without them. So we announced last week that we are recruiting for two new analysts.

That led our friend and fellow VC Yoni Rechtman to ask on Twitter, "What, the agents aren't good enough???"

To which our partner Rebecca answered:

Of course, this was all pretty predictable. Humans are going to be better at being human for the foreseeable future.

So if you are interested in a career in VC and your superpowers include these things:

-be immersed in networks of early day founders interested in our thesis areas

-be someone those founders want to share ideas with

-have great judgement of people and have interesting and compelling points of view

-be human with other humans and an organizer of great people together

Then you would be a great candidate for our new analyst program that will emphasize these things.

If you want to apply, you can do so here.

── more in #ai-agents 4 stories · sorted by recency
── more on @union square ventures 3 stories trending now
sponsored brought to you by zahid.host 4,200+ EU-deployed projects
reading about agents? ship yours in a single git push.

Run your AI side-project on zahid.host

EU-based hosting, git-push deploys, automatic HTTPS, no cold starts. Free tier with a custom domain — perfect for shipping the agent you just read about.

$git push zahid main
Live at https://your-agent.zahid.host
Get free account → Pricing
from €0/mo · no card required
LIVE [news/usv-analyst-2-0] indexed:0 read:1min 2026-06-03 ·