Albert Wenger

Albert Wenger is a German-American businessman and venture capitalist. Wenger is a managing partner at Union Square Ventures, a New York City-based venture capital firm with investments in companies such as Twilio, Etsy, Firebase, Behance, and MongoDB.[1]

Albert Wenger
NationalityGerman and American
EducationHarvard University (BA) and MIT (PhD)
OccupationManaging partner at Union Square Ventures
Known forVenture capital

Early life and education

Wenger won the German highschool computer science competition [2] when he was 18.[3] Wenger earned his PhD in Information Technology from the MIT in 1999 under the supervision of Erik Brynjolfsson and Bengt Holmström.[4]

Career

Albert Wenger joined Union Square Ventures as a venture partner in 2006[5] following the sale of Delicious to Yahoo in 2005 where he had been the president.[6] He led USV's investment in Etsy, where he was also a personal angel investor.[7] He became a General Partner in 2008[8] and a Managing Partner in 2017.[9] Notable investments include Series A rounds in Etsy (IPO 2015), Twilio (IPO 2016), MongoDB (IPO 2017) as well as Behance (acquired by Adobe) and Firebase (acquired by Google).[10]

Wenger also co-founded DailyLit[11] and is an investor in Ziggeo.[12]

Academic Board and Advisory Positions

University of the People (Member of Computer Science Advisory Board) [13]

Personal life

Wenger and his wife Susan Danziger have several children together. Their son works as a fashion designer in New York.[14]

gollark: <@331320482047721472> What if webassembly?
gollark: rustup can install as a normal user, right?
gollark: Not if I embed contrarustcous code in the test suite.
gollark: Rust is allowed, but your program MUST be a pangram.
gollark: But then everyone would steal the osmarkslisp™ one.

References
  1. "Albert Wenger Union Square Ventures". Retrieved 2018-03-27.
  2. "Bundeswettbewerb Informatik".
  3. "Dr. Albert Wenger". University of the People.
  4. "Three essays on the influence of information technology on the organization of firms". Retrieved 2018-03-27.
  5. "Introducing Albert Wenger". Retrieved 2018-03-27.
  6. "A New York VC Spotlight: Albert Wenger". Retrieved 2018-03-27.
  7. "Albert Wenger - Angellist". Retrieved 2018-03-27.
  8. "AVC My Partners". Retrieved 2018-03-27.
  9. "AVC Succession Planning In Partnerships". Retrieved 2018-03-27.
  10. "USV Portfolio". Retrieved 2018-03-27.
  11. "Techcrunch - Plympton Acquires DailyLit". Retrieved 2018-03-27.
  12. "About Albert Wenger". Retrieved 2018-03-27.
  13. https://www.uopeople.edu/programs/ba/leadership/business-administration-advisory-board/dr-albert-wenger/
  14. "'Chopped' Contestant Now Designing Clothes. He's 16". The New York Times. 2018.
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