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Albert Wenger | |
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Nationality | German and American |
Education | Harvard University ( BA) and MIT ( PhD) |
Occupation | Managing partner at Union Square Ventures |
Known for | Venture capital |
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]
Wenger won the German high school 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]
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] The Spark of Hudson, [12] and HudsonUP, [13] and is an investor in Ziggeo. [14]
Wenger and his wife Susan Danziger have three children together. Their youngest son works as a fashion designer in New York. [15]