Albert Wenger

Managing Partner at Union Square Ventures

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Biography

Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures according to the firm's own site, where the batch title of Managing Partner is not used. Before joining USV he was president of del.icio.us through the company's sale to Yahoo and an angel investor in Etsy and Tumblr. He is the author of the book The World After Capital and writes about technology, science and philosophy on his blog Continuations. He graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT.

Education

Previous Experience

Notable Investments

Twilio TWLOgoTennaSimScaleEtsy ETSYTumblr

Career Timeline

2010
Announced on the USV blog that the firm had led Twilio's Series A, which closed in December 2009.
2015
Announced USV's investment in Munich-based SimScale.
2017
Announced that USV was leading the Series B round for goTenna.

Sources & References

Union Square Ventures - Albert Wenger ↗Union Square Ventures - People ↗Union Square Ventures - Companies ↗USV - Twilio (post by Albert Wenger) ↗USV - goTenna (post by Albert Wenger) ↗USV - SimScale (post by Albert Wenger) ↗MongoDB - Board of Directors ↗