USV 2019

German-born technology entrepreneur and investor whose career connects early enterprise software, the failed internet-health company W3Health, a dot-com-era incubator and investment vehicle, del.icio.us, and nearly two decades at Union Square Ventures. Wenger joined USV formally as a venture partner in 2007 and as a full partner in 2008, later taking an increased leadership role across the firm's thesis-driven seed and Series A practice. His directly documented record includes personal angel investments in Etsy and Tumblr; early or board-connected USV investments in Etsy, MongoDB, Twilio, Behance, Firebase, Foursquare, education platforms, developer infrastructure, decentralized networks, climate technology, and robotics; and five founder-company ventures including DailyLit. His writing argues that digital abundance has made human attention the central scarcity and calls for economic, informational, and psychological freedom, including universal basic income, open protocols, climate action, and cautious but decentralized AI governance. He and his wife Gigi Danziger also co-founded community, agriculture, basic-income, and grantmaking initiatives in and around Hudson, New York.