Wendy is a Principal at Northzone, based in New York, and focuses mainly on companies in the consumer, health, fintech, developer and web 3 infrastructure spaces. Her portfolio includes Spring Health, Livepeer, 3Box, and OpenZeppelin.
Prior to Northzone, Wendy founded co-working and childcare company CoHatchery, and consulted for retail/transportation companies at A. T. Kearney and Accenture.
Wendy holds a BA in Economics, a BBA from University of Michigan and an MBA from Columbia Business School, where she serves as an advisor to the entrepreneurship program.
And proud of it. I have an economics background and an interest in Web 3 infrastructure and cryptoeconomic design. I believe crypto protocols can help grow the web by allowing more people to transact in more ways and more frequently online, in new markets we haven’t even begun to explore. I blog fairly regularly on Medium and also authored Northzone’s crypto Investment thesis.
This encompasses everything that makes my day-to-day enjoyable. I'm talking about emotions we feel as consumers, entrepreneurial personalities, viral ephemeral memes and user product journeys. I’m fascinated by people and the many different ways they experience the world.
It's what gives those interesting human experiences (and technology in general) meaning — addressing society's biggest problems in a scalable way — problems like health, data privacy and education.
Chefs, rappers, dancers, master climbers and fishermen — it's amazing to observe someone endlessly pursuing perfection, while also defining perfection. It's the most human thing in the world.
I live in New York with my husband and two sons, and we love to spend time in nature whenever we can.