# Albert Wenger

> Albert Wenger is a Series A investor at Union Square Ventures backing Software and Internet. See 108 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Union Square Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/union-square-ventures)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 108
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 35%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/albertwenger
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/albertwenger
- Website: https://x.com/albertwenger
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/albertwenger

Albert Wenger is a managing partner at Union Square Ventures. Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). He previously founded or co-founded several companies, including a management consulting firm and an early hosted data analytics company. Albert graduatedfrom Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $650k–$16M |
| Series A | $1M–$40M |
| Series B | $4.3M–$30M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 13 | 12% |
| Internet | 5 | 5% |
| Analytics | 5 | 5% |
| Manufacturing | 5 | 5% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 5% |

122 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 27 | 25% |
| Series B | 18 | 17% |
| Seed | 17 | 16% |
| Series C | 14 | 13% |
| Series D | 7 | 6% |

13 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 30 | 28% |
| Germany | 6 | 6% |
| Switzerland | 2 | 2% |
| Egypt | 1 | 1% |
| India | 1 | 1% |

13 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alqem | Alqem is a Munich-based deep tech startup utilizing physics-informed artificial intelligence to design advanced materials. The company's primary focus is accelerating the discovery of rare-earth-free permanent magnets to support sustainable engineering. Their platform bridges the gap between quantum mechanics and artificial intelligence tosimulate material properties with high precision. By eliminating reliance on scarce raw materials, the company aims to secure and clean up global supply chains for electric vehicles and wind turbines. | $9.1M | Pre-Seed | Jul 06, 2026 |  |
| Electroflow Technologies | Electroflow Technologies is a chemical manufacturing company that specializes in developing battery materials for energy abundance. | $12.8M | Seed | Sep 30, 2025 |  |
| Viam | Viam is a robotics company that aims to build products that help people's daily lives. Viam is revolutionizing software and hardware integration for a wide range of devices, including industrial robots, smart home appliances, and IoT devices, by leveraging sensing, computing, and actuation capabilities. The company was founded in 2020 by EliotHorowitz and is headquartered in New York, United States. | $30M | Series C | Mar 03, 2025 |  |
| Bolt.Earth | Revos is a smart mobility platform that provides AI-enabled IoT solutions for electric vehicles. The company provides a modular and customizable tracking and control system that integrates easily into vehicles making them smart, safe, and connected.Revos develops the largest network of edge devices and its operating stack to enable electricvehicle adoption in emerging markets. | $5M | Series A | Jan 17, 2025 |  |
| Reown | WalletConnect is an open source standard for connecting desktop Dapps to mobile Wallets using end-to-end encryption by scanning a QR code. It is a simple infrastructure that can be setup by any developer. Using a Bridge server to relay the messages without having access to any of its contents. The contents are encrypted using the session datashared by the QR code between the desktop and mobile. | $13M | Series B | Jan 14, 2025 |  |
| Phlair | Carbon Atlantis is producing energy-efficient approach for ocean-based carbon dioxide removal. | $16.2M | Seed | Sep 19, 2024 |  |
| Viam | Viam is a robotics company that aims to build products that help people's daily lives. Viam is revolutionizing software and hardware integration for a wide range of devices, including industrial robots, smart home appliances, and IoT devices, by leveraging sensing, computing, and actuation capabilities. The company was founded in 2020 by EliotHorowitz and is headquartered in New York, United States. | $45M | Series B | Mar 26, 2024 |  |
| Anthro Energy | Anthro Energy combines advanced materials with battery components to create the highest performance flexible battery. | $20M | Series A | Feb 29, 2024 |  |
| Miren | Application Deployment Software | $3M | Seed | Feb 04, 2024 |  |
| Transmutex | Transmutex develops nuclear technology designed to drastically reduce the stockpile of existing nuclear waste. It is based on technologies tested at CERN and at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI).Transmutex's team team is composed of physicists, computer scientists, and environmentalists that pioneers a new type of nuclear energy thatdelivers scalable carbon-free energy without the traditional challenges of existing nuclear plants.Transmutex was founded in 2019 by in Geneve, Switzerland. | $23.2M | Series A | Jan 29, 2024 |  |

10 of 108 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Spark Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/spark-capital) — VC Fund, 12 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Lux Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lux-capital) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Index Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/index-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Insight Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/insight-partners) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Earlybird Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/earlybird-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together

## About Union Square Ventures

VC Fund · New York, United States

Union Square Ventures is a private equity and venture capital firm focused on early-stage, growth capital, late-stage, and startup financing. The USV portfolio companies create services that have the potential to fundamentally transform important markets. It exclusively invests in the internet world, focusing on the applications layer of the web,internet services, and web services that create large networks as well as the mobile sector. Some of its invested companies are based in New York, San Francisco, London, Berlin, and places in between. It typically makes a starting investment in portfolio companies of $1 million. In certain Series Around cases, the firm may make a starting investment between $2.5 million to $3 million. It typically invests up to $20 million in any single company.Union Square Ventures was founded in 2003 and is based in New York, United States.

5 contacts available at Union Square Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Hanel Baveja | Analyst | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hanel-baveja |
| Mona Alsubaei | Analyst | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mona-alsubaei |
| Albert Wenger | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/albert-wenger |
| Andy Weissman | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andy-weissman |
| Bradford Burnham | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brad-burnham |

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## FAQ

### What does Albert Wenger invest in?

Albert Wenger invests primarily in Software, Internet and Analytics startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 108 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Albert Wenger's check size?

Albert Wenger typically joins rounds of $650k–$16M at Seed, $1M–$40M at Series A and $4.3M–$30M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Albert Wenger participates in.

### When did Albert Wenger last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Albert Wenger closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 108 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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