AlleyCorp's Wendy Tsu shares her insights on the process of developing a good business idea and why your team matters as much as your idea.
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Wendy Tsu
Partner of New Business Ventures, AlleyCorp
Wendy Tsu is the Partner of New Business Ventures for AlleyCorp, a seed-stage investment firm and incubator founded by DoubleClick CEO, Kevin Ryan. AlleyCorp founded companies like Business Insider, MongoDB (NASDAQ: MDB), Gilt Groupe, Zola, Nomad Health, CoEdition.
Wendy serves as a Generalist Partner where she focuses her time on AlleyCorp’s early-stage investments and incubation methodologies for new ventures. Joining the firm in 2017, she worked closely on the concept development and launch of CoEdition and Truebird while leading investing efforts in over a third of AlleyCorp’s portfolio. She worked previously at PayPal, Deloitte Consulting, KIPP Charter Schools, and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
Wendy graduated with an MBA from Stanford Business School now serving as the GSB NY Chapter Co-Chair, and with honors in Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley.
Portfolio Focuses
NewCos, Truebird, Coedition, Great Jones, Buffy, Arfa, Atlas Obscura, Ten to One, Mosaic, Nara Organics, Ripplematch, Wonde
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