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Wendy Lu

Building | Former Director of Eng at Pinterest, Airtable

San Francisco, California

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $2,000,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $20,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $10,000,000.00

Work Experience

  • Building

    2025

2020 - 2025

  • Investor and startup helper

    2020 - 2025

    VC investor at Emergence Capital ('24-'25) and angel investor/startup helper to amazing founders Select investments: - Loom - acq. by Atlassian ($TEAM) - Seek AI - acq. by IBM ($IBM) - DeepSky - acq. by Airtable - Archive Resale - Series B by Lightspeed, BCV - Traversal - Series A by Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia - Chalk AI - Series A by Felicis - Salient - Series A by a16z - Interviewing.io - Series A by M13 - Boldvoice (boldvoice.com)

2020 - 2024

  • Director of Engineering - AI

    2020 - 2024

    I led our growth, monetization, platform, and AI teams - collaborating with many talented teammates and partnering with companies like West Elm, Walmart, Apple, and Hilton to build AI-powered apps that drive outcomes.

2013 - 2020

  • Director of Engineering

    2016 - 2020

    Led teams responsible for all new product launches for advertisers and merchants. Grew revenue in these products from 0->$1B by the time of IPO. Recruited and developed various skillsets including ML, ranking, product engineering, ingestion & retrieval, data pipelines.

  • Engineer

    2013 - 2016

    Early engineer, led and contributed to various launches including the mobile app and shopping on Pinterest

  • Engineering Intern

    2012 - 2012

2001 - 2011

  • Athlete, U.S. Artistic Swimming National Team

    2001 - 2011

    Represented the United States at the Junior World Championships in St. Petersburg, Russia US Gold Medalist 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011 Stanford Varsity and Academic All-American

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