Danny Wen

Head of BD @ Wing VC | YC S13 alum

📍 United States, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 25 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Dec 2025
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Seed Investor
Dec 2025
Ploy turns your website into your hardest-working employee — an AI growth teammate that builds, optimizes, and publishes high-converting marketing sites.
Seed Investor
Aug 2025
Dyna Robotics is at the forefront of revolutionizing robotic manipulation with cutting-edge foundation models. Our mission is to empower businesses by automating repetitive, stationary tasks with affordable, intelligent robotic arms. Leveraging the latest advancements in foundation models, were driving the future of general-purpose robotics—one manipulation skill at a time.
Seed Investor
Mar 2025
AfterHour is the ultimate financial community platform for the internet generation. Our mission is to help people make better financial decisions together. Founded in 2022, we have raised $4.5 million in seed funding led by Founders Fund and General Catalyst, to become the new face of finance.
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Oct 2022
Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and over 60% of the Fortune 500 — rely on Databricks to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified Data Intelligence Platform that includes Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, Lakebase and Unity Catalog. --- Databricks applicants Please apply through our official Careers page at databricks.com/company/careers. All official communication from Databricks will come from email addresses ending with @databricks.com or @goodtime.io (our meeting tool).
Seed Investor
May 2022
Connected vehicles are transforming fleet operations across industries, led by the electric revolution. EVs were the first truly software-defined vehicles, and businesses are rapidly adopting them but lack the software infrastructure to unlock their true value. Our mission is to build the fleet management platform for the electric vehicle era - becoming the default software layer that empowers fleet operators to maximize efficiency and profitability. Our team is backed by top Silicon Valley investors and was founded by the CEO of Embark, a transportation start-up acquired by Apple. We’re a group of ex-Apple, Stripe, Yelp, Robinhood, and Tesla engineers, designers, and business professionals who want to have a meaningful impact on the world. If you’re curious, say hello!
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Apr 2022
At Alt, we’re on a mission to unlock the value of alternative assets, and looking for talented people who share our vision. Our platform enables users to sell, buy, value, and securely store their collectible cards. And we envision a world where anything is an investable asset. Passionate about trading cards? Search our open roles!
Seed Investor
Mar 2022
Turnstile is the all-in-one revenue automation platform that streamlines your entire revenue lifecycle—from quoting and subscription management to billing and revenue recognition. Designed for growing businesses, from startups to enterprises, Turnstile simplifies complex quote-to-cash workflows, combining flexibility and structure to meet unique pricing and operational needs without compromising efficiency. Our platform empowers sales, finance, and operational teams to work seamlessly while adapting to evolving pricing strategies. With exceptional support and a true partnership approach, Turnstile helps ambitious companies scale efficiently and focus on what matters most: growth.
Seed Investor
Jan 2022
Everything our civilization depends on is either mined, dug, or grown. AIM transforms heavy machines into AI-powered fleets that turbocharge earthmoving. AIM’s platform has been running autonomous mines, construction sites, and building infrastructure around the world. Powered by physical AI, the AIM solution transforms bulldozers, loaders, excavators into autonomous fleets. From resource extraction to critical infrastructure, the global economy is reliant on the efficient movement of earth. Safe autonomous earthmoving is the linchpin of our civilization. AIM runs large-scale earthworks and defense operations as a TRL9 hardened system, not a science experiment. Built by engineers with deep expertise in mining, construction and AI tech, AIM enables scalable earthmoving, turbocharging the global economy’s physical foundation. AIM is backed by some of the most sophisticated capital in the world, including General Catalyst, Khosla Ventures, Elad Gil, Human Capital, Ironspring Ventures, Mantis, DCVC.
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Nov 2021
Jasper is the purpose-built generative AI platform for marketing. Built on a foundation of enterprise trust, Jasper deeply understands marketing, delivering advanced brand control and an intuitive AI toolkit that allow marketers to build apps and workflows to accelerate their success. Looking to connect with our team? Shoot us a DM 👋
Seed Investor
Oct 2021
The first fully branded universal order center – a one-stop 360 customer experience enabling instant resolution of any order issue, all in one place.
early stageRetail
Seed Investor
Oct 2021
Cavalry provides the first vertically integrated AI Agent + Agent Resolution OS platform that scales alongside e-commerce customer service teams. We help by prioritizing human time when it matters most, aligning seamlessly with your brand voice, and providing robust resolution management controls. Our unique capabilities: - Enable human supervision of all AI responses and actions for 100% brand-safe AI deployment - Prevent AI hallucinations with strict software controls, not LLM prompting - Go beyond simple actions by supporting custom eligibilities and fully automated complex operational workflows - Seamless resolution handling from tracking issues, delivery assistance and returns to order adjustments, courtesy credits, product recommendations and upsells Leading brands like Touch of Modern, P.J. Salvage, Dolls Kill, and Good Light value Shipped AI for increasing agent productivity by 233% while accelerating average resolution time and reducing overall customer service costs.
Investor
Aug 2021
GOAT Group represents the leading platforms for authentic sneakers, apparel and accessories. Operating four distinct brands–GOAT, Flight Club, Grailed and alias–GOAT Group has a global community of over 50M members across 170 countries. Note: Please be aware of recent fraudulent messages claiming to offer employment at GOAT. If you have not gone through a recent application and interview process directly with GOAT Group (GOAT or Flight Club), there is a high likelihood the offer letter you are receiving is a fraudulent one. Please disregard and apply through goat.com/careers if you are interested in applying to a role at GOAT Group.
Seed Investor
Aug 2021
Dr. Treat is a pet health & wellness startup headquartered in San Francisco and as the name suggests, a happy place to work. Our mission is to help pets live their healthiest, happiest, and longest lives by using technology and data in a way that’s never been done before. By using technology and data in a way that’s never been done before, we are building the best-in-class veterinary clinics by rethinking processes, workflows, and services that will make the lives of companions, providers, and care providers better.
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Sep 2020
Patreon is the best place for creators to build community with their biggest fans, share exclusive work, and turn their passions into lasting creative businesses. Hundreds of thousands of video creators, podcasters, musicians, writers, game developers, and more are achieving creative and financial freedom doing what they love on Patreon, powered directly by fans who love what they do. Our endgame? A future where creators are in control, and real community thrives.
Seed Investor
Jun 2020
Datajoy provides a Revenue Intelligence solution that unifies an organization’s customer data and gives ML-augmented insights to systematically optimize customer acquisition and retention activities. We provide the power of a leading-edge data science practice dedicated to its go-to-market efforts, without the associated cost and effort. Founded by a serial SaaS entrepreneur, the head of product for Augmented Analytics at Tableau, and the Chief Architect of Natural Language Search at SAP Analytics Cloud, Datajoy answers the top of mind questions that every revenue leader has right now while delivering the data platform that winning organizations will need for the future. Acquired by Databricks in October 2022
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2026
Head of Business Development
May 2026
Founded in 2013, Wing Venture Capital is a venture capital firm devoted to early-stage, long-term company building in the AI-first technology stack. The body of work of Wings award-winning team spans more than two decades and dozens of successful early-stage companies, 21 of which went on to achieve billion-dollar-plus outcomes following IPOs or acquisitions. Its portfolio companies include Cohesity, AirOps, Gong, Instart Logic, Juvo, Moogsoft, Palerra, Shape Security, and Snowflake.
2025
Seed Investor
Dec 2025
Ploy turns your website into your hardest-working employee — an AI growth teammate that builds, optimizes, and publishes high-converting marketing sites.
Seed Investor
Aug 2025
Dyna Robotics is at the forefront of revolutionizing robotic manipulation with cutting-edge foundation models. Our mission is to empower businesses by automating repetitive, stationary tasks with affordable, intelligent robotic arms. Leveraging the latest advancements in foundation models, were driving the future of general-purpose robotics—one manipulation skill at a time.
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Jun 2025
Locate is the first tech-enabled brokerage in the retail industry. We combine unparalleled artificial intelligence with broker expertise to provide you the most accurate site selection. When we started Locate in 2014, we had a vision of making every retail real estate decision as accurate as possible through the power of data and artificial intelligence. We achieved that mission and have now grown and transitioned from a software tech partner to a full-service real estate firm. Locate links the art & science of retail site selection into one coherent offering — one that integrates unparalleled analytics with real estate expertise from world-class brokers. Retailers have a one-stop-shop for both data and brokerage, and we offer industry-leading mobile data and artificial intelligence at no cost to the retailers. Clients like Parachute, Allbirds, Barry’s Bootcamp, Massage Luxe, and Sprint trust Locate to grow their retail businesses.
Seed Investor
Mar 2025
AfterHour is the ultimate financial community platform for the internet generation. Our mission is to help people make better financial decisions together. Founded in 2022, we have raised $4.5 million in seed funding led by Founders Fund and General Catalyst, to become the new face of finance.
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