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Andrea Wang

Seed/Early Investor at General Catalyst | Formerly operator at Amplitude and Lime

San Francisco, California

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $500,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $2,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,000,000.00

Education

Work Experience

  • Partner

    2023

    Partner to early-stage (pre-seed, seed, series A) startups. Would love to hear from you: andrea@generalcatalyst.com Currently working closely with: Pylon - modern customer support software Stealth executive coaching AI company Stealth accounting AI company Stealth productivity AI company General Catalyst is a venture capital firm that invests in powerful, positive change that endures. We are very fortunate to have invested in companies like Airbnb, Canva, Chief, ClassPass, Color Genomics, Datalogix, Datto, Deliveroo, Demandware, Discord, Fivetran, Fundbox, Gitlab, Grammarly, Guild Education, Gusto, Hubspot, Illumio, Kayak, Lemonade, Menlo Security, Multiverse, Oscar, Ramp, Rapyd, Samsara, Sondermind, Stripe, The Honest Company, ThoughtSpot and Warby Parker.

2023

  • Investor and Board Observer

    2023

    https://usepylon.com/ Modern customer support platform

2020 - 2023

  • Principal Product Manager, Growth

    2020 - 2023

    NYSE: $AMPL. Growth Product Lead, building and scaling a best-in-class product growth team from the ground up. Growth team's charter is to build sustainable, predictable, and competitively defensible distribution strategy for Amplitude. My teams drive onboarding and activation, in-product monetization, and product-led sales pipeline development. Growth Product Manager (2020)-> Senior Product Manager (2021)-> Principal Product Manager (2022) Amplitude is a leading product analytics platform helping companies build better products and grow their business. We are backed by leading VCs including Sequoia, Benchmark, GIC, Battery Ventures and IVP.

Startups

2021 - 2023

  • Angel Investor

    2021 - 2023

    I invest in pre-seed and seed consumer and enterprise startups and help founders with product, growth strategy, and more. I love to partner with product-minded founders who are learning animals and have category-creating vision and ambition since day 0. Co-invested with General Catalyst, Sequoia, First Round, Coatue, Lightspeed, Bessemer, and Spark Capital. Fortunate to be partnering with 18 future unicorns such as Pocus, Rupa Health, Workwise, Polar, Parafin, Useful, Truefoundry, Faves and many more unannounced.

2018 - 2020

  • Experiments Lead

    2019 - 2020

    Post Series D, I built internal tools and used experimentation to improve unit economics on Global Business Operations team. Improved supply demand matching and significantly reduced juicer charging costs in global markets.

  • Product Manager

    2018 - 2019

    Post Series C, I was on Core Rider Experience product team, working on international payments, internationalization, first trip activation, and rider fraud. Helped Lime rapidly expand to 100+ markets (the very first markets in LATAM, APAC, Europe, and Middle East) by localizing 3 apps (rider, juicer, ops) into 30+ languages and building features to help Lime grow and capture market share in high priority markets.

2018 - 2018

  • Management Consultant

    2018 - 2018

    Product innovation strategy for Fortune 500 consumer(prestige cosmetics) and financial services clients

2017 - 2018

  • Strategy, Email Marketing, and Government Relations

    2017 - 2018

    Joined pre-launch and wore 3 hats during Series A and B during my masters program at Stanford: • Helped Lime secure operating contracts with the first city governments in the U.S. • Worked closely with founders on fundraising efforts during Series B and extension rounds ($120M in total funding) • Managed rider email marketing campaigns

  • Lecturer

    2013 - 2017

    Lectured in 3-unit Engineering class, ENGR 103 "Public Speaking" open to undergrads, grad students, MBAs; led weekly sections with average class size ~50-100 per quarter and one-on-one tutorials