Wenger is a managing partner at Union Square Ventures, a New York City-based venture capital firm with investments in companies such as Twilio, Etsy, Firebase, Behance, and MongoDB.

[1] Wenger won the German high school computer science competition[2] when he was 18.

[3] Wenger earned his PhD in Information Technology from the MIT in 1999 under the supervision of Erik Brynjolfsson and Bengt Holmström.

[6] He led USV's investment in Etsy, where he was also a personal angel investor.

[10] Wenger also co-founded DailyLit,[11] The Spark of Hudson,[12] and HudsonUP,[13] and is an investor in Ziggeo.