Fred Wilson (born August 20, 1961) is an American businessman, venture capitalist and blogger.

[citation needed] Based in New York City, it grew into an investment fund that focused primarily on follow-on investing, with investments in notable dot-com bubble successes and failures, including Alacra, comScore Networks, Yoyodyne, Geocities, Kozmo.com, The New York Times Digital, PlanetOut, Return Path, Scout electromedia, Standard Media International, Starmedia, Favemail, and VitaminShoppe.com.

TheFunded.com, a social networking site for technology entrepreneurs, rated him their favorite venture capitalist in 2007.

[7] Wilson publishes one post per day, usually on a topic related to venture capital entrepreneurship or the Internet.

Wilson has a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.