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Nancy Wang

Venture Partner at Felicis

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Nancy Wang is a Venture Partner at Felicis in Seattle, Washington, specializing in investing in early-stage cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, and marketplace companies. She has successfully invested in companies like Dig Security, Open Raven, and RAPIDFORT, demonstrating a strong track record in identifying and supporting promising startups in these sectors.

Work Experience 

  • Partner

    2024 - Current

    Partnering with early-stage founders at the intersection of data infra, cloud infra, and security. Leveraging my operator background to help them scale. Have helped source and co-led investments in: Dig Security, Armada.ai, Observo.ai, Mercor, [To be announced AI data company], and [To be announced AI data infra company].

Felicis invests in seed through Series C stage companies across multiple sectors, industries, and frontier tech.

  • Product Advisor

    2025

    Advising the Mercor team on the AI Interview product. Check out the world's first fully-autonomous AI Interviewer: https://mercor.com/interviews/

Mercor is an AI-based hiring platform designed to improves the recruitment process for both job seekers and companies.

Raised $33,600,000.00 from Chris Re, Adam D’Angelo, General Catalyst, Jack Dorsey, Larry Summers, Benchmark and Peter Thiel.

  • Director of Product & Engineering / GM, AWS Data Protection

    2019 - 2024

    Built AWS Data Protection from the ground up as the founding PM, later scaling to GM. Led product strategy, engineering, and GTM: growing the business to 130K+ enterprise customers, 1.5EB+ data protected, and $1B+ ARR. In the process, I built a multi-disciplinary high-performing team of several hundred engineers, PMs, product designers, and TPMs across 4 offices in the US, Canada, and the U.K.

Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.

  • Head of Cloud SaaS Products

    2017 - 2019

    Joined as a founding PM (3rd PM) and grew with the team to over 15+ PMs. Company grew from 650 to over 1,400 during tenure. Led inception and development of App Flows, the first SaaS product line, as well as our physical Windows and NAS (network attached storage) product offerings. Drove product positioning, outbound Go-to-Market (GTM), and pricing/packaging conversations.

Rubrik offers live data access for recovery and application development by fusing enterprise data management with web-scale IT.

Raised $554,300,000.00 from Spellman Investment Group, SharesPro, Raison, Red Lions Capital, MS&AD Ventures and Irving Investors.

  • Product Manager - Network Monitoring Platform

    2014 - 2016

    Led the product development and strategy for the network infrastructure team (infrastructure-as-a-service) at Google Fiber. Oversaw OSS/BSS product management within Google Access and Energy. Managed team of ISP (Inside Plant) engineers to deploy Small-Medium Business (SMBs) network in cities (Austin, Salt Lake City, Kansas City, Atlanta and Nashville) across the country. Launched the first Google Fiber Academy for training engineers and technicians for Google Fiber deployments.

Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.

Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.

  • Technical Architect & Data Systems Integration Lead (Federal & Intelligence Community)

    2012 - 2014

    Led Palantir deployments on behalf of Deloitte for federal and intelligence community clients, architecting, building, and deploying data systems, visualization, and dashboards required to meet client mission. I held and this role required a Secret Clearance. Advised federal and intelligence community clients on creating and delivering appropriate technology roadmaps and system integrations against their agency objectives.

Deloitte Tax is an advisory firm that provides tax preparation and advisory services.

  • Systems/Management Analyst (One-Year Fellowship)

    2011 - 2012

    Architected and built HealthData.gov from within the Office of the CTO. HealthData.gov was a data initiative to democratize healthcare data and make it available to researchers, private sector, and other agencies within the federal, local, and state & local governments.

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