Wendy Lu
Principal at Emergence Capital
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Founder
2025 - Current
Director of Engineering - AI
2020 - 2024
AI, New Products, Dev Platform, and Self-Serve
Airtable is a cloud-based software company that offers an online platform for creating and sharing relational databases.
Raised $1,352,600,000.00 from Salesforce Ventures, Silver Lake, D1 Capital Partners, Franklin Templeton, T. Rowe Price, Friends & Family Capital, XN, Caffeinated Capital, Benchmark and ICONIQ Growth.
Investor and Advisor
2020 - 2024
Select investments: - Loom (loom.com) - Salient (trysalient.com) - Gradient (gradient.ai) - Archive Resale (archiveresale.com) - Seek AI (seek.ai) - Chalk AI (chalk.ai) - Boldvoice (boldvoice.com) - Mosaic (mosaic.us) - Italic (italic.com) - Interviewing.io
Director of Engineering
2016 - 2020
Engineer
2013 - 2016
Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool for saving and discovering creative ideas.
Raised $1,486,100,000.00 from Elliott Investment Management and Elliott Investment Management.
Engineer
2012 - 2012
Athlete, U.S. Artistic Swimming National Team
2001 - 2011
Represented the United States at the Junior World Championships in St. Petersburg, Russia US Gold Medalist 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011 Stanford Varsity and Academic All-American