Wyatt Lonergan
Reloading… ⏳
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
General Partner, VanEck Ventures
2024 - Current
VanEck Ventures is a $30 million early stage venture capital fund that invests in category winning founders building middleware and applications leveraging open source banking primitives and artificial intelligence to redesign our financial system. https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/vaneck-launches-30-million-ventures-fund-for-crypto-ai
Head of Circle Ventures
2021 - 2024
Launched and led Circle Ventures, a portfolio of 100 companies building on USDC and Circle's developer platform. Read more here: www.circle.com/en/circle-ventures
Business & Corporate Development
2019 - 2021
Move $100k+ of crypto with our principal OTC desk.
Venture & Business Development
2018 - 2019
Broker-Dealer and investment platform acquired by Circle in March 2019.
Black Capital provides access to the venture capital ecosystem to promote economic inclusion.
Co-Founder
2014 - 2017
DTC Bicycle Brand. We sold over 10,000 bikes while simultaneously establishing a network of over 100 independent bike shops as Tribe dealer stores.
Product Development & Ecommerce
2011 - 2014
Lived in China for 3 years and learned how to take a product from an idea to a finished, landed product. I started on the product development team, eventually managing a group of 10 people, and then launched M&D's first e-commerce store in China while also managing our marketing team. I left M&D in August of 2014 to launch my own company.
Audit Department
2009 - 2009
Deloitte Tax is an advisory firm that provides tax preparation and advisory services.
Education
BA
2007 - 2011