Wendy Tsu

Wendy serves as a Generalist Partner where she focuses her time on AlleyCorp’s early stage investments and incubation methodologies for new ventures. Joining the firm in 2017, she worked closely on the concept development and launch of CoEdition and Truebird while leading investing efforts in over a third of AlleyCorp’s portfolio. She worked previously at PayPal, Deloitte Consulting, KIPP Charter Schools, and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.

Wendy graduated with an MBA from Stanford Business School now serving as the GSB NY Chapter Co-Chair, and with honors in Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley.

NewCos, Truebird, Coedition, Great Jones, Buffy, Arfa, Atlas Obscura, Ten to One, Mosaic, Nara Organics, Ripplematch, Wonder

Brenton Fargnoli, MD

Brenton leads AlleyCorp’s healthcare investments and incubations. Prior to AlleyCorp, Brenton was an executive at Flatiron Health. He worked previously at J.P. Morgan and Blue Cross & Blue Shield. He is a practicing physician, board certified in Internal Medicine.

Brenton completed his residency at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania, earning his MD from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and an MBA in Healthcare Management from the Wharton School.

NewCos, Nomad Health, OMNY, Spring Health, Tempest

Susannah Shipton

Susannah leads Platform at AlleyCorp, working internally with AlleyCorp’s incubations and portfolio as well as externally across the entrepreneurial and investing ecosystems in NYC. She also serves C0-Chair of the VC Global Platform Community, an organization of 2000+ platform and investment network leaders.

Prior to joining AlleyCorp, Susannah led business strategy and operations at Artsy. She graduated from Princeton, where she was also captain of the varsity rowing team. 

Cameron Porter

Cameron is responsible for new company R&D, due diligence on seed investments, as well the development of internal tools/initiatives. Prior to AlleyCorp, he played professionally in Major League Soccer while simultaneously working as part of their engineering team.

Cameron studied computer science at Princeton University where he was recognized as an Academic All-American and William Winston Roper Trophy finalist for high scholastic rank and outstanding qualities of sportsmanship.

NewCos, Altana Trade, Peach Street, Smallhold

Sherman Leung

Sherman supports AlleyCorp’s incubation and investment opportunities in healthcare and enterprise software. Before AlleyCorp, Sherman was an enterprise technology investor at Underscore VC and an early product manager at PatientPing where he was named to MedTech Boston’s 40 under 40 Healthcare Innovators in 2018.

Sherman was previously a Kleiner Perkins Fellow + product manager at Mango Health and a Greylock X Fellow + early mobile engineer at Khan Academy. He holds degrees in Computer Science and Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University, where he conducted machine learning and social gamification research under Dr. Fei-Fei Li and Michael Bernstein.

Alison Hill

Alison Hill is a top-level Executive/Personal Assistant with more than twenty years experience supporting some of New York’s most prestigious executives at GILT, Cole Haan, GUCCI, Citicorp, and Cushman & Wakefield. As a result of many years working alongside, and learning from, some of New York’s best and brightest, the scope of Alison’s responsibilities have expanded far beyond that of a traditional Executive Assistant role. When she isn’t glued to a laptop, she enjoys spending time at the beach, exploring other countries/cultures, and relentlessly trying to develop a passion for running.

Dwight Merriman

Dwight Merriman is an advisor to AlleyCorp and is one of the original authors of MongoDB, the open-source document database. In 1995, he co-founded DoubleClick (acquired by Google for $3.1 billion) and served as its Chief Technology Officer for ten years. Dwight was architect of the DoubleClick ad serving infrastructure, DART, which serves tens of billions of ads per day. Dwight was also a co-founder and investor in Business Insider and Gilt Groupe.