Wendy Tsu

Wendy serves as a Generalist Partner where she focuses her time on AlleyCorp’s early stage consumer investments and incubation methodologies for new ventures. She leads concept developments and investing efforts in over a third of AlleyCorp’s consumer 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 and B.S. from the University of California, Berkeley.

NewCos, Meetup, RippleMatch, Department Studios, CoEdition, Buffy, Mosaic, Smallhold, Nara Organics, Ripplematch, Wonder, and more

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. Susannah also works on investments and incubations, largely focusing on consumer and ecommerce companies. She is also President and Co-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. 

Jorge Colindres

Jorge is an Associate AlleyCorp, where he works on incubation, identifying new investment opportunities, and supporting portfolio companies. Before AlleyCorp, he worked as a software engineer at early-stage technology companies in the New York area.

Jorge graduated with an MBA from The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, where he was a Consortium Fellow. He also completed his undergraduate studies with high honors at Boston University.

Florencia Herra Vega

Floh is the CEO & CEO of AlleyCorp’s Montreal-based development team, supporting AlleyCorp’s incubations as their technical right hand.

Floh was previously Director of Architecture & Platform at WorkJam, Co-Founder and CTO of Peerio Technologies.

Jeffrey De Flavio, MD

Jeff supports the growth of AlleyCorp’s healthcare practice as a co-founder and mentor for AlleyCorp’s founding CEOs and broader network, focusing on a range of projects across maternity care, digital therapeutics, and behavioral change – with an emphasis on pushing current thinking on the relationship between social forces and healthcare. 

Jeff has dedicated his career to broadening access to healthcare, particularly for the most vulnerable patients. His first company, Groups, has become the leading provider of value-based opiate addiction treatment. Launched while he was still a medical student, Groups was conceived as a space for patients to heal and discover common solutions to their shared problems. Having completed a 2019 growth round led by Kaiser Permanente, Optum Ventures and Leerink/SVB, Groups has become an important forcing mechanism for our collective acknowledgement and action towards one of the most troubling systemic healthcare issues facing our country.

Jeff is also a co-founder of Tempest, a holistic alcohol recovery program founded by Holly Whitaker that brings feminine-centric care to people poorly served by traditional addiction treatment.

Tai Hutchinson

As the Platform Director, Tai will provide post-investment support and services to portfolio founders, build content and build community within the ecosystem. Tai is a long time lover of all things operations, strategy and partnership management.

She is excited to support early stage founders and use her ability to connect the dots for founders and partners alike. Prior to joining AlleyCorp, Tai was the Program Manger for Techstars NYC. She received her Masters in Urban Planning and Economic Development from NYU.

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.

Blake Mandell

Blake is an Associate at AlleyCorp, where he splits his time between investing and incubating. Prior to AlleyCorp, he was on the investment team at Pace Capital, a NYC-based Series A-focused VC firm , and a consultant at the Boston Consulting Group. Previously, Blake also founded and exited a shared-space storage startup and was the top Cutco knife salesman in the country (out of 15,000).

Blake studied theoretical mathematics, neuroscience, and Buddhist studies at Brown University, where he was awarded the Catherine E. Kerr award for outstanding senior capstone.  He received a fellowship to study at the Yenching Academy at Peking University, where he received an MA in Economics. He has published research in developmental neuroscience and the economics of education in peer-reviewed journals. Blake’s experience as a first-generation college student led him to co-found The Alliance for the Low-Income & First-Generation Narrative (AL1GN).

Michael Maccariello

Michael leads Talent at AlleyCorp helping to identify, attract, and engage with entrepreneurs, investors, operators, and advisors. Michael has a strong passion for helping to encourage and better the entrepreneurship ecosystem in NYC and beyond.

Prior to joining AlleyCorp, Michael led GTM Recruitment for MongoDB helping to scale the organization from a small private company to a public company with revenues over $600MM a year.

Omar Njie

A third-year medical student at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Omar Njie has demonstrated commitment to healthcare innovation and addressing health inequities.

Prior to matriculating to Mount Sinai he worked as a healthcare consultant for Deloitte where he served clients in the provider, payer, and pharmaceutical sectors. He was also an early employee at Clover Health, a San Francisco-based health insurance company that leverages data and analytics to improve the health of Medicare beneficiaries. As a medical student, he co-founded the Diversity Innovation Hub, a nationally recognized venture working to address social determinants of health and improve minority representation in healthcare innovation. He has consulted for various healthcare startups and most recently worked as a Venture Fellow for Rock Health.

Omar is a recipient of the 2020 Genentech Diversity Innovation Fellowship, the 2020 National Medical Fellowships/Wayne Anthony Butts Scholarship, and 2018 Mount Sinai Leaders as Scholars Merit Scholarship. In 2013 he received his B.A. in Global Affairs from Yale College, and, in 2014, he received his M.P.H. in Health Policy & Management from the Yale School of Public Health.

Aya Darwazeh

Aya is an Associate at AlleyCorp, where she splits her time between investing and incubating. Prior to AlleyCorp, she was investing in entrepreneurs in emerging markets through Endeavor Catalyst, venture arm of the nonprofit Endeavor. Previously, she worked for customer data platform Segment, and multi-family office Stelac Advisory Services.

A graduate of Harvard College in Cognitive Neuroscience, Aya hails from Amman, Jordan. She is an avid traveler with visits to about 40 countries, a yoga-lover having completed 200 hours of yoga training, and speaks Arabic, English, and some French.

Jane Suh

Jane Suh is an Investor on the AlleyCorp Healthcare team and spends her time on incubation, identifying new investment opportunities, and supporting portfolio companies. She was previously a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz on the a16z Bio Fund, backing entrepreneurs at the intersection of healthcare, bio and tech. She was on the founding team of the Bio/Healthcare GTM Network group and advised portfolio companies on go-to-market strategy, business development, sales and product marketing. She was trained as a stem cell biologist, and combines her scientific expertise with her experiences in startups, finance and strategic partnerships to transform companies at the intersection of healthcare, bio and tech.

Prior to joining a16z, she led partnerships and marketing initiatives at an early stage healthcare startup, connecting cancer patients to clinical trials using AI technology. She operationalized and managed partnerships with key hospital stakeholders, oncologists, and nurses at the highest ranked cancer hospitals. Before that, she was an investment banker at Broadhaven Capital Partners and executed capital raises and M&A transactions, most notably was the $5.2bn acquisition of Interactive Data Corporation by Intercontinental Exchange.

Jane holds an A.B. in Human Developmental and Regenerative Biology from Harvard University. During her time at Harvard, she worked directly with the VP of GSK’s Regenerative Medicine group on its strategic partnership with the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, interviewing senior executives and key opinion leaders. She has published her
research on global strategic partnerships in regenerative medicine in Cell Press: Trends in Biotechnology.