Marianne Wu
Venture Partner at Congruent Ventures
Palo Alto, California
Overview
Work Experience
Venture Partner
2022 - Current
Congruent Ventures is an early-stage venture fund focused on climate tech and sustainable technologies.
Board Observer
2020
Board Member
2020
Fictiv is the operating system for custom manufacturing that makes it faster, easier, and more efficient to source and supply custom parts.
Raised $192,600,000.00 from FJ Labs, Angeleno Group, Bill Gates, Cross Creek, G2 Venture Partners, Activate Capital Partners, Accel and The Westly Group.
Board Member
2020
Everactive provides a hardware toolkit and managed network purpose-built for self-powered devices.
Raised $143,658,727.00 from 3M, Armstrong International, Ericsson Ventures, 40 North Ventures, Fluke, Asahi Kasei and New Enterprise Associates.
Advisor
2020
Board Observer
2020
Tamr offers an enterprise-grade data unification platform that allows organizations to consolidate and streamline their data operations.
Raised $69,200,000.00 from 40 North Ventures.
Board Member
2019
Menlo Micro is the developer of the Ideal Switch, an electromechanical switch technology used to switch AC/DC and RF.
Raised $227,500,000.00 from Piva Capital, Paladin Capital Group, PeopleFund, Lakewood & Company, Adage Capital Management, Future Shape, Fidelity, DBL Partners and Vertical Venture Partners.
Venture Partner, Standard Investments
2021
Managing Director, 40 North Ventures
2019 - 2021
Launched 40 North Ventures and built initial investment thesis and portfolio. Representative portfolio - Desktop Metal (NYSE: DM), Stem (NYSE: STEM), Proterra (NASDAQ: PTRA), Volta (NYSE: VLTA), Enbala (NYSE: GNRC), Aras, Carbon, Catalant
Board Observer
2018 - 2020
President
2014 - 2019
Led investing team and managed $1B portfolio across Industrial, Healthcare, Enterprise, and Digital. Investing thesis focused on digital disruption of traditional industries - vertical solutions and key technology enablers. Representative portfolio - Xometry (NASDQ: XMTR), Stem (NYSE: STEM), SolarEdge (NASDAQ: SEDG), Sonnen (NYSE: RDS), Sensity (NYSE: VZ), Bit Stew (NYSE: GE), Labcyte (NYSE: BEC), RigUp, ServiceMax, Trilliant, TTTech, Evidation Health. Strategic advisor to GE Businesses. Extensive network of GE Executives and alumni