Erica Wenger is a serial entrepreneur with an exit under her belt and a passion to help community-driven founders building at the earliest stages.

Erica Wenger is the founding General Partner at Park Rangers Capital, a venture firm backing early-stage software startups that turn customers into members and companies into communities, or what she calls “elephant companies.” Her viral essay Elephants, Not Unicorns has reached millions, cementing her as a leading voice in reimagining venture. She’s a serial entrepreneur (3x founder, 1.5 exits), employee #2 twice, host of the Trailblazers podcast, and content creator (75k+ followers). Erica brings a rare mix of operating grit, investing acumen, and platform reach that founders actively seek out. Park Rangers Capital has received funding from Catalyze (funding by Skoll Foundation, Sorenson Impact, JP Morgan Chase), Recast (funding by Melinda Gates's Family Office), Allocator One, Impact Assets, top GPs, unicorn founders, and executives from influential companies like Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, etc. Erica’s ideas appear in The Information, Business Insider, and TechCrunch. Follow-up essays like Elephant DNA and Getting off the Alphabet Train build on her thesis, and founders regularly call her “the most thoughtful” VC they’ve met.

  • Duolingo Company Handbook

    Tools of Titans by Tim Ferriss

    Beach Read by Emily Henry

    More than Enough by Elaine Welteroth

    Quit Like a Millionaire by Kristy Shen

  • My Childhood Home

    Any Broadway Theater in NYC (I see ~40 shows/year)

    Central Park in the Peak of Fall 

    Dodgers Stadium in LA

    Joan’s on Third in LA (order the Chinese chicken salad!)

    West Side Highway, NYC

    Fairmont Princess in Phoenix, AZ (esp around Christmas time)

    Sabich Frishman in Tel Aviv, Israel

    Talea Brewery in NYC (only female-founded brewery in the state!)

    Oxford, England (the whole town is magical!)

    MoMA Design Gift Shop

  • “Embarrassment is the cost of entry. If you aren’t willing to look like a foolish beginner, you’ll never become a graceful master.” - Ed Latimore

    “You may believe that living life to the fullest is seeing every country in the world and quitting your job on a whim and falling recklessly in love, but it’s really just knowing how to be where your feet are.” - Brianna Wiest

    “Saving $8 per day = $3000 per year. Reading 20 pages per day = 30 books per year. Walking 10000 steps per day = 70 marathons per year. Never underestimate the power of small habits.”