Margit wennmachers biography

Venture capitalist and public relations executive

Margit Wennmachers is a venture capitalist at the Silicon Valleyventure capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and a co-founder of OutCast Communications (now The OutCast Agency), one of the tech world's top public relations firms according to The New York Times.^[1] She is one of a handful of women at high-profile venture capital firms^[2] and among the few venture capital marketing executives at the partner level.^[1]

Biography

Born and raised in Breberen, Germany, Wennmachers' father was a mushroom farmer who pivoted to raising pigs.

She was the youngest of four children.^[3] Her mother died in a car accident when she was 18.^[4] Wennmachers earned a bachelor's degree in business from the University of Lippstadt, Germany.^[5]

Career

Wennmachers began her career in the European office of a U.S.-based startup.^{[6][better source}