Wayee Chu

Investor

Wayee is an Associate Partner in NewSchools Venture Fund’s West Coast office, where she focuses on sourcing and supporting early stage education technology entrepreneurs. Wayee leads the NewSchools EdTech Entrepreneurship Lab, in partnership with Teach For America and the Stanford d. school. The Lab allows budding entrepreneurs to explore, develop and incubate innovative, technology-driven ideas that target educational inequity. Formerly, Wayee focused on NewSchools’ field-building work, planning and executing Community of Practice gatherings for entrepreneurs at the annual NewSchools Summit. Prior to joining NewSchools Venture Fund, Wayee worked for four years as an equity research analyst at Merrill Lynch in New York, where she covered the financial sector. She also served as finance director for a magazine publishing firm. Wayee started her career as a financial analyst at Morgan Stanley.