Maxwell Wessel

Maxwell Wessel is a General Partner at NVenture in San Francisco, California, focusing on early-stage investments across artificial intelligence, climate technology, and enterprise software. Before joining NVenture in 2024, he was an investor at Sapphire Ventures and a strategy consultant at Boston Consulting Group. Wessel holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he served as faculty researching disruptive innovation frameworks, alongside a dual BA from Northwestern University. His venture portfolio includes prominent technology companies like Anthropic and Scale AI, and he recently led an investment in emerging generative AI ventures during the first quarter of 2025. He has published extensively in the Harvard Business Review, accumulating millions of article views, and co-authored the 2022 book "The End of Absent Friends." Wessel currently focuses on bridging academic innovation theory with practical business strategies for early-stage technology founders.