Grace Wang
Grace Wang is an investor at Sorenson Capital, where she focuses on early-stage software investments.
She is a graduate of Emory University, where she received a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management and Environmental Science, and has prior experience in the airline, grocery retail, and apparel industries. She enjoys building relationships with founders and supporting those who are laser-focused on achieving their goals.
Q&A
What are you doing when you're not working?
I enjoy volunteering on farms, taking day/weekend trips, and being active outdoors (playing pickleball, hiking). I also love to travel with a focus on immersing myself in local experiences and spending as little time as possible at my hotel.
What skill would you love to learn?
I love snorkeling and spending time in the water, so a natural next step is mastering scuba diving and getting certified.
What's your favorite dish at a restaurant?
Spicy fish stew at New Moon Chinese Restaurant in Thailand.
What's your favorite sweet treat?
Ginger ice cream from Christina’s Homemade Ice Cream in Cambridge, MA, or malted milk and fudge ice cream from Super Secret Ice Cream in Bethlehem, NH.
Bio
Grace is motivated by a deep respect for entrepreneurship shaped by seeing founders in her own family build businesses from the ground up. Witnessing both the sacrifices and the impact of committing fully to a vision drew her to early-stage investing as a critical inflection point where conviction, execution, and partnership converge.
“An ideal founder is deeply knowledgeable about their space, but led by curiosity that keeps them learning. They balance intelligence with humility, reflect on their own patterns, and evolve how they operate with a clear north star in mind. They choose their hard intentionally, balancing conviction with evidence and letting the data speak.”
What excites Grace most about working with early-stage companies is the people. She is deeply people-oriented and energized by building close relationships with founders and teams as they translate early ideas into real businesses. For her, the early stage is where conviction, collaboration, and trust matter most, and where thoughtful partnership can have an outsized impact.
Grace has been shaped by observing founders who create momentum through consistency rather than intensity. She recalls working with a founder who demonstrated exceptional follow-through. That experience reinforced a core belief in her approach to investing: momentum is created by initiating action and sustained through disciplined, ongoing effort.
“I define success as the willingness to pursue challenging endeavors and being comfortable with discomfort. I am motivated by continuous learning and by people who question my perspective and deepen my thinking. I often return to Rainer Maria Rilke’s words, “live the questions now,” as an expression of my desire to never exhaust my sense of curiosity”
This perspective shapes how Grace partners with founders and teams. She believes the most meaningful progress comes from curiosity, consistency, and trust built over time, and she is energized by supporting founders as they navigate uncertainty, ask better questions, and build with intention in the earliest stages of their journey.
