Lauren Wagner is a venture capital investor at Link Ventures who spent a decade at Google and Meta leading trust and safety work, including building privacy-protected APIs and tools to counter misinformation, before moving into early-stage investing. She brings an unusual research-heavy approach to venture capital, actively mapping what she calls a social web stack to identify and back founders reimagining key components of online governance, data privacy, and decentralized identity. Lauren Wagner is a venture capital investor at Link Ventures who spent a decade at Google and Meta leading trust and safety work, including building privacy-protected APIs and tools to counter misinformation, before moving into early-stage investing. She brings an unusual research-heavy approach to venture capital, actively mapping what she calls a social web stack to identify and back founders reimagining key components of online governance, data privacy, and decentralized identity.