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Nationality | American |
Education | University of Texas at Austin ( BS) |
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Eric Feng is an American software engineer, business executive, and financier. He is a former general partner at the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, where he focused on leading early stage consumer investments [1] before leaving in 2018. [2] Previously he was CTO of Kleiner Perkins portfolio company Flipboard, along with other companies. [3]
From Texas, [4] Feng earned his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin [5] in 1999, [1] and received the IEC Everitt Award [5] [1] as the top graduating engineering student. [4]
He started his professional career at Trilogy Software, [4] where he cofounded Uberworks.com, [1] which was later acquired by a publicly traded Network Commerce in 2000. [6] He went on to hold leadership positions at Microsoft Research, [1] working with the Microsoft China research lab in Beijing [4] as a program manager. [7] In Beijing he co-founded [4] and served as CEO [1] of the online video platform startup called Mojiti, [4] which was acquired by Hulu in 2007. [8] As part of the acquisition, Feng joined Hulu [8] [4] as the founding CTO [1] and head of product. [5]
In 2010, Feng joined Kleiner Perkins [9] [8] and focused on sustainability [1] [5] [3] and digital media investments, [10] also becoming chief of staff to Kleiner Perkins partner Al Gore. [1] [5] Between 2011 [10] and 2015, [7] Feng incubated and worked at Kleiner Perkins portfolio companies Erly, [10] [5] [11] Airtime Media, [11] [12] and Flipboard, [12] [7] before rejoining Kleiner Perkins in 2015 [3] [13] as a general partner focused on early-stage consumer investing. [1] By 2016 he had led an investment into Handshake, a career network for college students, [13] and was involved in the funding of the dollar store goods e-commerce stores Hollar and BorderX Lab. [14] [15] He also recently incubated the video e-commerce mobile platform Packagd. [16] [17] He left Kleiner Perkins in 2018. [2]
Eric Feng | |
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Nationality | American |
Education | University of Texas at Austin ( BS) |
Occupations |
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Eric Feng is an American software engineer, business executive, and financier. He is a former general partner at the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, where he focused on leading early stage consumer investments [1] before leaving in 2018. [2] Previously he was CTO of Kleiner Perkins portfolio company Flipboard, along with other companies. [3]
From Texas, [4] Feng earned his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin [5] in 1999, [1] and received the IEC Everitt Award [5] [1] as the top graduating engineering student. [4]
He started his professional career at Trilogy Software, [4] where he cofounded Uberworks.com, [1] which was later acquired by a publicly traded Network Commerce in 2000. [6] He went on to hold leadership positions at Microsoft Research, [1] working with the Microsoft China research lab in Beijing [4] as a program manager. [7] In Beijing he co-founded [4] and served as CEO [1] of the online video platform startup called Mojiti, [4] which was acquired by Hulu in 2007. [8] As part of the acquisition, Feng joined Hulu [8] [4] as the founding CTO [1] and head of product. [5]
In 2010, Feng joined Kleiner Perkins [9] [8] and focused on sustainability [1] [5] [3] and digital media investments, [10] also becoming chief of staff to Kleiner Perkins partner Al Gore. [1] [5] Between 2011 [10] and 2015, [7] Feng incubated and worked at Kleiner Perkins portfolio companies Erly, [10] [5] [11] Airtime Media, [11] [12] and Flipboard, [12] [7] before rejoining Kleiner Perkins in 2015 [3] [13] as a general partner focused on early-stage consumer investing. [1] By 2016 he had led an investment into Handshake, a career network for college students, [13] and was involved in the funding of the dollar store goods e-commerce stores Hollar and BorderX Lab. [14] [15] He also recently incubated the video e-commerce mobile platform Packagd. [16] [17] He left Kleiner Perkins in 2018. [2]