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]

Early life and education

From Texas,[4] Feng earned his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Texas, Austin[5] in 1999,[1] and received the IEC Everitt Award[5][1] as the top graduating engineering student.[4]

Career

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 store Hollar.[14] He also recently incubated the video e-commerce mobile platform Packagd.[15][16] He left Kleiner Perkins in 2018.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "Eric Feng". Bloomberg. Retrieved November 6, 2017.
  2. 1 2 Chernova, Yuliya (2018-12-08). "Eric Feng Won't Join Kleiner's Next Fund as General Partner". The Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2020-11-10.
  3. 1 2 3 Yeung, Ken (October 13, 2015). "Mark Zuckerberg's sister officially joins Kleiner Perkins, along with Flipboard CTO Eric Feng". VentureBeat. Retrieved October 28, 2017.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Wang, Jack (May 18, 2014). "Hulu founding CTO and Flipboard CTO Eric Feng: Don't listen to your investors, never stop recruiting". TechinAsia. Retrieved November 6, 2017.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Eric Feng, Kleiner Perkins, retrieved November 6, 2017
  6. ↑ "Network Commerce acquires Trilogy's UberWorks". Puget Sound Business Journal. August 25, 2000. Retrieved November 6, 2017.
  7. 1 2 3 Primack, Dan (October 13, 2015). "Eric Feng leaves Flipboard to rejoin Kleiner Perkins". Fortune. Retrieved October 28, 2017.
  8. 1 2 3 Frommer, Dan (June 11, 2010). "Hulu CTO Eric Feng Leaves To Work With Al Gore At Kleiner Perkins". Business Insider. Retrieved October 28, 2017.
  9. ↑ Kincaid, Jason (June 11, 2010). "Hulu Founding CTO Eric Feng Leaving For KPCB, Al Gore". TechCrunch. Retrieved October 28, 2017.
  10. 1 2 3 Austin, Scott; McMahan, Ty (August 2, 2011). "Eric Feng's Clean-Tech Focus At Kleiner Perkins Lasts One Year". The Wall Street Journal. New York City, New York, United States. Retrieved October 28, 2017.
  11. 1 2 Thomas, Owen (February 8, 2013). "Flipboard Is Turning To Video, Hiring Hulu's Ex-CTO". Business Insider. Retrieved October 28, 2017.
  12. 1 2 Rao, Leena (February 8, 2013). "Former Kleiner Perkins Partner, Erly Founder And Hulu CTO Eric Feng Joins Flipboard As CTO". TechCrunch. Retrieved October 28, 2017.
  13. 1 2 Loizos, Connie (June 17, 2016). "Talking Kleiner 3.0 with Eric Feng, its new consumer investing partner". TechCrunch. Retrieved November 6, 2017.
  14. ↑ Perez, Sarah (November 3, 2016). "Hollar snags another $30 million for its fast-growing dollar store app". TechCrunch. Retrieved November 6, 2017.
  15. ↑ Magistretti, Bérénice (June 8, 2017). "Ex-Hulu CTO raises $7.5 million for YouTube commerce startup Packagd". VentureBeat. Retrieved October 28, 2017.
  16. ↑ Spangler, Todd (June 8, 2017). "Ex-Hulu CTO Launches Startup Packagd to Sell Stuff Using YouTube Videos, Inspired by QVC and HSN". Variety. Retrieved October 28, 2017.
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