Eric Feng Explained

Eric Feng
Nationality:American
Education:University of Texas at Austin (BS)

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 before leaving in 2018.[1] Previously he was CTO of Kleiner Perkins portfolio company Flipboard, along with other companies.[2]

Early life and education

From Texas,[3] Feng earned his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1999,[4] and received the IEC Everitt Award[4] as the top graduating engineering student.[3]

Career

He started his professional career at Trilogy Software,[3] where he cofounded Uberworks.com,[4] which was later acquired by a publicly traded Network Commerce in 2000.[5] He went on to hold leadership positions at Microsoft Research,[4] working with the Microsoft China research lab in Beijing[3] as a program manager. In Beijing he co-founded[3] and served as CEO[4] of the online video platform startup called Mojiti,[3] which was acquired by Hulu in 2007.[6] As part of the acquisition, Feng joined Hulu[6] [3] as the founding CTO[4] and head of product.

In 2010, Feng joined Kleiner Perkins[7] [6] and focused on sustainability[4] [2] and digital media investments,[8] also becoming chief of staff to Kleiner Perkins partner Al Gore.[4] Between 2011[8] and 2015, Feng incubated and worked at Kleiner Perkins portfolio companies Erly,[8] [9] Airtime Media,[9] [10] and Flipboard,[10] [11] before rejoining Kleiner Perkins in 2015[2] as a general partner focused on early-stage consumer investing.[4] By 2016 he had led an investment into Handshake, a career network for college students,[12] and was involved in the funding of the dollar store goods e-commerce stores Hollar and BorderX Lab.[13] [14] He also recently incubated the video e-commerce mobile platform Packagd.[15] [16] He left Kleiner Perkins in 2018.[1]

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Notes and References

  1. News: Chernova. Yuliya. 2018-12-08. Eric Feng Won't Join Kleiner's Next Fund as General Partner. en-US. The Wall Street Journal. 2020-11-10. 0099-9660.
  2. News: Yeung . Ken . October 13, 2015 . Mark Zuckerberg's sister officially joins Kleiner Perkins, along with Flipboard CTO Eric Feng . . October 28, 2017.
  3. News: Wang . Jack . May 18, 2014 . Hulu founding CTO and Flipboard CTO Eric Feng: Don't listen to your investors, never stop recruiting . TechinAsia . November 6, 2017.
  4. News: Eric Feng . . November 6, 2017.
  5. News: August 25, 2000 . Network Commerce acquires Trilogy's UberWorks . . November 6, 2017.
  6. News: Frommer . Dan . June 11, 2010 . Hulu CTO Eric Feng Leaves To Work With Al Gore At Kleiner Perkins . . October 28, 2017.
  7. News: Kincaid . Jason . June 11, 2010 . Hulu Founding CTO Eric Feng Leaving For KPCB, Al Gore . . October 28, 2017.
  8. News: Austin . Scott . McMahan . Ty . August 2, 2011 . Eric Feng's Clean-Tech Focus At Kleiner Perkins Lasts One Year . . New York City, New York, United States . October 28, 2017.
  9. News: Thomas . Owen . February 8, 2013 . Flipboard Is Turning To Video, Hiring Hulu's Ex-CTO . . October 28, 2017.
  10. News: Rao . Leena . February 8, 2013 . Former Kleiner Perkins Partner, Erly Founder And Hulu CTO Eric Feng Joins Flipboard As CTO . . October 28, 2017.
  11. News: Primack . Dan . October 13, 2015 . Eric Feng leaves Flipboard to rejoin Kleiner Perkins . . October 28, 2017.
  12. News: Loizos . Connie . June 17, 2016 . Talking Kleiner 3.0 with Eric Feng, its new consumer investing partner . . November 6, 2017.
  13. News: Perez. Sarah. November 3, 2016 . Hollar snags another $30 million for its fast-growing dollar store app . . November 6, 2017.
  14. Web site: BorderX Lab Raises $20M in Series B Funding Round Led by Kleiner Perkins . PR Newswire . May 10, 2018 . April 9, 2024.
  15. News: Magistretti . Bérénice . June 8, 2017 . Ex-Hulu CTO raises $7.5 million for YouTube commerce startup Packagd. . October 28, 2017.
  16. News: Spangler . Todd . June 8, 2017. Ex-Hulu CTO Launches Startup Packagd to Sell Stuff Using YouTube Videos, Inspired by QVC and HSN . . October 28, 2017.

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