Ilya Fushman
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Ilya Fushman (born 1981) is an American physicist, venture capitalist and business executive.[1] Early in his career, Fushman was a principal investor at Khosla Ventures[2] as well as an executive at Dropbox.[3] He became a general partner at Index Ventures in 2015[4] and managing member[5] and general partner at Kleiner Perkins in 2018.[6]
Biography[edit]
Ilya Fushman was born in 1981[1] and has a master's degree in physics from Stanford University.[7] Fushman was a lead author on a quantum computing paper published in Nature in 2007,[8] and his research was also published in Science.[9] Early in his career he worked with Khosla Ventures as a principal investor,[7][2] and was also an executive at Dropbox,[10] where among other roles he was head of product[2] for both Dropbox and Dropbox for Business.[10] In 2014, Business Insider ranked him at 84 on its Silicon Valley 100 list of investors.[11]
He joined Index Ventures in San Francisco, California[12] in May 2015,[10][13] becoming the firm's first new general partner since 2010[2] and working with companies such as Slack, Intercom, and Optimizely.[3] Fushman was a speaker and judge at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2016.[14]
In March 2018 he joined the investment firm Kleiner Perkins as a managing member and general partner.[4][10] In a 2020 interview, reporter Emily Chang described him as a member of the "new Kleiner", after a large number of changes in the Kleiner Perkins board over the prior year.[15]
Business Insider ranked him 89 on its 2022 The Seed 100 list of "best early-stage investors."[16]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Geron, Tomio (31 July 2018), "Kleiner Perkins Grabs New Talent in Bid to Be 'the First Part of the Conversation'", The Wall Street Journal, retrieved 27 January 2023
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Index Ventures Names Dropbox's Ilya Fushman as General Partner", The Wall Street Journal, 21 May 2015, retrieved 27 January 2023
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Konrad, Alex (5 March 2018), "Ilya Fushman Joins Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers As Storied VC Firm Gets New Look", Forbes, retrieved 27 January 2023
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Ilya Fushman Joins Kleiner Perkins as General Partner", Wall Street Journal, 7 March 2018, retrieved 27 January 2023
- ↑ Schubarth, Cormwell (12 March 2018), "Ex-Dropbox exec on why he joined Kleiner Perkins and his plans for future there", Silicon Valley Business Journal, retrieved 27 January 2023
- ↑ Schleifer, Theodore (5 March 2018), "Ilya Fushman is jumping from Index to Kleiner Perkins", Vox, retrieved 27 January 2023
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Kosoff, Maya (20 May 2015), "A key Dropbox exec is leaving to become a partner at one of its investors", Business Insider, retrieved 27 January 2023
- ↑ Englund, Dirk; Faraon, Andrei; Fushman, Ilya; Stoltz, Nick; Petroff, Pierre; Vučković, Jelena (12 June 2007), "Controlling cavity reflectivity with a single quantum dot", Nature, 450 (7171), pp. 857–861, Bibcode:2007Natur.450..857E, doi:10.1038/nature06234, PMID 18064008, retrieved 26 January 2023 Unknown parameter
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ignored (help) - ↑ Fushman, Ilya (9 May 2008), "Controlled phase shifts with a single quantum dot", Science, 320 (5877): 769–772, Bibcode:2008Sci...320..769F, doi:10.1126/science.1154643, PMID 18467584, retrieved 27 January 2023 Unknown parameter
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ignored (help) - ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 Lynley, Matthew (5 March 2018), "Former Dropbox exec Ilya Fushman is joining Kleiner Perkins from ndex Ventures", TechCrunch, retrieved 27 January 2023
- ↑ D'Onfro, Jillian (7 March 2014), "The Silicon Valley 100: The Coolest People In Tech Right Now - 17", Business Insider, retrieved 27 January 2023
- ↑ Wilson, Nick (17 October 2017), "How VC firm Index Ventures is hunting for the next Deliveroo", Wired Magazine, retrieved 4 January 2023
- ↑ Wilhelm, Alex (20 May 2015), "Index Ventures Hires Dropbox Exec Ilya Fushman As General Partner", TechCrunch, retrieved 27 January 2023
- ↑ Friedman, Rebecca (9 September 2016), Meet the Disrupt SF 2016 speakers and judges, TechCrunch, retrieved 28 January 2023
- ↑ Emily, Chang (6 March 2020), We Don't Have a Full Picture on Coronavirus Yet, Says Kleiner Perkins Partner, Bloomberg Technology
- ↑ Russell, Melia (2 May 2022), "The Seed 100: The best early-stage investors", Business Insider, retrieved 27 January 2023
Further reading[edit]
- Schubarth, Cromwell (1 November 2019), "What Ilya Fushman says people get wrong about Kleiner Perkins, and whether a growth fund is in its future", Silicon Valley Business Journal
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