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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. 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. 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. 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. 4.0 4.1 "Ilya Fushman Joins Kleiner Perkins as General Partner", Wall Street Journal, 7 March 2018, retrieved 27 January 2023
  5. 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
  6. Schleifer, Theodore (5 March 2018), "Ilya Fushman is jumping from Index to Kleiner Perkins", Vox, retrieved 27 January 2023
  7. 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
  8. 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 |s2cid= ignored (help)
  9. 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 |s2cid= ignored (help)
  10. 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
  11. D'Onfro, Jillian (7 March 2014), "The Silicon Valley 100: The Coolest People In Tech Right Now - 17", Business Insider, retrieved 27 January 2023
  12. Wilson, Nick (17 October 2017), "How VC firm Index Ventures is hunting for the next Deliveroo", Wired Magazine, retrieved 4 January 2023
  13. Wilhelm, Alex (20 May 2015), "Index Ventures Hires Dropbox Exec Ilya Fushman As General Partner", TechCrunch, retrieved 27 January 2023
  14. Friedman, Rebecca (9 September 2016), Meet the Disrupt SF 2016 speakers and judges, TechCrunch, retrieved 28 January 2023
  15. Emily, Chang (6 March 2020), We Don't Have a Full Picture on Coronavirus Yet, Says Kleiner Perkins Partner, Bloomberg Technology
  16. Russell, Melia (2 May 2022), "The Seed 100: The best early-stage investors", Business Insider, retrieved 27 January 2023

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