Eric Vishria

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Eric Vishria (born 1979) is a general partner at Benchmark, a venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley. [1] Previously, he was CEO and co-founder of Rockmelt [2] and served as vice president at Yahoo [3] following Yahoo's acquisition of Rockmelt. [4]

Career

Vishria graduated from Stanford University at age 19 with a B.S. in mathematical and computational science and a minor in human biology. He began his career in investment banking at Broadview International and got his first entrepreneurial experience as an early employee at Loudcloud [5] and later Opsware. [6] When Opsware was acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2007 for $1.65 billion, Vishria was serving as VP of marketing. After the acquisition, Eric became vice president of the products, software, technology solutions group in HP Software. [7]

In October 2008, Vishria left HP to co-found RockMelt with Tim Howes, and launched the RockMelt social browser in November 2010. In 2013, RockMelt was acquired by Yahoo for a reported $60–70 million, [8] where Vishria started working as a Yahoo VP. [9] In 2014, Vishria joined Benchmark as a general partner, the first partner addition in over 6 years. [10] In November 2014, Vishria led Benchmark's investment in Confluent, an open-source data platform built around Apache Kafka. [11]

In 2015, he led Benchmark’s investments in Bugsnag, [12] an automated crash-detection platform, and Amplitude, [13] a provider of mobile and Web-based analytics that tracks user behavior. In 2016, Vishria led the firm’s investment in Contentful, [14] a content management platform.

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References

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  2. ↑ Helft, Miguel (2010-11-07). "Web Browsing Takes a Social Turn (Published 2010)". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2021-03-11.
  3. ↑ Hempel, Jessi. "Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's moment of truth". Fortune. Retrieved 30 August 2017.
  4. ↑ Geron, Tomio. "Yahoo Acquires Rockmelt Social Browser, Will Shut Down Apps" . Retrieved 30 August 2017.
  5. ↑ "Loudcloud Updates myLoudCloud Portal". eWEEK. 2002-03-28. Retrieved 2021-03-11.
  6. ↑ "Opsware: Taking the Pain Out of Network Management" . Retrieved 2021-03-11.
  7. ↑ "Eric Vishria" (PDF). Retrieved 2021-03-11.
  8. ↑ "Yahoo Paid $60M to $70M for Rockmelt — Will Dump Browser and Use Tech to Better Deliver Its Media and Mobile Properties". AllThingsD. Retrieved 2021-03-11.
  9. ↑ Yahoo acquires Rockmelt browser http://www.indiawest.com/news/12792-yahoo-acquires-web-browsing-software-developer-rockmelt.html [ dead link ]
  10. ↑ "Rockmelt Co-Founder Eric Vishria Joins Benchmark As Its Newest Partner". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2021-03-11.
  11. ↑ Lawler, Ryan. "Benchmark Backs Real-Time Data Processing Startup Confluent". www.techcrunch.com. Retrieved 3 December 2014.
  12. ↑ Loizos, Connie. "Bugsnag Nabs $7.2 Million in Series A Funding Led By Benchmark". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2016-08-17.
  13. ↑ Ha, Anthony. "Amplitude Raises $9M For A New Approach To Analytics And Pricing". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2016-08-17.
  14. ↑ "Berlin's Contentful raises $13 million to grow its API-driven content management system in the U.S." VentureBeat. Retrieved 2016-08-17.


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