Kevin Efrusy came to Accel Partners in 2003 and serves as a General Partner. His
background is primarily as an entrepreneur and operating executive. He
served two stints as an Entrepreneur-In-Residence at Kleiner Perkins
Caufield and Byers where he started Corio, an ASP pioneer which went
public on Nasdaq and was acquired by IBM in 2005. Later he served as
the first CEO of IronPlanet,
an online marketplace for heavy equipment which currently sell...
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Kevin Efrusy came to Accel Partners in 2003 and serves as a General Partner. His
background is primarily as an entrepreneur and operating executive. He
served two stints as an Entrepreneur-In-Residence at Kleiner Perkins
Caufield and Byers where he started Corio, an ASP pioneer which went
public on Nasdaq and was acquired by IBM in 2005. Later he served as
the first CEO of
IronPlanet,
an online marketplace for heavy equipment which currently sells in
excess of $170M/year of equipment. Prior to KPCB, Kevin served as a
product manager at Zip2 and a consultant at Bain & Company.
Kevin invests broadly in software and internet businesses, but he
focuses on consumer internet companies, open source software, and
wireless application providers. He co-led Accel’s investment in
The Facebook and
Tumri, currently serves on the boards of
Metacafe,
Hyperic,
Xensource,
Terracotta, and
BBN Technologies and
Medio Systems. He is also actively involved in
Riverbed Technology and
Transera.
Kevin has an MSEE, BSEE, and BA in Economics all from Stanford
University, and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business
where he was an Arjay Miller scholar.
Click here to read Kevin's article on
The Elusive Great Consumer Experience.
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