Eric Vishria

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]

Vishria graduated from Stanford University at age 19 with a B.S. in Mathematical & 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. At HP, Eric was 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]

References

  1. ↑ http://pando.com/2014/07/25/you-likely-havent-heard-of-benchmarks-new-gp-and-that-says-everything-about-where-benchmark-is-going/
  2. ↑ The New York Times, Web Browsing Takes a Social Turn http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/08/technology/08browser.html?_r=1
  3. ↑ http://fortune.com/2014/05/01/marissas-moment-of-truth/
  4. ↑ http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomiogeron/2013/08/02/yahoo-acquires-rockmelt-social-browser/
  5. ↑ eWeek, LoudCloud Updates myLoudCloud Portal http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Enterprise-Applications/Loudcloud-Updates-myLoudCloud-Portal
  6. ↑ Enterprise Systems, Opsware Taking the Pain Out of Network Management http://esj.com/articles/2005/03/15/opsware-taking-the-pain-out-of-network-management.aspx
  7. ↑ HP Corporate Biographies, 2008 http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press_kits/2008/techforum/bi_vishria.pdf
  8. ↑ Yahoo Paid $60M to $70M for Rockmelt — Will Dump Browser and Use Tech to Better Deliver Its Media and Mobile Properties http://allthingsd.com/20130802/yahoo-paid-60m-to-70m-for-rockmelt-will-dump-browser-and-use-tech-to-better-deliver-its-media-and-mobile-properties/
  9. ↑ Yahoo acquires Rockmelt browser http://www.indiawest.com/news/12792-yahoo-acquires-web-browsing-software-developer-rockmelt.html
  10. ↑ Rockmelt Co-Founder Eric Vishria Joins Benchmark As Its Newest Partner http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/23/eric-vishria-benchmark/
  11. ↑ Lawler, Ryan. "Benchmark Backs Real-Time Data Processing Startup Confluent". www.techcrunch.com. Retrieved 3 December 2014.