Wen Hsieh
Advisor
Wen Hsieh is an advisor at Kleiner Perkins where he focuses on supporting hardware-related investments. Before joining Kleiner Perkins, Wen was an associate principal at McKinsey & Company San Francisco and a leader of McKinsey’s Asia semiconductor practice. During his five years at McKinsey, he focused primarily on serving leading companies across the global semiconductor value chain. Wen’s secondary focus at McKinsey was on the North America biopharma sector. Earlier in his career, he founded OnChip Technologies, a startup developing MEMS microfluidic biochips. OnChip’s target market was high-sensitivity and high-throughput peptide separation and identification applications. Wen earned a B.S. with honors, an M.S., and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering, plus a Ph.D. minor in biology, all from the California Institute of Technology.
Investment focus areas
— Hardware technology
— Robotics
— Artificial intelligence
— Machine learning