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

Companies Backed

Chips enabling battery-powered endpoint devices to operate better logo
Chips enabling battery-powered endpoint devices to operate better
Since 2016
The highest energy density Lithium-ion batteries  logo
The highest energy density Lithium-ion batteries
Since 2011
Phased array communication payloads for airborne and in-orbit platforms logo
Phased array communication payloads for airborne and in-orbit platforms
Since 2019
Intelligent food automation logo
Intelligent food automation
Since 2019
Commercializing a new approach to non-volitile memory, ReRAM logo
Commercializing a new approach to non-volitile memory, ReRAM
Since 2012
Robots that solve problems now logo
Robots that solve problems now
Since 2019
High performing digital pulse compression radars logo
High performing digital pulse compression radars
Since 2017
The future of 3D orthodontics logo
The future of 3D orthodontics
Since 2021
Empowering engineers to see their work in a new light logo
Empowering engineers to see their work in a new light
Since 2019
Enabling sustainable production with additive manufacturing and digital 3D production logo
Enabling sustainable production with additive manufacturing and digital 3D production
Since 2019
Bringing meaning to movement logo
Bringing meaning to movement
Since 2013
Enabling organizations to derive greater value from their data logo
Enabling organizations to derive greater value from their data
Since 2018
Building your digital proxy logo
Building your digital proxy
Since 2018
A new era of file data management logo
A new era of file data management
Since 2014
Affordable robotic machine operators logo
Affordable robotic machine operators
Since 2021
On a mission to make the world paperless logo
On a mission to make the world paperless
Since 2016
A new way to get to space logo
A new way to get to space
Since 2018
Taking the mistakes out of brushing logo
Taking the mistakes out of brushing
Since 2017
Enabling a safer road ahead logo
Enabling a safer road ahead
Alumni (LIDR)
Creating a scalable way forward where the supply of natural resources falls short logo
Creating a scalable way forward where the supply of natural resources falls short
Alumni (AMRS)
Making clean, reliable energy affordable for all logo
Making clean, reliable energy affordable for all
Alumni (BE)
Delivering on the vision of 3D printing logo
Delivering on the vision of 3D printing
Alumni (DM)
Empowering creators to capture images that were once out of reach logo
Empowering creators to capture images that were once out of reach
Alumni
Deep learning infrastructure logo
Deep learning infrastructure
Alumni (Acquired by Ripcord)
Power-efficient micro-LED Screen technologies logo
Power-efficient micro-LED Screen technologies
Alumni (Acquired by Apple)
Industrial Internet of Things logo
Industrial Internet of Things
Alumni (Acquired by HSB-Munich Re)