Eric Kwan
InvestorManaging Partner at Locus Ventures
Palo Alto, California
Writes $100K – $5M checks · typically $1.5M
About
Eric Kwan is a co-founder and managing partner at Locus Ventures with over 20 years of software engineering experience across large public companies and startups. His specialties include team creation and organization, scalable server systems, web consumer sites, and software operations management.
Experience
- Locus VenturesCo-Founder & Managing Partnercurrent2016 — presentPalo Alto
- Terraformation Inc.Seed Investorcurrent2020 — present
- Panther🦄 Seed Investorcurrent2019 — present
- Meesho🦄 Seed Investorcurrent2016 — present
- Ironclad, Inc.🦄 Seed Investorcurrent2015 — present
- Razorpay🦄 Seed Investorcurrent2015 — present
- NotableSeed Investorcurrent2015 — present
- LobSeed Investorcurrent2013 — present
- OperatorFounding Engineer2013 — 2017San Francisco Bay Area
- FacebookSenior Software Engineer2007 — 2013Palo Alto
- Yahoo!Senior Technical Yahoo2005 — 2007
- OracleSenior Member of Technical Staff2002 — 2005Redwood Shore
- MarconiSoftware Engineer2001
Education
- Stanford UniversityM.S., Management Science and Engineering2004 — 2006
- Carnegie Mellon UniversityB.S. & M.S.(Hons), Electrical and Computer Engineering1998 — 2002
Skills & more
Android DevelopmentiOS developmentC/C++ STLAngel InvestingProduct DesignHerokuGoogle App EnginePHPJavaNode.jsPythonAmazon Web Services (AWS)
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JavaScriptLanguages Cantonese · Chinese · Japanese
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Colleagues at Locus Ventures
Network8
Armando PaukerScout
Co-Founder and Partner at Tensility Venture Partners
Edward SuhScout
General Partner at Alpine Ventures
Nitesh BantaScout
Co-founder and Advisor at Rough Draft Ventures
David Beisel
Co-founder and Partner at NextView Ventures
Drew Volpe
Founding Partner at First Star Ventures
Millie Liu Liu
Founding Partner at First Star Ventures
Varsha Rao
Executive Partner at Flare Capital Partners
William Chan
Managing Partner at Locus Ventures
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Frequently asked questions
- Where does Eric Kwan work?
- Eric Kwan is Managing Partner at Locus Ventures.
- What check size does Eric Kwan write?
- Eric Kwan typically writes checks of $100K – $5M.
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Also worked at Meesho6
Also worked at Lob4
Also worked at Yahoo!278
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