Kristina Shen

Kristina Shen is a Manag8ing Partner at Chemistry VC. She previously worked as an Associate in the Menlo Park, CA office and focuses on investments in the cloud-computing and internet sectors. Prior to joining Bessemer, Kristina was an Associate at JMI Equity, a growth equity investment firm based in San Diego, where she focused on sourcing and investing in the software sector. Her investment experience includes WhiteHat Security, a SaaS web application security company. Prior to JMI Equity, Kristina worked in technology investment banking at Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse, where she worked across a broad range of technology sectors and transactions. Her experience includes working on the IPOs of Palo Alto Networks, Zynga, Fusion-io and Infoblox, as well as the sale of Q1 Labs to IBM and Goldman Sachs’ investment in Kno, Inc. Previously, Kristina held internships at Revolution Partners and Fisher Investments. Kristina graduated with a B.A. in Operations Research and Management Science from UC Berkeley.