Eric Hjerpe

Eric Hjerpe is a Partner at Kepha Partners. Eric previously worked at Partner as a Atlas Venture. He attended MIT Sloan School of Management and Brown University. Eric Hjerpe brings over 25 years of operating and investing experience to Kepha Partners. In the late 1980s, he founded a software company that wrote desktop software for product development engineers. In the early 1990s while at MIT Sloan, he worked for the Center for Information Systems Research (CISR), studying new software development methods. In the mid 1990s, his team at Silicon Graphics was one of the first to deploy complex applications over the web. In the late 1990s, at Siebel Systems, Eric started the Siebel subsidiary SiebelNet, which partnered with USinternetworking (USi) to provide Siebel Enterprise Applications via the internet. He became interested in venture capital when, at Siebel Systems, he sponsored the company's investment in USi, which returned 12x in less than a year. Prior to Kepha Partners, Eric was a Venture Partner and Partner at Atlas Venture, where he spent 6 years.