Wen Hsieh co-founded Matter Venture Partners (MVP) in January 2023. MVP is a $311M Silicon Valley-based venture fund focused on early-stage investments in semiconductors, robotics/Robotics-as-a-Service, AI infrastructure, manufacturing tech, energy building blocks and automation tools for life sciences. Prior to MVP, Wen was a Managing Partner at Kleiner Perkins (KP) and KP China – where he led the hardtech practice.

Before joining KP, Wen was an Associate Principal at McKinsey & Co in San Francisco and a leader of McKinsey’s semiconductor practice. Prior to McKinsey, Wen founded OnChip Technologies, a startup developing MEMS microfluidic biochips.

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.