Ben Shih has been with Icon Ventures since 2003, rising internally from associate to partner rather than joining as an outside hire, and his path there included software development at Lotus Development (IBM), quantitative hedge fund work at MDT Advisers, and early-stage investing at Crystal Ventures. He holds MIT degrees in EECS and management science along with a Stanford MBA as an Arjay Miller Scholar, and his track record leans toward infrastructure and enterprise companies like DATAllegro, Avnera, 41st Parameter, ClairMail, and Infinera.
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AI, Cybersecurity, Health, Enterprise, Consumer
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Icon Ventures describes itself as "Foundational VC for AI," building on two decades investing in technically deep areas like cybersecurity and digital health, and it typically leads Series B and C rounds in companies such as Palo Alto Networks, FireEye, Proofpoint, Bill.com, and Teladoc after they've proven their product but before they dominate their market. The firm stays intentionally small and tightly integrated, with added teams in Dublin and Tokyo, and it runs a Canadian Engineering Talent Program that gives portfolio companies a dedicated in-house recruiter to help build engineering teams in Canada.
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