Winston Fu is a General Partner at USVP, and he is dedicated to helping entrepreneurs build great
companies. Winston focuses on investments related to IT Infrastructure (both software and hardware
solutions) for cloud computing, data center modernization, Big Data applications and energy
efficiency.
Winston serves on the boards of Active-Semi, Box, Contour Energy Systems, Jeda Systems, Redwood
Systems, Qnovo and Xicato. During the past decade, Winston also served on the boards of Alchemy
(acquired by AMD in 2002), Brion Technologies (acquired by ASML in 2007), Clear Shape Technologies
(acquired by Cadence in 2007), Teknovus (acquired by Broadcom in 2010) and New Focus (NUFO made its
initial public offering in 2000 and was subsequently acquired by Bookham in 2004).
Winston joined USVP as an associate in 1997, following his selection as a Kauffman Fellow in
Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship, and he became a General Partner in 2000. Prior to joining
USVP, Winston helped found Vixel Corporation, which made its initial public offering in 1999
(NASDAQ: VIXL) and was subsequently acquired by Emulex (ELX) in 2003. Winston served in technical
and marketing roles at Vixel Corporation, which successfully brought fiber-optic-based Fiber
Channel and Gigabit Ethernet interconnects to market. Prior to helping launch Vixel, Winston
researched and developed technologies in the areas of semiconductors, lasers, magnetic materials
and superconductors at Stanford University, MIT, Sandia National Laboratories, and 3M Company.
Winston earned a bachelor's degree in Physics from MIT, a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Stanford
University and an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, where he
was an Austin Scholar.
Winston is a former captain of MIT's NCAA volleyball team and a former assistant coach for two
nationally ranked juniors' volleyball teams. Still a volleyball fan, he is an advisor to Front
Range Volleyball, a nonprofit organization dedicated to teaching and coaching juniors. Winston is
married and has two children.
Favorite volleyball player: Bob Ctvrtlik, playing opposite of volleyball legend Karch Kiraly,
earned a gold medal in the 1988 match against the Soviet Union. "Ctvrtlik was not a flashy player.
He just got the job done at truly a world-class level."
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