Steve Kishi
Managing Director at Aspenwood Ventures
Burlingame, California
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Director
2021 - Current
Aspenwood Ventures represents the next generation of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners- building on the prior success of HWVP with a team that has a long history working together in the HWVP investing model. We remain focused on finding category winning companies in the enterprise software space like our previous successes with investments in companies like Mulesoft, Sonatype, Five9 and Aria Systems. Current active investments include Hopin, Arkose Labs, Vendia, Klue, Clarify Health Solutions, Aria Systems, and TidalScale.
Aspenwood Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage enterprise software companies.
Managing Director
2015
Managing Director at the early-stage venture capital firm focused on enterprise software applications and infrastructure. Hummer Winblad Venture Partners was founded in 1989 as the first venture capital fund to invest exclusively in software companies. Through our history, we’ve had the opportunity to invest in the pioneers and leaders of several generations of software applications, architectures, delivery methods and business models. I've been with Hummer Winblad or our portfolio companies as an operating executive for most of the last couple decades.
Hummer Winblad Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage enterprise software companies.
VP of Product Management
2013 - 2016
Led product management at the company that developed the first purpose-built Hadoop cloud service. Helped sell the first customers, contributor to early marketing efforts. Involved in Series A and B financings. Managed product partnerships to make Hadoop into a platform consumable directly by business users. Altiscale was acquired by SAP.
Altiscale is a Big Data platform that operates through the cloud service.
Raised $42,000,000.00 from Sequoia Capital, Northgate Capital, General Catalyst, Boston Seed Capital, Accel, Wildcat Venture Partners and AME Cloud Ventures.
Director of Product Management
2006 - 2013
Joined VMware through Akimbi acquisition. Product Management lead for Lab Manager, vCloud Director, and hybrid cloud products. Strategy work on VSPP, SMB, OpenStack and AWS. IPO: VMW
VMware Cloud allows users to run, manage, connect and secure an entire portfolio on any cloud to any device.
VP of Product Management, Services and Support
2005 - 2006
Led product management at the company that pioneered the Virtual Lab Automation space. Wore many hats-- managing product management, support, and training. Akimbi was acquired by VMware.
Principal
2001 - 2005
Hummer Winblad Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage enterprise software companies.
Senior Director of Professional Services; Senior Marketing Manager
1997 - 2001
First marketing employee at the web-based enterprise application company. Subsequently created international Professional Services organization, signed and trained European implementation partners, and implemented customers in 39 countries. Worked closely with the Extensity salesforce to sell to international accounts. IPO:EXTN
Extensity is an enterprise software company that provides financial and operational solutions.
Associate
1994 - 1997
Hummer Winblad Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage enterprise software companies.
VP of Engineering
1991 - 1993
Officer of high-tech consulting firm.
Diversified Technologies, Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets high-voltage, solid-state, pulsed power modulators and power suplies.
Raised $199,824.00 from US Department of Energy.
Configuration Design Engineer
1989 - 1991
Configuration design engineer for the National Aerospace Plane. Represented MDC at the National Program Office.
Boeing Defense, Space & Security is a company that specializes in the advancement of different technological aspects.