Kirill Sheynkman

Bio

Kirill Sheynkman is a Venture Partner with Greycroft LLC, based in the New York office. Kirill is 20-year software industry veteran, who has spent 10 of those years as a CEO of software companies. He is a three-time founder of venture-backed enterprise software companies, including an early relational OLAP vendor acquired by IBM in 1995 and Plumtree Software (NASDAQ: PLUM), the creator of the corporate portal market, acquired by BEA/Oracle in 2005. Kirill's companies were twice backed by Sequoia Capital where he was also an Entrepreneur in Residence. Kirill also held sales, product management, and business development positions at Oracle and Microsoft. Kirill is a passionate technologist, writes code in his spare time, and is fascinated by breakthrough software that can revolutionize or create big markets. Kirill was born in Russia and had a chance to leverage his background when he was part of the first team that took Oracle's technology to the former USSR in the early 1990's. Kirill holds a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Stanford University and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at U.C. Berkeley.