Active-Semi International

Winston Fu is a General Partner at U.S. Venture Partners, and he enjoys helping entrepreneurs build teams that are passionate, fun-loving and... fanatical about their pursuit to build great companies. Winston serves on the boards of Active-Semi International, CiraNova, Ponte Solutions, Princeton Lightwave, Superprotonic, and Teknovus. During the past decade, Winston also served on the boards of Alchemy , Brion Technologies , Clear Shape Technologies and New Focus . 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 served in technical and marketing roles at Vixel Corporation, which made its initial public offering in 1999 and was subsequently acquired by Emulex in 2003. As director of product marketing, he was responsible for developing new applications for the VCSEL device product line at Vixel. Prior to helping launch Vixel, Winston researched and developed technologies in the areas of semiconductors, lasers and superconductors at Stanford University, Sandia National Labs and MIT. 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.
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