Hi, I work at 8VC as a Principal, leading early stage investments in AI and infrastructure.

In the past, I worked on systems research with Dan Abadi and was a software engineer at Neeva, Airbnb AI Labs, Pinterest and Microsoft. I still occasionally work on research on weekends (SIGMOD '25: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3725268).

During undergrad, I created a student-taught class on RL and competed in ICPC. I TAed for algorithms, ML, and advanced algorithms.

In my free time, I like reading, improv, and tennis.

Email me to talk about early-stage companies and new ideas.

Email: first name (at) 8vc.com
Twitter: @kevinniechen
Github: kevinniechen