Eric Olson

Bio

Eric Olson is Draper Fisher Jurvetson Portage Venture Partners' first Associate. His responsibilities include sourcing deals and working on due diligence. Prior to DFJ Portage Olson worked in Partner Development at Google and in Business Development for DFJ Portage backed startup FeedBurner which was acquired by Google in June 2007. Olson started his career as an analyst at Cambridge Associates in Boston, MA where he focused on alternative assets and particularly Venture Capital. In his spare time Olson is one half the founding duo of TECH cocktail, a quarterly networking event for technology people in Chicago and the Midwest, which draws in 500+ of the best Midwest entrepreneurs each quarter. Olson holds a B.S. in Finance with a minor in Information Technology from Bentley College (magna cum laude) and is currently attending the University of Chicago Booth School of Business where he is pursuing an MBA with concentrations in Entrepreneurship, Marketing and Finance.