ECE student beats out thousands to become a KPCB product fellow

Val Chibisov, an electrical and computer engineering student, has been selected as one of just five Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Product Fellows out of 2500 applicants for the program from 200 universities across the U.S and Canada. Chibisov is the only student from a Canadian university to be chosen.

The KPCB Fellows Program offers outstanding students an opportunity to gain significant experience working on uniquely challenging technical, design and product problems while also developing new relationships that are meaningful to their careers. In addition, fellows attend private events hosted by portfolio companies where they meet talented engineering and design luminaries from across Silicon Valley. The program has been featured in FastCompany, TechCrunch and The Next Web.

KPCB partners with the brightest entrepreneurs to turn disruptive ideas into world-changing businesses. The firm has helped build pioneering companies like Amazon, Electronic Arts, Genentech, Google, Nest, Netscape, and Twitter.  KPCB invests in all stages from seed and incubation to growth companies and operates from offices in Menlo Park, San Francisco, Shanghai and Beijing.