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Kevin Henrikson

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Kevin Henrikson
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Kevin Henrikson is a San Francisco-based engineer, speaker, and investor. Henrikson has worked for or headed several companies, such as Zimbra, Alpha Brand Media and Acompli.[1][2][3]

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Henrikson earned his Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2000.[4]

At Zimbra, Henrikson served as the Director of Engineering and managed the development of Zimbra Advanced Client (AJAX based) and Standard Client (JSP/HTML based).[4][5] Zimbra was acquired by Yahoo! in 2007 for $350 million, which later sold it to VMware.[6][7][8] Henrikson then left Zimbra after Yahoo! acquired it and then worked for VMware[9] before leaving to serve as an entrepreneur in residence at Redpoint Ventures.[10][11][12][13]

Henrikson served as the Vice President of Engineering at Acompli,[14][15] which he co-founded with JJ Zhuang, and raised $7.3 million in funding for its mobile app product.[16][17] Acompli was acquired 18 months later by Microsoft for $200 million in 2014[18] and is now Outlook Mobile. Henrikson served as Partner Director of Engineering with Microsoft until joining Instacart in 2018 as their VP of Engineering.[19][20] Henrikson is also an angel investor, including having helped raise over $1.1 million for the Ministry of Supply.[21][22][23][24]

Henrikson has served as a speaker for various technology related conferences.

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