Eric Olson

DFJ Portage

Associate

Biography

Eric Olson is Draper Fisher Jurvetson Portage Venture Partners' first Associate. His responsibilities include sourcing deals and working on due diligence among other things.

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/managing duo of TECH cocktail, which is a semi-annual event for technology people in Chicago, Washington, D.C., Boston, and Boulder (soon to be in other cities) as well as a hub on the web for start-up related content.  Olson also volunteers at the Adler Planetarium where he unleashes his inner physicist/cosmologist on unwitting visitors and where he works on the Far Horizons Project (project goal: create a series of earth-orbitting nano-satellites for educational and scientific purposes).  Last, but certainly not least, he is the drummer for the Button Pushers (an alternative rock band in Chicago).

Olson holds a B.S. in Finance with a minor in Information Technology from Bentley College (magna cum laude).

Check out Eric's blog, Olson's Observations.