Dr. Kyle Kurpinski is a Partner with the Tencent Exploration Team, a strategic investment group supporting breakthrough technologies that address complex global challenges. Kyle is a scientist by training, and focuses heavily on the medtech, biotech, and healthcare portions of Tencent’s portfolio.

Prior to joining Tencent, Kyle was Executive Director for the UC Berkeley / UCSF joint Master of Translational Medicine Program (2011-15) – a professional master’s degree program for bioengineering innovation and entrepreneurship. Kyle was also Senior Product Development Engineer for NanoNerve, Inc. (2008-11) – a medical-device startup company building next-gen tissue grafts for neurosurgical applications.

Kyle earned a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering and master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Michigan. He also earned a joint doctorate degree in Bioengineering from UC Berkeley and UCSF.