Candy Cheng

Candy Cheng is a producer, storyteller, and content creator. She joined Kleiner Perkins as Head of Content Identity in 2025 after leading content at Initialized Capital.

Before venture, Candy built a career in journalism, most recently as a senior correspondent at Business Insider covering startups and VC. She previously produced conversations with leaders like Tim Cook, Bill Gates, and Jack Ma as an executive producer at Bloomberg Television and worked on CNBC’s Mad Money w/ Jim Cramer.

Candy holds a bachelor’s in International Relations from USC and a master’s in Journalism from Columbia. Outside of work, she’s a ceramic artist, swimmer, and children’s book author.