Apr
16
Henry Hillman, Who Helped Fund KKR, Kleiner Perkins, Dies at 98
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Pittsburgh billionaire expanded the family’s industrial base
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He was among the ‘least-known powerful individuals in America’
Henry Hillman, a billionaire who diversified his family’s Pittsburgh-based coal and coke fortune and provided startup funding for private-equity firm KKR & Co. and Silicon Valley venture-capital company Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, has died. He was 98.
He died Friday at Shadyside Hospital in Pittsburgh, Audrey Hillman Fisher, his daughter, said in a statement…
Henry Hillman, Who Helped Fund KKR, Kleiner Perkins, Dies at 98