Henry Hillman, Who Helped Fund KKR, Kleiner Perkins, Dies at 98

  • Pittsburgh billionaire expanded the family’s industrial base
  • He was among the ‘least-known powerful individuals in America’
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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.