John Walecka

Who is John Walecka?

John Walecka is a founding partner of Redpoint Ventures. Prior to

founding Redpoint, John was a general partner with Brentwood Venture

Capital, a firm he joined in 1984.John works closely with

entrepreneurs to build industry leading companies in emerging

technology sectors and he is interested in innovative business models

built on deep intellectual property. In the Information

Technology area, John focuses on critical infrastructure appliances and

platforms, and he is currently working with enterprise and data center

appliance companies Fortinet, Trapeze and Schooner. In

the Semiconductor area, John looks for companies with unique

opportunities to build category leading companies. He is currently

working with EntropicCommunications, Avneraand BCD Semiconductor. IIn addition to his work in IT, John also leads Redpoint's investment

activity in the Energy and Materials sector. Areas of interest include

alternative and renewable energy and storage, innovative new materials,

clean coal and water technologies, efficient transportation, and energy

management solutions. John is currently working with Envia, Solyndra, Intermolecularand AMEC. John also works closely with Redpoint's China activities.John

has also worked closely with a number of very successful companies in

the enterprise and broadband infrastructure space. Key investments in

the communications products area include: Xylan (acquired by Alcatel), Wellfleet Communications (merged into Bay Networks), Synernetics (acquired by 3Com), Agile Networks (acquired by Lucent), Network Equipment Technologies (NWK), Polycom (PLCM), Onstream (acquired by 3Com), Avici Networks (AVCI), TransMedia Communications (acquired by Cisco), Lightera Networks (acquired by Ciena), Promatory Communications (acquired by Nortel), Netro (NTRO), and StratumOne (acquired by Cisco). John has also led investments in a number of software infrastructure companies, including Sybase (SYBS), Documentum (DCTM), Object Design (ODIS) and Vitria Technology (VITR). John served as Director of the Western Association of

Venture Capitalists (WAVC) and he is currently a Director of the

Stanford Business School Venture Capital Trust, an advisor to the

Stanford Engineering School, and on theInvestment Committee of Sacred

Heart School in Menlo Park.Prior to joining Brentwood, John worked at

Hewlett Packard and the Stanford University Smart Product Design

Laboratory.John received a B.S. and an M.S. in Engineering from

Stanford University and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of

Business.