I met Josh Becker in 2001 when he launched the Full Circle Fund, a giving circle for Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. As a growing and succesful network of highly connected people, Full Circle provides as much knowledge capital as financial capital to its grantees. In many respects, Full Circle reflects much of Josh’s values.

Since then he has gone on to start his own venture capital company, New Cycle Capital:

New Cycle Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm investng in a new generation of entrepreneurs who want to build great businesses that can change the world

We invited Josh to speak at our annual Board Retreat—along with Lucy Bernholz and Geoff Yang talk about how to find the next great company that will tapped underserved markets. In fact, he designed an entire conference around Zero Tradeoff’s—we of course like the sound of that — about not having to sacrifice financial returns in the pursuit of social ones.

Watch the video of Josh presenting to our Board.

Josh is also presenting on Wednesday at the Council on Foundation’s Leadership Summit on a session he designed entitled Mission-Related Investing: Leveraging Assets for Social Change.

Josh is one of the new venture capitalists that are making a difference on both the corporate and social sectors.