Geoff Yang is a founding partner of Redpoint Ventures, a venture capital firm that partners with exceptional entrepreneurs to help build companies that define industries and shape the future. Geoff emphasizes investments in consumer media and infrastructure. His media and advertising investments include Ask Jeeves, MySpace and TiVo. Geoff is currently on the advisory council for the Stanford Graduate School of Business and previously served on the President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee. He is also a Director of the National Venture Capital Association and President of the Western Association of Venture Capitalists.
Josh Becker is the co-Founder of New Cycle Capital. New Cycle Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in capital-efficient businesses within the extended green economy and domestic emerging markets - sectors of the economy that are ripe for entrepreneurial innovation but lack access to sophisticated early-stage venture capital. He started his first internet company in 1994, when he co-founded IntraACTIVE, a pioneering groupware company. He was also one of the first employees of Earthweb, Inc. and—which went public in 1998. After joint degrees from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Stanford Law School, Josh joined Brentwood Venture Capital and then joined Brentwood’s Technology partners in 1999 in founding Redpoint Ventures. Josh is an advisor to Energy Unlimited, a pioneering wind energy company. He is co-founder of the Freedom Prize Foundation and the founder and chairman of Full Circle Fund. He is on the board of trustees for the newest campus of the University of California System, the University of California at Merced. Josh was recently named as one of the top people-under forty-to watch in Silicon Valley by the San Jose Business Journal. He was also selected to be part of the SV 100, a group of the hundred most influential people in Silicon Valley.