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Prior to joining C2C, Craig was the Chairman and Co-Founder of Venture Law Group. He graduated from Yale in 1968 (magna cum laude), spent two years teaching in the Peace Corps in Ethiopia, worked with Burroughs in Pasadena as a systems computer programmer and left to start law school at Stanford, from which he graduated in 1974. After law school he joined the Palo Alto law firm of Wilson, Mosher & Sonsini (now Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati) as its 14th attorney. In 1993 he left WSG&R with 13 other attorneys to start Venture Law Group, which today is part of Heller Ehrman LLP. Among the companies VLG helped to start were Yahoo!, Cerent (sold to Cisco for $7 Billion), Lightera (sold to Ciena for $600 Million), Foundry Networks, Hotmail and WebTV (both sold to Microsoft) and Rosetta Inpharmatics (sold to Merck in 2001 for $540 Million). Among the companies Craig represented from incorporation through initial public offering or acquisition were Adaptec, Wyse, Collagen, StrataCom, Aspect, SnapTrack, Gupta, MediaQ and IPWireless.
In addition to co-founding Venture Law Group and Concept2Company, Craig is the co-founder of several other companies, including Garage Technology Ventures, Financial Engines and Virtual Law Partners. These companies have raised more than $250 Million in venture capital.
Craig was recognized in 1997 by Business Week as one of Silicon Valley's top 25 "movers and shakers," in 1999 by Red Herring Magazine as one of nine Silicon Valley "top power brokers," in 2000 by the National Law Journal as one of the 100 most influential attorneys in America and in 2001 and 2002 by Forbes as one of the country's top private company investors ("Midas List"). Craig no longer practices law. He lives in Portola Valley, California and Jackson Hole, Wyoming and enjoys biking in Europe and movies. He can be contacted at
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Micah has been sourcing and financing seed-stage technology companies for nine years. Through C2C, Micah is a co-founder and founding investor in Affinity Circles (2002), Adapt Technologies (2004), Kuvera Investments (2005), and Kallout (2006). These companies have raised over $30M in seed-stage venture capital.
Prior to co-founding C2C in 1999, Micah spent a decade managing early-stage technology research and development. From 1995 through 1999, he was a research fellow at the University of California, Berkeley and a private investor. Prior to 1995, he held research positions at Caltech, Yale and MIT, where Micah led teams to produce and commercialize research using bits (as a software engineer), chips (as a VLSI circuit designer with his Ph.D. advisor Carver Mead), and bugs (as a molecular biologist). He is a seed-stage investor (and founding advisory board member) in BioImagene and an investor in Solus Biosystems as well as the co-inventor of several U.S. patents related to electronic advertising and genetic engineering. Micah is also a Consulting Professor at Stanford University in the Department of Electrical Engineering, where he co-teaches a grad course (EE353) on New Product Development, Marketing and Finance for Stanford's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science graduate students.
Micah was recognized in 2003 by MIT's Technology Review magazine, as "one of the top 100 innovators of the world" ("TR100 List"). He was born the oldest of six children and raised in Okemos, Michigan. He graduated from Yale University (Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude) with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering. He received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and in Molecular Biology from the California Institute of Technology with a fellowship from the HHMI. He can be contacted at
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Prior to joining C2C, Jeanette worked at Venture Law Group (now Heller Ehrman Venture Law Group) for over 12 years with experience in purchasing, marketing, human resources and customer services. She can be contacted at
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