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Micah is Managing Director of C2C Ventures. Since 1999, his emphasis at C2C has been on sourcing and financing seed-stage technology companies out of universities. As an individual, Micah was a founding investor and advisory board member at BioImagene (spun out of UCLA in 2003, acquired in 2010 by Roche for $100 Million in cash), Stack Exchange (spun out of Fog Creek Software in 2010), and Hadapt (spun out of Yale in 2011). Through C2C, Micah is a co-founder and first investor in Affinity Circles (spun out of Stanford in 2002, license acquired in 2006 by Google), Adapt Technologies (spun out of Caltech in 2004, acquired in 2008 by WebVisible), an IP litigation partnership (2004, exited successfully in 2006), and Kallout (2006). These companies have raised more than $60 Million in seed-stage venture capital.
Micah has pursued dual careers in industry and academia. He joined the faculty of Stanford University in 2006, and is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering. His laboratory develops practical technologies and he teaches EE204 (aka "Business for Engineers"), which is an operationally-focused course on New Product Development, Intellectual Property, Marketing and Finance for Stanford's Engineering and Computer Science graduate students. Prior students of EE204 have included the founders of Google, Yahoo! and Junglee (sold to Amazon.com for $180 Million).
Micah began his career in 1993 working directly for Carver Mead. In 1999, he and Craig Johnson formed C2C. He is a techie and co-inventor of several U.S. patents related to electronic advertising and genetic engineering, and was recognized in 2003 by MIT's Technology Review magazine, as "one of the top 100 innovators of the world" ("TR100 List") and in 2009, 2010 and 2011 by IAM Magazine as one of the world's 250 "Leading IP Strategists" ("IAM 250"). 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 and received a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology. He can be contacted at
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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, a law firm specializing in representing high technology companies, which merged with Heller Ehrman LLP in 2003. 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 was 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"). Prior to his untimely death in 2009, Craig lived in Portola Valley, California and Jackson Hole, Wyoming and enjoyed biking in Europe and movies.
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Prior to joining C2C, Jeanette worked at 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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