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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 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"). 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, financing and spinning out seed-stage technology companies for nine years. Through C2C, Micah is a co-founder and founding investor in Affinity Circles (2002), Adapt Technologies (2004, acquired in 2008 by WebVisible), Kuvera Investments (2005), and Kallout (2006). These companies have raised more than $30M in seed-stage venture capital.
In addition to C2C, Micah is a Consulting Professor at Stanford University in the Department of Electrical Engineering. Every year since 2006 he has taught the storied EE353 course (aka "Introduction to Business for Engineers"), covering New Product Development, Marketing and Finance for Stanford's Engineering and Computer Science graduate students. Prior students of EE353 (in the 1990's) have included the founders of Google, Yahoo! and Junglee (sold to Amazon.com for $180 Million).
Prior to co-founding C2C in 1999, Micah spent ten years managing early-stage technology research and development. From 1995 through 1999, he was a neuroscientist at the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to 1995, he held research positions at Caltech, Yale and MIT, where Micah led teams that discovered or commercialized technology 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 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 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. 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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