The Redpoint Team

John Walecka is a Founding Partner of Redpoint Ventures and is passionate about companies with disruptive products and innovative business models.

John is very active in Redpoint's investment efforts in the software area.  He is involved wih Quantifind's social media predictive analytics platform; Datameer's big data BI tools around Hadoop; FunSockets's HTML5 open gaming SaaS platform; and, Schooner's high-availability clustered mySQL database products.  John is also working with Avnera (cool audio products), Envia (leading Lithium-ion batteries), Fortinet (FTNT - leader in Enterprise UTM security) and InterMolecular (IMI - leader in combinatorial discovery platforms).

John has helped many entrepreneurs in the enterprise and broadband infrastructure spaces achieve success including: Entropic (ENTR), BCD Semiconductor (BCDS), Xylan (acquired by Alcatel), Wellfleet Communications (merged into Bay Networks), Synernetics (acquired by 3Com), Agile Networks (acquired by Lucent), Network Equipment Technologies (NWK), Polycom (PLCM), Onstream (acquired by 3Com), Avici Networks (AVCI), TransMedia Communications (acquired by Cisco), Lightera Networks (acquired by Ciena), Promatory Communications (acquired by Nortel), Netro (NTRO),  StratumOne (acquired by Cisco) and Trapeze (acquired by Beldin). In addition, John has led investments in a number of software infrastructure companies, including Sybase (SYBS), Documentum (DCTM), Object Design (ODIS) and Vitria Technology (VITR).  He has also been involved with Redpoint China companies Qihoo (QIHU), BCD Semiconductor (BCDS) and AMEC.

John is currently a Director of the Stanford Business School Venture Capital Trust, an advisor to the Stanford Engineering School and on the board of the SFMOMA. Prior to founding Redpoint, John was a general partner with Brentwood Venture Capital and worked at Hewlett Packard.

John received a B.S. and an M.S. in Engineering from Stanford University and a M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.