John Walecka

John Walecka is a Founding Partner of Redpoint Ventures. Prior to founding Redpoint, John was a general partner with Brentwood Venture Capital, a firm he joined in 1984.

John leads Redpoint’s investment activity in the Energy and Materials sector. His areas of interest include alternative and renewable energy and storage, innovative new materials, efficient transportation, and energy management solutions. John is currently working with Envia, Intermolecular and Solyndra. In the Information Technology area, John focuses on critical infrastructure appliances and platforms, and he is currently working with enterprise and data center appliance companies Fortinet and Schooner.

John is currently a Director of the Stanford Business School Venture Capital Trust, an advisor to the Stanford Engineering School, and on the Investment Committee of Sacred Heart School in Menlo Park. Prior to joining Brentwood, John worked at Hewlett Packard and the Stanford University Smart Product Design Laboratory. John has also worked closely with a number of successful companies in the enterprise and broadband infrastructure space.

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