Member Bio - Eric Young

Eric Young co-founded Canaan Partners, an industry-leading early stage venture
capital investment firm, in 1987. Since then, he has led investments in numerous
successful startup companies, including: Argon Networks, Capstone Turbine,
Copper Mountain Networks, Cortina Systems, Diffusion Software, Ebates, Enpirion,
Frame Technology, International Network Services, Kalpana, Nellcor, Octel
Communications, ONI Systems, SandForce, Spectrian and Visigenic Software. An
advocate for advances in cybersecurity, Eric now serves as a director of firms such
as Lancope, Verance and Xirrus. He also serves on the Steering Committee for Sinet,
the cybersecurity industry thought leadership group. Before starting Canaan, Eric
was a SVP at GE Venture Capital. Earlier, Eric held several sales, marketing and
operations management positions within various GE industrial product businesses.
Eric earned a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Cornell University and an M.B.A.
from Northwestern University. An advocate of promoting entrepreneurship within
the Cornell community, he has served as a member of the Advisory Council of
Entrepreneurship at Cornell and the Advisory Board to Cornell Silicon Valley for
many years.

2765 Sand Hill Road
Menlo Park, CA 94025
650 854-8092
eyoung@canaan.com