| Carnegie Mellon University, MS | 1975 |
| Electrical Engineering | |
| Stanford University, PhD | 1982 |
| Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
Andy Bechtolsheim co-founded Sun Microsystems while a PhD student at Stanford. He left sun in 1995 to found Granite Systems, a company focused on network switches.
He was one of the first investors in Google back in 1998 and is seen as one of the most successful Angel investors in Silicon Valley.
| Company | Date | Round | Size | Participants |
| Moovweb | 3/13 | Series A | $16M | 4 |
| Bluebox | 6/12 | Venture Round | $9.5M | 4 |
| Diffbot | 5/12 | Angel | $2M | 10 |
| Moovweb | 1/09 | Seed | $700k | 1 |
| Tapulous | 7/08 | Angel | $1.8M | 6 |
| Cresta Technology | 1/08 | Series A | $5M | 2 |
| 8/98 | Angel | $100k | 1 |