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Don Wood

Don Wood is a published Xfund faculty/advisory affiliate. The directory supplies this professional context: Don Wood Managing Director Emeritus, DFJ. This undated published affiliation is scoped to the Xfund advisory/community network; it does not establish an investment-partner appointment, cash contribution, personal check or independently verified current outside employment. Current primary B Capital biography reviewed October8,2026: Don Wood is a Venture Partner at B Capital, where he focuses on Energy and Resilience Tech investments. Before joining B Capital, he was a Managing Director at DFJ. As a Venture Partner and Advisor at Energy Impact Partners, Piva Capital and B Capital, he and his firms helped to fund over 800 companies across climate, space, consumer Web and enterprise IT, including 40 that have achieved billion dollar or greater valuations (SpaceX, Planet, Coinbase, Tesla, Ring, Redfin, Twilio, SolarCity, Twitter, Box, AthenaHealth, NetApp and Skype). Since 2014, he has been on the faculty of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, teaching classes in both Climate Tech and Entrepreneurship. Previously, Don worked at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, as a consultant at McKinsey & Company, as the Senior VP of Sales and Marketing at International Power Technology and as Director of Product Marketing at Octel Communications (OCTL). He co-founded Wood-Howard Products with his patent for a laminated publishing format, selling over 100 million products under licenses. Don has served as Board member for 15 public and private companies, including wireless internet pioneer Metricom (MCOM), where he was also the President.