Alastair Goldfisher

Ignition Partners adds Triantos to focus on AI and VR for enterprise

Ignition Partners, which last year raised a $200 million sixth fund to invest in enterprise software, has added Nick Triantos as a venture partner

Triantos joins Ignition Partners from SRI

Ignition Partners, which last year raised a $200 million sixth fund to invest in enterprise software, announced it has added Nick Triantos as a venture partner. Triantos, 35, will work out of the firm's Los Altos, California-based office. He says he will focus on enterprise software deals that incorporate artificial intelligence, machine learning, virtual reality/augmented reality and cybersecurity.

Twitter reaction to Trump's proposed carried-interest tax policy

The NVCA wasn't the only organization to respond to the Republican presidential candidate's plans to reduce the carried-interest tax

NEA's Sandell joins Robinhood board

Palo Alto, California-based Robinhood, a provider of a stock trading app, announced in a blog post that New Enterprise Associates General Partner Scott Sandell has joined the company board.

3D printer Formlabs inks $35 mln round led by Foundry

Somerville, Massachusetts-based Formlabs, which develops 3D printers, has raised $35 million in a Series B round of funding led by Foundry Group. Also participating in the round is Autodesk, as well as existing investors DFJ Growth, Pitango Venture Capital, and French businessman and C4 Ventures founder Pascal Cagni. The company has now raised $55 million in total funding. The company was founded in 2012 by a trio of engineers and designers from MIT.

VR game developer Owlchemy Labs raises $5 mln

Austin, Texas-based Owlchemy Labs, developer of Job Simulator and other virtual reality games, has raised $5 million in Series A funding led by Qualcomm Ventures, the VC arm of Qualcomm Inc. Also joining the round are HTC, The VR Fund, Colopl Next, Capital Factory and other Austin-area investors. The company was founded in 2010.

London's Eight Roads bolsters team

London-based Eight Roads Ventures has appointed Michael Treskow as a partner. He will focus on fintech, enterprise software and mobile businesses.

Smartwatch iBeat raises $1.5 mln in seed funding

San Francisco-based iBeat, maker of a heart-monitoring smartwatch, announced it has raised about $1.5 million in an oversubscribed seed-stage round of funding that wa co-led by Maveron, Subtraction Capital and Correlation Ventures. Other investors include angels Ali and Hadi Partovi; Russell Okung, an offensive tackle for the Denver Broncos; KKR founding partner Henry Kravis; the Band of Angels; and the industrial design firm Ammunition Group. Ryan Howard, founder and chief executive of iBeat, previously was founder and chief executive of Practice Fusion.

Food is changing and VCs are showing an appetite for it

As far as media dinners go, I attended one that was right up my alley last month.

DFJ Growth adds Dubick as principal

DFJ Growth, which is in registration to raise $500 million for its latest fund, has added David Dubick as a principal. For the past two years, Dubick has worked with early-stage technology companies at Lightspeed Venture Partners, where he was a senior associate and sourced or managed investments in CloudPassage, Docker, Dremio, Handshake, Parsable, CloudBees, Velo3D, SnapRoute, and Barefoot Networks, according to a blog post by DFJ Partner Randy Glein.