Mike Mullen, a commercial real estate development executive, has joined the board of IndCor, a Chicago-based real estate company. IndCor is also a portfolio company of New York-based Blackstone.
3 min read · 14 December 2012
SanDisk Corporation, the publicly traded, Milpitas, Calif.-based flash memory stage company, has launched a new venture capital "iniative" to invest in startups that align with SanDisk's interests. Toward that end, the company has made its first investment in Whiptail, a data storage company that designs energy-efficient enterprise infrastructure equipment and that is located in Whippany, N.J.
3 min read · 14 December 2012
Gramercy, an emerging markets investment manager based in Greenwich, Conn., has formed a new Latin American PE team led by Gustavo Ferraro, a managing director and head of Latin American Markets at Gramercy, and David Britts, a managing partner at the venture capital firm Fuse Capital, which is winding down.
3 min read · 14 December 2012
This week, I was able to catch up with two wealth managers who always offer keen insights into how their ultra high-net-worth clients are feeling about things. These days, as it turns out, those clients aren't feeling so great.
5 min read · 13 December 2012
The Brussels-based, publicly traded chemical group Solvay has made an investment of five million euros in a new, Green Seed Fund, launched by the venture capital firm Sofinnova Partners. The fund recently held its first close, having collected 22.5 million euros.
2 min read · 11 December 2012
The Churchill Club, a renowned business and technology forum in San Jose, Calif., has brought aboard four new board members: Jonathan Becher, CMO of SAP; Deep Nishar, senior vice president of products and user experience at LinkedIn; Paul Saffo, managing director of foresight at Discern Analytics; and Chris Stedman, head of venture capital relationship management at SVB Capital.
4 min read · 11 December 2012
IDInteract, a new, Seattle-based marketing analytics startup, has raised $700,000 from undisclosed funding sources. The company is being led by CEO Matthew Standish, a former chief information architect at T-Mobile.
3 min read · 11 December 2012
Fenox Venture Capital of San Jose, Calif., has invested in the Tokyo-based flash animation company Dream Link Entertainment in a $5.7 million round.
2 min read · 11 December 2012
Sequoia's Doug Leone blabs boldly about the firm's closeted seed stage investments, investor Fred Wilson hasn't led a single deal in 2012, Apple redraws its maps after Australian drivers are led astray in scorching temperatures in search of a misplaced town, and so much more!
1 min read · 10 December 2012
Endosense, a Geneva-based medical technology company, has named Nicolas Marsault as its new CFO. Marsault has previously worked in a variety of managerial positions at Merck Serono. He replaces Endosense’s previous chief financial officer, Andrea Buscaglia.
2 min read · 06 December 2012
