Jonathan Marino

Stipple Locks up $3M

Stipple, the image-based commerce and advertising firm, has raised $3 million more in financing from Sands Capital. Stipple is based in San Francisco. Other backers in the company include Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), Floodgate, Relevance Capital and Justin Timberlake.

Tech Talks Legislative Priorities & IPOs at NY Times DealBook Event

Technology luminaries, venture capitalists and entrepreneurs stopped SOPA in 2012, and, judging by their statements at the New York Times DealBook event in New York, they’re setting their sights on United States immigration policy in 2013.

Hot Startups' Stockholders Turn to Secondary Markets; Some Say in Swerve from Fiscal Cliff

Stakeholders in hot startups are heading back to secondary markets in the fourth quarter of 2012, and stocks like Tumblr, Etsy and Zendesk have been up for grabs—so what’s driving the recent selling activity?

peHUB’s Debut DealBeat

Today, peHUB is showing off its first in a series of online episodes we'll shoot in 2013. In coming pieces, we'll take on all kinds of different sectors, as well as different investment firms, but right now Reuters' Nadia Damouni and I talk healthcare & PE.

Panorama Capital Co-Founders Launch Founders Circle Capital for Secondary Tech Buys

A spun-off Silicon Valley VC sees one of its co-founders leave to launch a secondary tech investment fund. Founders Circle Capital is on the way to a new fund--which puts Panorama Capital's future in question.

Breaking Down Private Equity’s Recap Champs

Who’s stacking all that paper? It’s Bain Capital, the winner of the dividend recap league tables, according to a recent Reuters report. We track the rest, to kick off the week.

peHUB Top Ten

So what's the deal in December? peHUB's top posts last week tracked your job opportunities, VC valuations and fundraising scoops. Tune into our top 10 posts of the week to get your fix, if you missed anything...

peHUB Takes Boston--Photo Slideshow

Check us out! Sales stud Greg Winterton and I experience some ambivalent feelings about the holidays, but peHUB readers were all in agreement: Thursday night, was a great night for a happy hour in Boston. Check out our slideshow (with new clever captioning!).

Fifth Third Promotes Van Manen

Josh Van Manen has been promoted to lead Fifth Third Bank’s sponsor leveraged finance group as a managing director, the firm announced. The group focuses on companies with Ebitda of $10 million to $75 million.

EmailVision Sees its Way to New Pros

Dean Mansfield will join Emailvision, the SaaS company in New York, as president of worldwide field operations and Jim Beach has joined the firm as its CFO, both reporting to Emailvision CEO and founder Nick Heys.