Shasta Ventures is strengthening its enterprise practice by bring in Jayaram Bhat as an entrepreneur in residence and Issac Roth as a venture advisor. Both have worked with the firm before. Bhat was CEO of Shasta-funded Zenprise, acquired by Citrix Systems, and Roth co-founded Makara, which Red Hat acquired.
1 min read · 04 March 2013
Athenian Venture Partners said Regi Kunnel has been named the firm’s controller. Kunnel has worked at GE Capital and the Easthill Group. Also at Athenian, Mary Strother was promoted to managing director, investor relations, and Danielle Allison to vice president of operations.
2 min read · 04 March 2013
Funds by TA Associates, Oak Investments Partners and NEA also rank high in the state pension fund’s latest report
2 min read · 04 March 2013
Last year, VCs invested more than $1 billion into 113 venture deals, up from $962 million in 111 deals in 2011
2 min read · 04 March 2013
Twilio and 500 Startups said the newly formed Twilio Fund Europe 2013 will be managed by 500 Startups founding partner Dave McClure. The micro fund will provide seed funding to startups in Europe that make use of Twilio's cloud communications APIs.
3 min read · 01 March 2013
Sumeet Jain announced on his blog that he has joined Intel Capital as an investment director to focus on consumer Internet, mobile Web and software investments. He was previously a partner at CMEA Capital, joining the firm in 2008 and sitting on boards at Apriso, Blekko, Intermolecular, Luminate, WorkingPoint and Zarly.
1 min read · 01 March 2013
A talk with Rothstein Kass’ Seth Blackman about the crosswinds in venture today, including the rising pressure on management fees and LP terms
5 min read · 01 March 2013
“Corporate venture investors want experienced venture capitalists. Growing programs. Big opportunities. No fundraising worries. We’re in the venture business to stay.”
5 min read · 01 March 2013
Standouts include such funds as Union Square Ventures 2004, Insight Venture Partner V and Canaan VII from 2005
2 min read · 01 March 2013
Last year security investing rose 5% to $1.02 billion at a time when venture investing overall fell 10%. The increase came after a hefty 94% jump in venture dollars committed in 2011.
2 min read · 26 February 2013
