Private Equity
Cambridge, Massachusetts and Baltimore-based Thrive Earlier Detection Corp, a healthcare company focused on incorporating earlier cancer detection into routine medical care, has named David J. Daly as CEO. Previously, Daly worked at Illumina, where he was the senior vice president and general manager of commercial operations for the Americas region. Thrive Earlier Detection Corp's backers include Section 32, Casdin Capital, Biomatics Capital, BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners, The Invus Group and Exact Sciences.
3 min read · 01 August 2019
Marc Bell Capital said Aug. 1 that Betty Sapp has joined as a senior adviser. Sapp most recently served as director of the United States National Reconnaissance Office, a joint Department of Defense and Intelligence Community Organization.
1 min read · 01 August 2019
Potter Electric Signal Co said Aug. 1 that it appointed Gerald Connolly as its CEO, effective July 29. Connolly succeeded Bernie Lears, who has decided to retire. Connolly most recently was president of Legrand SA’s wiring device solutions division.
4 min read · 01 August 2019
CRV announced it has tapped two new additions to its enterprise team. Joining the firm are Anna Khan as general partner and Kristin Baker Spohn as venture partner.
1 min read · 31 July 2019
South San Francisco-based Frontier Medicines, a biopharmaceutical company, has named Kevin Webster as chief scientific officer, Johannes Hermann as chief technology officer and James Winkler as head of degrader technologies. Frontier Medicines' backers include Deerfield Management, Droia Oncology Ventures and MPM Capital.
3 min read · 31 July 2019
San Francisco-based Tunein, a global live-streaming and on-demand audience service, has named Juliette Morris as CEO. Morris joined Tunein as chief marketing officer in March 2018. Tunein is backed by Sequoia Capital, Comcast Ventures, IVP, Innovation Endeavors, Causeway, General Catalyst Partners, Icon Ventures and Marker LLC.
3 min read · 31 July 2019
Simmons Energy, a Piper Jaffray division, has named Spencer Rippstein, Andrew Schroeder and Sanjiv Shah as co-heads of energy investment banking. The appointments become effective, immediately. Fred Charlton, current chairman, managing director and head of energy investment banking, will remain as chairman and managing director.
4 min read · 31 July 2019
Origin Ventures has promoted Scott Stern and Prashant Shukla to vice president, according to a company announcement. Also, the firm has upped Devon Leichtman to director of platform. Stern first joined Origin Ventures in 2016 while Shukla came on board in 2017. Leichtman also joined the firm in 2017.
1 min read · 30 July 2019
MATH Venture Partners has named Josh Leavitt as chief financial officer. Previously, Leavitt was a market president for Green Thumb Industries and the co-founder and CEO of Zoku Technologies.
2 min read · 30 July 2019
Grasshopper Bank has appointed Barbara Fleming as head of venture capital and private equity relationships. Previously, she worked at Bridge Bank.
2 min read · 30 July 2019
