Catalyst Investors

Catalyst Investors and Translink Capital led the round with participation from S2G Ventures, Toyota Ventures, F-Prime Capital, and Cibus Capital.

This week’s jobs include a director at BlackRock, a VP at Evercore and associates at Wells Fargo and Catalyst Investors.

Growth equity firm Catalyst Investors in New York announced Kapil Desai, who joined the firm in 2014, was promoted to principal from vice president.

San Diego-based eSUB Construction Software, a field data collection and project management platform for trade contractors, has secured $12 million in Series B funding. Catalyst Investors led the round with participation from return backer Revolution Ventures. In addition to the funding, Catalyst Investors Partner Susan Bihler joined eSUB's board of directors.

San Diego-based eSUB Construction Software, a field data collection and project management platform for trade contractors, has secured $12 million in Series B funding. Catalyst Investors led the round with participation from return backer Revolution Ventures. In addition to the funding, Catalyst Investors Partner Susan Bihler joined eSUB's board of directors.

Galvanize, a technology workforce educator, has secured $32 million in Series C funding. Catalyst Investors led the round with participation from New Markets Venture Partners, ABS Capital Partners, University Ventures and the Colorado Impact Fund. In addition to the funding, Tyler Newton from Catalyst Investors will join the Galvanize board of directors. In addition to the funding, Galvanize is acquiring San Francisco-based Hack Reactor, an operator of immersive coding programs. No financial terms were disclosed.

Catalyst Investors said June 21 that Kapil Desai was promoted to vice president from senior associate.

‘It’s a very large market, very fragmented,’ Rafi Haramati of Garnett Station tells PEI Private Equity. ‘There is a logic to consolidation and proven players have scaled.’

Previously, Breslin worked at Solidia Technologies where she was vice president of human resources.

Pax8, a provider of cloud products for IT professionals, has raised $96 million in funding.

For the second year in a row, we reached out to readers and others in the venture capital community to find out who are the industry’s up and comers. It was a difficult task, but we crafted a list of 40 professionals under 40 who are certain to shape VC as the next generation of rising stars.

BrightFarms, an indoor farming company, has secured more than $100 million in Series E funding.

PresenceLearning, a provider of live online special education related services for K-12 schools, has raised $27 million in Series D funding.

K12 Inc has agreed to acquire Galvanize, a learning community for technology, for $165 million.

ChowNow, an online ordering platform for local, independent restaurants, has raised $21 million in Series C funding. The investors included 3L Capital and Catalyst Investors.