Private Equity
New York City-based Prevail Therapeutics Inc, a gene therapy company, has promoted Dr. Yong Dai to chief technology officer. Also, the company has named Tim Adams to its board of directors as audit committee chair while Dr. Francois Nader, a member of the board, will expand his role as non-executive chairman. Prevail's backers include OrbiMed, Pontifax Fund, RA Capital Management, EcoR1 Capital, Omega Funds, BVF Partners LP, Boxer Capital LLC, Adage Capital Management LP and Alexandria Venture Investments.
4 min read · 16 May 2019
New York City-based Prevail Therapeutics Inc, a gene therapy company, has promoted Dr. Yong Dai to chief technology officer. Also, the company has named Tim Adams to its board of directors as audit committee chair while Dr. Francois Nader, a member of the board, will expand his role as non-executive chairman. Prevail's backers include OrbiMed, Pontifax Fund, RA Capital Management, EcoR1 Capital, Omega Funds, BVF Partners LP, Boxer Capital LLC, Adage Capital Management LP and Alexandria Venture Investments.
4 min read · 16 May 2019
Brooklyn, New York-based Zipari, an insurance software startup, has named Mark Poling as chief product officer. Zipari is backed by Vertical Venture Partners.
2 min read · 15 May 2019
Early-stage investor Defy Partners, which recently raised $262 million for its second fund, has tapped former Eventbrite exec Brian Rothenberg as a partner. He joins Co-Founders and Managing Directors Neil Sequeira and Trae Vassallo, who launched the firm in late 2017.
1 min read · 14 May 2019
Early-stage investor Defy Partners, which recently raised $262 million for its second fund, has tapped former Eventbrite exec Brian Rothenberg as a partner. He joins Co-Founders and Managing Directors Neil Sequeira and Trae Vassallo, who launched the firm in late 2017.
1 min read · 14 May 2019
Forge Global, a fintech company, has named Michael Carrier as senior vice president of digital assets. Carrier is the former CTO of IRA Services. Forge's backers include Tim Draper, Peter Thiel, FT Partners and Munich Re.
2 min read · 13 May 2019
BitPay, a global blockchain payments provider, has named Glen Braganza as chief financial officer. Previously, he was CFO at Worldpay US. BitPay's investors included Founders Fund, Index Ventures and Aquiline Technology Growth.
3 min read · 07 May 2019
San Francisco-based Bugcrowd, a crowdsourced security company, has appointed Mark O'Connor as chief financial officer. Previously, O'Connor was chief financial officer of Appirio. Also, Bugcrowd has added Greg Sands, founder and managing partner at Costanoa Ventures, to its board of directors. Bugcrowd is backed by Blackbird Ventures, Costanoa Ventures, Industry Ventures, Paladin Capital Group, Rally Ventures, Salesforce Ventures and Triangle Peak Partners.
4 min read · 07 May 2019
Hercules Capital, a specialty financing provider, has promoted R. Bryan Jadot to head of life sciences venture lending and Steve Kuo to head of technology venture lending. Prior to joining Hercules, Jadot served as vice president of the life sciences group at Silicon Valley Bank in Newton, Massachusetts while Kuo was a strategic member of Lightcross.
3 min read · 07 May 2019
Sentons Inc, a provider of advanced touch and force sensing solutions, has named Jess Lee as president and CEO. Lee's work background includes roles at InVisage, Apple, OmniVision and Silicon Graphics. In addition to this appointment, Dr. Forest Baskett, a general partner at New Enterprise Associates, will join Sentons' board of directors. Sentons' is backed by New Enterprise Associates and Northern Light Venture Capital.
4 min read · 06 May 2019
