Private Equity
JLL Spark, a division of JLL, has named Eric Wittman as chief growth officer. Previously, he was chief operating officer at Figma.
3 min read · 02 May 2019
Chicago-based SMS Assist, a facilities management technology company, has appointed Marc Shiffman as CEO. SMS Assist's backers include Pritzker Group Venture Capital, Huizenga Capital Management, Insight Venture Partners and Goldman Sachs Investment Partners.
3 min read · 29 April 2019
The National Angel Capital Organization (NACO) has appointed Claudio Rojas as its new CEO. Rojas has more than 14 years of experience in finance, law and business and has worked with several organizations active in Canada's innovation ecosystem. He is currently managing director of Hurt Capital, a founder-focused investment and venture capital platform. Rojas replaces Yuri Navarro, who stepped down as NACO's CEO earlier this year. Rojas replaces Yuri Navarro, NACO's CEO since 2012. Toronto-based NACO represents more than 40 networks consisting of over 3,000 angel investors across Canada.
3 min read · 26 April 2019
San Francisco-based ThousandEyes, a provider of digital experience intelligence, has appointed Godfrey Sullivan to its board of directors. Sullivan is the former chairman and CEO of Splunk. ThousandEyes' backers include GV.
2 min read · 26 April 2019
Silicon Valley biotechnology investment firm Sofinnova Investments has hired Maha Katabi as a partner. Katabi, who has worked as a Canadian venture capital and public equities professional for more than 18 years, joined from Oxalis Capital, an innovative therapeutics investor she founded in 2018. Previously, she was a partner at Sectoral Asset Management, a vice president at Ventures West Management and an associate at T2C2 Capital. With Katabi’s hire, Sofinnova said it will open an office in Montréal, enabling the firm to work more closely with companies based in the Eastern United States, Europe and Canada.
3 min read · 22 April 2019
Silicon Valley biotechnology investment firm Sofinnova Investments has hired Maha Katabi as a partner. Katabi, who has worked as a Canadian venture capital and public equities professional for more than 18 years, joined from Oxalis Capital, an innovative therapeutics investor she founded in 2018. Previously, she was a partner at Sectoral Asset Management, a vice president at Ventures West Management, and an associate at T2C2 Capital. With Katabi's hire, Sofinnova said it will open an office in Montréal, enabling the firm to work more closely with companies based in the Eastern United States, Europe and Canada.
3 min read · 22 April 2019
OpenView has named Ashley Smith as a venture partner. Previously, Smith worked at GitHub where she was the vice president of marketing.
2 min read · 22 April 2019
Onfido, a identity verification provider, has named Kevin Goldsmith and Thomas Ammirati as chief technology officer and chief revenue officer, respectively. Also, Onfido has added Frank van Veenendaal, former chief sales officer and vice chairman of Salesforce, to its board. Onfido's backers include SBI Investment and Salesforce Ventures.
3 min read · 18 April 2019
Galvanize, a technology workforce educator, has named Harsh Patel as CEO. He is the former CEO of Hack Reactor. Galvanize's backers include Catalyst Investors, ABS Capital Partners, University Ventures, New Markets Venture Partners and Colorado Impact Fund.
3 min read · 17 April 2019
Israel and Massachusetts-based EarlySense, a provider of continuous monitoring solutions for the healthcare continuum, has named Matt Johnson as CEO. He succeeds Avner Haperin, the company-co-founder and founding CEO who has led EarlySense since its 2004 launch. Johnson is a former managing director at Sowell & Co. EarlySense's backers include Hill-Rom, Wells Fargo Strategic Capital, BlueRed Capital, Israel Innovation Fund, Argos Capital, Hotung Capital, Pitango Venture Capital and JK&B Venture Capital.
3 min read · 17 April 2019
