Private Equity
Palo Alto, California and Tel Aviv-based Reduxio, a hybrid storage company, has named Danny Yamin to its board of directors. Yamin was recently Microsoft's vice president, enterprise business, Greater China. Reduxio is backed by C5 Capital Cloud Partners, Jerusalem Venture Partners, Viola Ventures, Intel Capital and Seagate Technology PLC.
2 min read · 15 November 2018
Lux Capital has made a number of promotions, according to a blog post. Segolene Scarborough is now chief financial officer; Zavain Dar has been promoted to partner; and Brandon Reeves is now a principal. The Menlo Park, California-based venture firm invests in emerging technologies in the physical and life sciences industries.
1 min read · 15 November 2018
Poshmark, a social commerce platform for retailers and shoppers, has named Steven Tristan Young as chief marketing officer. Previously, Young worked at GrubHub. Poshmark's backers include Mayfield, Menlo Ventures, GGV Capital, Temasek, Inventus Capital, Uncork Capital, Union Grove Venture Partners, Shea Ventures and AngelList.
3 min read · 13 November 2018
1 min read · 13 November 2018
San Francisco-based Copper, a provider of productivity CRM solutions, has named Adrian Ivanov as chief revenue officer and Charles Ashworth as chief people officer. Also, the company has promoted M.G. Thibaut to senior vice president of finance and operations. Copper's backers include GV, NextWorld Capital, Norwest Ventures and True Ventures.
3 min read · 13 November 2018
Lightspeed POS, a Montréal-based point-of-sale software solution for retailers and restaurateurs, has appointed Patrick Pichette to its board. Pichette, a former CFO at Google, has been a general partner at Canadian venture capital firm iNovia Capital since April 2018. INovia is a longtime backer of Lightspeed, joining last year's Series D financing, which raised about $207 million (US$166 million). The company's other new board members are Tandem International's Marie-Josée Lamothe, Rob Williams, formerly of Amazon, and Paul McFeeters, formerly of OpenText.
3 min read · 12 November 2018
Sapphire Ventures has named Scott Brown as vice president of marketing. Previously, he worked at Quantcast where he led global product marketing.
2 min read · 07 November 2018
BIP Capital has named Dan Drechsel as senior vice president. Previously, he was CEO at Wellview Health, a portfolio company of BIP Capital.
2 min read · 07 November 2018
San Mateo, California-based EverString, a B2B data platform, has named Santosh Sharan as CEO. Previously, Sharan was chief operating officer at Aberdeen. EverString's backers include Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, IDG Ventures and Lakestar.
3 min read · 06 November 2018
San Francisco-based Harness, a continuous delivery-as-a-service platform, has named Jason Eubanks as chief revenue officer. Previously, he was CRO at Markforged. Harness is backed by Menlo Ventures.
4 min read · 06 November 2018
