Private Equity
New Enterprise Associates Inc has promoted Julia Schottenstein to principal. Prior to joining the firm, Schottenstein was an investment banker at Qatalyst Partners.
2 min read · 06 November 2018
Di-Ann Eisnor, a onetime director of growth at Waze and currently incubating new urban systems at Google’s Area 120, was named venture partner at Obvious Ventures. The San Francisco firm said Eisnor will help to find and fund world positive startups across the full stack of urban infrastructure.
1 min read · 06 November 2018
Bi-coastal venture firm CRV, which raised $600 million for its 17th fund earlier this year, announced Matt Heiman has joined the firm as a partner and Erica Van was named venture investor. Heiman, most recently at Greylock Partners, joins the San Francisco office of CRV, focusing on consumer investments and helping shape the firm's growth investments. He’ll be working closely with Saar Gur. Van, formerly at Presidio Partners and J.P. Morgan before that, joins the enterprise team in Boston as a venture investor, working closely with Izhar Armony to focus on companies based in Boston and New York.
1 min read · 05 November 2018
Canadian early-stage venture capital firm Mantella Venture Partners has recruited Chris Sukornyk as a venture partner. Sukornyk, a Canadian serial entrepreneur and angel investor, is the former CEO of Chango, a Toronto-based digital marketing platform he founded in 2008. Chango, backed by several venture capital firms, including Mantella, was sold to Rubicon Project in 2015 for about US$122 million. In the new role, Sukornyk will help source, mentor and scale Mantella's seed-stage technology investments in Canada.
3 min read · 01 November 2018
AllegisCyber named Mike Aiello a venture partner. Aiello, a cybersecurity executive at Alphabet’s Google, will continue in that role.
4 min read · 01 November 2018
Silicon Valley-based Aspect Ventures, a venture firm, has named Vishal Lugani as principal. Lugani joined the firm in 2016. Prior to joining Aspect, Lugani worked at Greycroft Partners.
3 min read · 31 October 2018
Industry Ventures announced several promotions and hires, including the elevation of Lindsay Sharma to managing director.
3 min read · 31 October 2018
Palo Alto, California and Tel Aviv-based Reduxio, a hybrid storage company, has named Mike Wall as chairman of its board of directors. Previously, Wall was chairman and CEO of Amplidata. Reduxio is backed by C5 Capital Cloud Partners, Jerusalem Venture Partners, Viola Ventures, Intel Capital and Seagate Technology PLC.
2 min read · 30 October 2018
Israeli venture firm Jerusalem Venture Partners has named Joy Marcus as a venture partner focused on digital media. A former executive at Conde Nast, Marcus will be based in New York City.
3 min read · 25 October 2018
San Francisco-based BetterUp, a leadership development platform, appointed Deborah Wolf as chief marketing officer. Previously, she was a vice president of corporate marketing at Workday. BetterUp's backers include Lightspeed Venture Partners, DFJ, Freetyle Capital and Crosslink Capital.
2 min read · 25 October 2018
