Private Equity
UiPath, an enterprise robotic process automation software company, has named Carl Eschenbach and S. Somasegar to its board. Eschenbach is a partner at Sequoia Capital while Somasegar is a managing director at Madrona Venture Group. UiPath is backed by Accel, CapitalG, Credo Ventures, Earlybird’s Digital East Fund, Kleiner Perkins, Seedcamp and Sequoia.
4 min read · 25 October 2018
ForgePoint Capital, a venture firm focused on cybersecurity companies, has named Ernie Bio as a vice president. Previously, Bio was a chief operating officer of Defense Innovation Unit, a Silicon Valley-based government startup.
3 min read · 22 October 2018
Jane VC, an early-stage venture firm that invests in women-led tech startups, has launched. Jennifer Keiser Neundorfer and Maren Thomas Bannon are the founding partners. According to the firm's website, Jane VC "was founded by female operators and investors with ties to Stanford."
1 min read · 19 October 2018
New York and Israel-based DarioHealth Corp, a digital health company, has named Glen Moller to its board of directors. Moller is currently an operating partner at Frazier Healthcare Partners.
3 min read · 18 October 2018
Team8, a cybersecurity think tank and company creation platform, has named Mike Rogers to its board of advisors. A former U.S. Navy admiral, Roger is the former ex-director of the National Security Agency and ex-chief of the Central Security Service. Team8's backers include Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors.
3 min read · 18 October 2018
Information Venture Partners has hired Toan Huynh as a venture partner, according to a news release. Huynh will soon be joining the Toronto investor from Citi Ventures, the venture capital arm of U.S. financial holding company Citigroup, where she is an entrepreneur-in-residence. Before then, Huynh held several entrepreneurial, executive and investment roles, including co-founder of Cloud Sherpas, a U.S. boutique cloud software advisory and consultancy. She will now lead Information VP’s new office in New York, assisting with sourcing, making and managing investments in the region.
1 min read · 16 October 2018
Sierra Wireless (TSX: SW, Nasdaq: SWIR), a Vancouver-based provider of device-to-cloud solutions for the internet of things, has appointed Kent Thexton as president and CEO. Thexton, who has led the company on an interim basis since May, will assume the permanent role in November. Thexton joins Sierra from Canadian early-stage venture capital firm ScaleUp Ventures, where for more than two years he served as a general partner. ScaleUp closed its debut fund last year at $100 million. Before then, he was a managing director at OMERS Ventures. Thexton also spent close to 25 years as a founder and operator of several technology companies.
4 min read · 16 October 2018
Menlo Ventures said it has hired Tiffany Spencer as vice president of marketing. Spencer joins Menlo from Bessemer Venture Partners.
3 min read · 11 October 2018
Real Ventures has recruited Marcel LeBrun as a venture partner, according to a news release. LeBrun joins the Montréal venture firm after more than two decades as a tech entrepreneur and executive, including senior vice president at San Francisco cloud-software maker Salesforce. He took on that job with Salesforce’s 2011 acquisition of Radian6, a Fredericton, New Brunswick, social-media-monitoring platform, for US$326 million. LeBrun, who co-founded Radian6 in 2006, was the company’s CEO. In the new role at Real Ventures, Fredericton-based LeBrun will source Canadian tech opportunities and support the firm's portfolio.
1 min read · 10 October 2018
Silicon Valley-based Alation Inc, a data catalog company, has named Steve Kennedy as chief revenue officer and Bob Block as chief customer success officer. Previously, Kennedy was senior vice president of field operations for Recommind while Block was CCSO at Jive Software. Alation was backed by Costanoa Ventures, Data Collective, Harmony Partners and Icon Ventures.
3 min read · 09 October 2018
