Private Equity
Forerunner Ventures has named Brian O'Malley as its third investment partner, according to several tweets and O'Malley's LinkedIn page.
1 min read · 22 June 2018
Andrew Sider has joined Canadian early-stage venture capital firm Real Ventures as an entrepreneur-in-residence. He will operate from the firm's Toronto office. Sider has in recent years served in a number of senior entrepreneurial roles, mostly recently as CEO of VarageSale, a buy-and-sell website and mobile app backed by Real and sold last year to VerticalScope. Before then, he was co-founder and CEO of Bunch, a discussion app for interest-based groups, also backed by Real and sold to VarageSale in 2014. Last November, Montréal-based Real closed its fourth early-stage fund, raising $180 million.
3 min read · 21 June 2018
DigitalOcean, a cloud platform for developers and their teams, has named Mark Templeton as CEO. His appointment begins July 1, 2018. Templeton is the former president and CEO of Citrix Systems. DigitalOcean’s backers include Andreessen Horowitz, IA Ventures, Techstars and Access Industries.
3 min read · 20 June 2018
The Ohio Public Employees Retirement System has named Paul Greff its chief investment officer.
2 min read · 20 June 2018
San Francisco-based Kinetica, an instant insight engine provider for the extreme data economy, has named Michael Mahoney as worldwide vice president of solution engineering. Prior to joining the firm, he was the vice president of solution engineers at MapR. Kinetica is backed by Canvas Ventures, Citi Ventures, GreatPoint Ventures and Meritech Capital Partners.
2 min read · 19 June 2018
Social Capital Partner Arjun Sethi is set to leave the firm in a year, according to a news report.
1 min read · 18 June 2018
General Catalyst has named Jonathan Klein as its newest executive-in-residence, according to an announcement from the venture firm. Klein is co-founder of Getty Images, where he was CEO for more than 20 years and currently is the chairman.
1 min read · 18 June 2018
Skylight, a provider of a connected touchscreen photo frame, has named Michael Segal as CEO. Previously, Segal was vice president at Bessemer Venture Partners.
2 min read · 15 June 2018
Washington, D.C.-based Strategic Cyber Ventures, a cybersecurity-focused venture firm, has named Marc Gonyea to its advisory board. Gonyea is the co-founder and managing partner of memoryBlue.
2 min read · 14 June 2018
Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Imara Inc, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, has named Dr. Rahul D. Ballal as CEO. Previously, Ballal was at Northern Biologics and Versant Ventures where he was chief business officer and an entrepreneur-in-residence, respectively. Imara is backed by New Enterprise Associates, Pfizer Venture Investments, Lundbeckfond Ventures, Bay City Capital and Alexandria Venture Investments.
4 min read · 13 June 2018
