Private Equity
Dani Grant, an analyst with Union Square Ventures, announced in a blog post she joined the firm two weeks ago. She was most recently a product manager at Cloudflare, a portfolio company of the firm.
1 min read · 04 June 2018
New Leaf Venture Partners, a New York-based healthcare tech-focused venture firm, has named Dr. Martin Mackay as senior adviser. His appointment is effective immediately. Recently, Mackay co-founded Rallybio.
3 min read · 04 June 2018
New York City-based venture firm Primary Venture Partners has hired Steve Schlafman as venture partner. Previously, Schlafman worked at RRE Ventures and Lerer Hippeau.
3 min read · 31 May 2018
Toronto innovation hub MaRS Discovery District has appointed Annette Verschuren as chair of its board of directors, effective today. Verschuren replaces Gord Nixon, who will remain on the board. Verschuren, a Canadian entrepreneur, is currently chair and CEO of NRStor Inc, a Toronto-based clean technology company specializing in energy storage project development. Her previous executive roles include president of The Home Depot Canada and Asia and president and co-owner of Michaels of Canada. Last September, MaRS appointed NFQ Ventures' Yung Wu as its CEO.
3 min read · 31 May 2018
San Francisco-based venture firm 8VC has named Shaleen Devgun as an adviser. Devgun is the chief information officer and executive vice president at Schneider.
3 min read · 31 May 2018
Frederick, Maryland-based Fugue, which automates security and compliance in the cloud, has named Will Dunbar and John Morris to its board of directors. Dunbar is a general partner at Core Capital Partners while Morris is a former CEO of Cleversafe. Also, Frank Slootman, chairman and former CEO of ServiceNow, has been added to Fugue's board of advisors. Fugue's backers include New Enterprise Associates, Future Fund, Maryland Venture Fund and Core Capital Partners.
4 min read · 31 May 2018
Seattle-based Avalara Inc, a provider of tax compliance automation for businesses, has named Danny Fields as executive vice president of engineering and chief technology officer. Previously, Fields worked at MobileIron where he was SVP of engineering and chief software development officer. Avalara's backers include Sageview Capital, Battery Ventures, Warburg Pincus, Technology Crossover Ventures and Arthur Ventures.
2 min read · 30 May 2018
Algolux Inc, a Montréal-based developer of machine learning technology for autonomous vision and imaging, has appointed Ray Cisneros as vice president of global sales. Previously, Cisneros was senior vice president of worldwide sales and marketing at Omnivision. Algolux's backers include General Motors Ventures, Drive Capital, Intact Ventures and Real Ventures.
3 min read · 29 May 2018
New York City-based Prevail Therapeutics Inc, a developer of gene therapies for patients with Parkinson’s disease and other neurodegenerative diseases, has named Dr. Francois Nader to its board of directors. Nader was the president, CEO and executive director of NPS Pharma. The investors included OrbiMed, Pontifax Fund, RA Capital Management, EcoR1 Capital, Omega Funds, BVF Partners LP, Boxer Capital LLC, Adage Capital Management LP and Alexandria Venture Investments.
3 min read · 25 May 2018
Robert Mancini is retiring from Carlyle Group as of June 30. Mancini joined the firm in 2012 and is currently a managing director, partner and co-head of Carlyle Power Partners. He is staying on at the firm until the end of the year as a senior adviser. He was previously a managing director at Goldman Sachs. Mancini, 60, raised two funds to invest in the North American power generation sector at Carlyle. In 2013, Carlyle Power Partners I collected an aggregate $900 million in capital, which included co-investments, new products and an existing fund. Fund II closed on $1.5 billion in 2016. While he is retiring from Carlyle, Mancini said he’ll likely do something else. “I’d like to do something in the investment world that is different than investing in the U.S. power space," he said. Carlyle declined comment.
1 min read · 24 May 2018
