Private Equity
New Enterprise Associates Inc has promoted Carmen Chang and Dr. Ali Behbahani to general partner. Chang joined NEA in 2012 while Behbahani came on board in 2007.
2 min read · 23 May 2018
New Enterprise Associates has named Jonathan Golden as a partner. Also, the venture firm has appointed Dr. Matthew McAviney, Dr. Tak Cheung and Dr. Santhosh Palani as principals on the healthcare team. Prior to joining NEA, Golden was director of product at Airbnb; McAviney was a principal at F-Prime Capital Partners; Cheung was a venture partner at Merieux Development Venture Fund; and Palani was a vice president in equity research at Cowen & Company.
3 min read · 23 May 2018
Silicon Valley-based DCM Ventures, an early-stage venture firm, promoted David Cheng to vice president, according to a spokesperson for the firm. Prior to joining DCM, Cheng was a management consultant at Accenture.
1 min read · 21 May 2018
Santa Clarita, California-based SetPoint Medical, a biomedical technology company, has named Ankit Shah as senior director of commercialization and marketing. Previously, Shah was senior director of marketing and business development at Intersect ENT. SetPoint's backers include Morgenthaler Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, Topspin Partners, Medtronic, GlaxoSmithKline’s Action Potential Venture Capital Limited and Boston Scientific.
3 min read · 21 May 2018
Sofinnova Partners, a European life-sciences-focused venture firm, has named Dr. Martin T. Rothman as a venture partner. Previously, he was vice president of medical affairs for coronary, structural heart and renal denervation for Medtronic.
3 min read · 21 May 2018
LiveOak Venture Partners has named Mike Marcantonio as principal and Mason Rathe as senior associate. Previously, Marcantonio worked at Blue Heron Capital and Rathe interned at LiveOak while completing his MBA.
2 min read · 21 May 2018
Sapphire Ventures has named Paul Levine as a partner. Recently, Levine was president and chief operating officer at Trulia.
3 min read · 17 May 2018
The National Venture Capital Association has named Michael Brown to its board of directors. Brown is a general partner at Battery Ventures.
3 min read · 17 May 2018
Bain Capital Ventures said it named Sarah Smith as a partner. Smith will focus on early-stage investments across business and consumer technologies and marketplaces. Smith was most recently an investor at Graph Ventures and has served in executive roles at Facebook and Quora.
3 min read · 16 May 2018
Vancouver, British Columbia and Universal City, California-based Imagination Park Entertainment Inc, a digital content production company, has named Sheldon Inwentash to its board of advisors. Inwentash is chairman and CEO of Toronto-based ThreeD Capital Inc, a venture firm focused on the junior resource, blockchain and artificial intelligence sectors.
3 min read · 16 May 2018
