Private Equity
Trident Capital Cybersecurity said it named Myrna Soto as a partner.
1 min read · 16 April 2018
Entrepreneur Nuno Sebastiao has joined Oak HC/FT as a senior adviser to the firm's fintech team. Sebastiao will help the firm identify and invest in the fintech sector. Sebastiao is co-founder and chief executive of San Mateo, California-based Feedzai, an existing Oak HC/FT portfolio company that provides risk management solutions for banks using artificial intelligence technology.
1 min read · 13 April 2018
Thrive Capital Partner Chris Paik appears to be leaving the firm to start his own fund, Axios reported on Wednesday. Paik's LinkedIn profile doesn't yet reflect the change.
1 min read · 11 April 2018
Canadian venture capital firm iNovia Capital has hired Patrick Pichette and Dennis Kavelman as general partners. Among the new GPs’ former financial and operational roles, Pichette served as senior vice president and CFO at Google LLC, while Kavelman served as CFO and COO at Blackberry Ltd. Additionally, Montréal-based iNovia said it is expanding into Europe by opening an office in London, where Pichette will be based. Kavelman will operate from the firm’s Toronto-Waterloo office. INovia said it is also adding team members to its San Francisco location. Finally, iNovia said it plans to expand its market strategy to include growth equity investing.
3 min read · 11 April 2018
Canadian venture capital firm iNovia Capital has hired Patrick Pichette and Dennis Kavelman as general partners. Among the new GPs' former financial and operational roles, Pichette served as senior vice president and CFO at Google LLC, while Kavelman served as CFO and COO at Blackberry Ltd. Additionally, Montréal-based iNovia said it is expanding into Europe by opening an office in London, where Pichette will be based. Kavelman will operate from the firm's Toronto-Waterloo office. INovia said it is also adding team members to its San Francisco location. Finally, iNovia said it plans to expand its market strategy to include growth equity investing.
3 min read · 11 April 2018
Oakland, California and India-based Globetouch, a provider of global connectivity services for the connected car and the internet of things, has named Alfredo de Cárdenas as CEO. Prior to this appointment, de Cárdenas was chief operating officer of Globetouch. Globetouch’s backers include Hermes Growth Partners, Impact Venture Capital, Spark Telecom Ventures and Wholesale, Verizon Ventures, CK Hutchison Holdings Limited, Digicel, NTT DoCoMo, 263 China and Qihoo 360 Technology Co. Ltd.
3 min read · 10 April 2018
Pappas Capital, which invests in the life sciences sector, has named Thomas Mathers as a partner. Previously, Mathers was CEO of CoLucid Pharmaceuticals, which is backed by Pappas Capital.
3 min read · 10 April 2018
Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Cydan, an orphan drug accelerator, has named Dr. Imran A. Babar as chief business officer. Previously, Babar worked at OrbiMed Advisors. Cydan's backers include New Enterprise Associates, Pfizer Venture Investments, Lundbeckfonden Ventures, Longitude Capital and Alexandria Venture Investments.
3 min read · 09 April 2018
Annie Kadavy, an angel investor and former partner at CRV, has joined Redpoint Ventures as a partner. At Redpoint, she will focus on early-stage consumer deals. Kadavy was most recently head of strategic operations at Uber Freight. At CRV, she sourced or led deals with ClassPass, Cratejoy, DoorDash, Laurel & Wolf and Patreon at the seed and Series A stages.
1 min read · 05 April 2018
DataCore Software, a provider of storage virtualization, storage management and storage networking solutions, has named Dave Zabrowski as CEO and Gerardo A. Dada as chief marketing officer. Previously, Zabrowski was founder and CEO of Cloud Cruiser while Dada was vice president of product marketing and strategy at SolarWinds. DataCore's backers include Insight Venture Partners.
3 min read · 05 April 2018
