Private Equity
Storm Ventures has added Paul Willard as a partner, according to a Medium blog post from C0-Founder and Managing Director Ryan Floyd. Willard most recently was one of two partners of Subtraction Capital, a $20 million fund he launched with Jason Portnoy in 2013. Before Subtraction, Willard was CMO of health records management company Practice Fusion and software developer Atlassian.
1 min read · 01 February 2018
SiFive, a provider of commercial RISC-V processor IP, has named Shafy Eltoukhy as vice president of operations. Previously, Eltoukhy worked as vice president and business unit manager for the analog mixed signal division at Microsemi. SiFive is backed by Sutter Hill Ventures, Spark Capital and Osage University Partners.
3 min read · 30 January 2018
UK-based STORM Therapeutics, a developer of small molecule inhibitors of RNA-modifying enzymes to treat cancer, has named Thomas Cech as a scientific adviser. Cech, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1989, is a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at University of Colorado, Boulder and a director of the University of Colorado BioFrontiers Institute. STORM is backed by Cambridge Innovation Capital, Merck Ventures, Pfizer Ventures, Touchstone Innovations and Taiho Ventures LLC.
3 min read · 29 January 2018
Thayer Ventures Managing Director Mark Farrell has been chosen to serve as the interim mayor of the city of San Francisco until the next election scheduled for June. Farrell is a member of the city’s board of supervisors. He was voted into the role of caretaker mayor on January 23, 2018 when the board voted down its president London Breed, who had become acting mayor after Ed Lee’s sudden death in December. Breed is running for mayor in the June election, while Farrell is not.
1 min read · 24 January 2018
San Francisco-based Peerspace, a community marketplace for finding the perfect space for any gathering, has named Eric Shoup, a former executive at Ancestry.com and eBay, as CEO. Also, the firm has appointed Gene Domecus as chief financial officer. Domecus was CFO for Macys.com. And, Rony Chammas, the founder of Peerspace, will become chairman and chief product officer. Peerspace's backers include Foundation Capital, Structure Capital, Carthona Capital and 31VENTURES.
3 min read · 24 January 2018
Emeryville, California-based Gritstone Oncology, a personalized cancer immunotherapy company, has named Jean-Marc Bellemin as executive vice president of finance and chief financial officer. His appointment became effective January 5, 2018. Previously, Bellemin worked at Actelion Pharmaceuticals USA where he served as senior vice president and chief financial officer. Gritstone Oncology's backers include Versant Ventures, The Column Group, Clarus Funds, Frazier Healthcare Partners, RedMile, Casdin Capital, Lilly Asia Ventures, Trinitas Capital, GV, Alexandria Venture Investments and Bay City Capital.
3 min read · 23 January 2018
Austin, Texas-based Next Coast Ventures has added Jeff Browning, an experienced talent acquisition pro, as a venture partner. The firm said Browning will focus on helping portfolio companies with organizational design, talent acquisition and executive development.
1 min read · 23 January 2018
Sequoia Capital distanced itself from comments made by Partner Michael Moritz after a Moritz opinion piece in the Financial Times chided Silicon Valley workers for being less driven than those in China.
1 min read · 22 January 2018
Osage University Partners has promoted Claudia Dunnous to chief financial officer and Beth Grafstrom to vice president of finance. Dunnous first joined the venture firm that invests in university startups in 2006 while Grafstrom came on board in 2015. Also, OUP made two additional promotions: Dr. Stephanie Stehman is now principal and Dr. David Dorsey has become a senior associate.
2 min read · 22 January 2018
Law firm Perkins Coie has appointed Matt Kirmayer as a partner in the emerging companies and venture capital practice. Previously, Kirmayer worked at Lowenstein Sandler LLP in the Palo Alto, California office where he was a member of the tech group.
3 min read · 22 January 2018
