Private Equity
Silicon Valley-based SiFive, a provider of commercial RISC-V processor IP, has named Sunil Shenoy as vice president of hardware engineering. Previously, Shenoy worked at Intel. SiFive is backed by Sutter Hill Ventures, Spark Capital and Osage University Partners.
2 min read · 22 January 2018
San Diego-based Zebit Inc, a provider of ecommerce credit solutions, has named Steve Lapin as chief financial officer. Previously, he was head of capital markets at LendUp. Zebit's investors included Crosslink Capital, Wildcat Venture Partners, Leapfrog Ventures and Correlation Ventures.
2 min read · 22 January 2018
Menlo Park, California-based early-stage investor Amplify Partners named Ted Stinson a venture partner. Stinson joined the firm in late 2016 as an executive-in-residence. Before that, he held various executive positions at as Symantec, Veritas, PernixData, Quantum and tCell.
1 min read · 19 January 2018
March Capital has promoted Jed Leidheiser to vice president, according to a spokesperson for the Santa Monica, California-based venture firm. Prior to joining March Capital, Leidheiser worked at Work-Bench Ventures. Earlier he was a senior manager at Accenture and long-term consultant for Goldman Sachs.
1 min read · 19 January 2018
The Foundry Group released its Manifesto on Board Meetings, a video aimed at setting record straight on "bored" meetings.
1 min read · 18 January 2018
Palo Alto, California-based Sapphire Ventures announced it has promoted Anders Ranum, Kevin Diestel and Rajeev Dham each to partner, and Winter Mead to principal.
1 min read · 18 January 2018
Monique Woodard, the first first African-American venture partner on the staff at 500 Startups, announced she is leaving the firm. Woodard joined 500 Startups less than two years ago when it announced it would raise a fund to invest in startups headed by black and Latino entrepreneurs.
1 min read · 18 January 2018
Brian Thorne has joined New York-based growth equity and venture firm Silas Capital as a partner ahead of a new fund raise this year, according to a press release. The firm invests in consumer brands, and is led by Carter Weiss and Frank Lin.
1 min read · 18 January 2018
Trident Capital Cybersecurity has promoted Will Lin to principal.
1 min read · 17 January 2018
Taylor Greene has been named a partner at the Collaborative Fund, according to a blog post and his LinkedIn profile.
1 min read · 16 January 2018
