Private Equity
TM3 Therapeutics, a developer of treatments for rare neurodegenerative and metabolic disorders, has named Dr. Peter Van Vlasselaer as chairman of its board of directors. Currently, he is the CEO of ARMO Biosciences. TM3's backers include Sofinnova Partners and INKEF Capital.
3 min read · 29 November 2017
Sofinnova Partners, a European life sciences venture firm, has appointed Maina Bhaman as a partner. Previously, she worked at Touchstone Innovations where she was director of healthcare investment.
2 min read · 29 November 2017
General Catalyst announced it has hired Kyle Doherty as managing director in its San Francisco office. The firm said Doherty will focus on late-stage investments in financial services, e-commerce, deep tech and healthcare IT. Doherty was previously head of US private investments at Coatue Management. Before that, he was a principal at Morgenthaler Ventures.
1 min read · 28 November 2017
Madrid-based MedLumics, a medical device company, has named James Greene as CEO and Giovanni Leo to its board of directors. Previously, Greene worked at Seroba Lifesciences, a Dublin-based venture firm where he was a partner while Leo was vice president of research and development for St. Jude Medical. MedLumics' backers include Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners, Seroba Lifesciences, Innogest, Ysios and Caixa.
4 min read · 28 November 2017
Cloudvirga, a developer of intelligent mortgage point-of-sale platforms, has named Steve DeSantis as its new chief financial officer. Previously, DeSantis was CFO for ShiftPixy. Cloudvirga's backers include Dallas Capital, Upfront Ventures and Tribeca Angels.
2 min read · 22 November 2017
M2P Consulting, an international strategy and transformation consultancy, has named Dr. Christoph Lymbersky as a partner. In his role, Lymbersky will be responsible for the firm's venture and capital partners business unit. Previously, Lymbersky was managing director of the venture fund T-Venture.
2 min read · 21 November 2017
Munich-based Target Partners, a venture firm, has named Johannes Landgraf as an analyst. In his role, Landgraf will focus on research covering various industries and new technologies. He will also be involved in due diligence for evaluating startups.
2 min read · 21 November 2017
Fantasy sports company FanDuel has appointed Matt King as its new CEO, effective immediately. King, a former chief financial officer at FanDuel and ex-director at KKR, is succeeding Nigel Eccles, who is leaving the company and quitting the board of directors to focus on his next venture. FanDuel's backers include KKR, Google Capital, Time Warner/Turner Sports, Shamrock Capital, NBC Sports Ventures, Comcast Ventures, Pentech Ventures, Piton Capital and Bullpen Capital.
3 min read · 20 November 2017
WorldQuant Ventures has named Mark Danchak as a managing director. Previously, Danchak worked at Carbon6 Ventures where he was a partner.
2 min read · 20 November 2017
Menlo Park, California-based Amplify Partners has hired Sarah Catanzaro as a principal. Catanzaro was previously a data partner at Canvas Ventures, which she joined in mid-2016. Prior to joining the firm, she was head of data at Mattermark. She said she left Canvas after a year-and-a-half to focus more on her passions of machine intelligence and enterprise infrastructure, specialized sectors that are more in line with what Amplify focuses on.
1 min read · 18 November 2017
