Private Equity
Cocoon Capital, a Singapore-based venture firm, has named Martin Roll as external senior adviser. He is CEO of Martin Roll Company and has been a senior adviser to McKinsey & Company since 2015.
3 min read · 24 October 2017
Boston-based MassMutual Ventures has raised a second $100 million fund to in invest in early-stage and growth companies in the insurance, benefits, financial services, enterprise software and cyber security sectors. With the new funding, provided by parent company Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, the firm will aim to invest in 20 to 25 companies in North America, Europe and Israel. MassMutual Ventures has also added Marybeth Egan as an associate. Egan was previously an associate at KKR & Co.
1 min read · 24 October 2017
General Electric has named Sue Siegel as chief innovation officer. Her appointment becomes effective immediately. Currently, Siegel is the CEO of GE Ventures, a role she will continue in addition to her new responsibilities.
2 min read · 23 October 2017
Canadian venture capital firm iNovia Capital has hired Magaly Charbonneau as a principal. Charbonneau, an entrepreneur and investor with about 25 years of experience, joins iNovia from Intel Corp, where she led business development strategy for True Key Worldwide and operations for PasswordBox, a password security platform she invested in and served as COO. (PasswordBox was bought by Intel in 2014.) Between 2009 and 2016, she was also a member of Anges Québec's angel investment network. Charbonneau will work with iNovia's investment team and portfolio companies from the firm's headquarters in Montréal.
5 min read · 23 October 2017
Union Square Ventures has added Rebecca Kaden as a general partner. Kaden joins New York-based USV from Maveron in Seattle, where she was also a general partner. Kaden posted in a USV blog that she is excited to return to her hometown of New York and the local entrepreneurial ecosystem. "Coming home is fun for many reasons, but coming home to such a hotbed of innovation and dreamers, particularly in the categories that excite me the most, is simply awesome," she wrote in her blog post.
1 min read · 21 October 2017
Redwood Shores, California-based Reltio, an enterprise data-driven applications and modern data management platform as a service company, has appointed Renee Hollinger as chief human resources officer. Previously, Hollinger worked at IronSource where she was executive vice president for global human resources. Reltio is backed by New Enterprise Associates, Sapphire Ventures, Crosslink Capital and .406 Ventures.
4 min read · 18 October 2017
Comcast Ventures has named Gil Beyda as a managing director and promoted Daniel Gulati to partner. Previously, Beyda was a managing partner at Genacast Ventures while Gulati joined the firm in 2014.
2 min read · 18 October 2017
Prescient said Oct. 17 that Sunil Ghatnekar was named CFO. Ghatnekar is a longtime executive with The Coca-Cola Co.
5 min read · 18 October 2017
Los Angeles-based Bridg, a marketing software company for the restaurant industry, has appointed Jayson Tipp as an industry principal. Tipp is the former chief development officer and senior vice president of technology at Papa Murphy's International LLC. Bridg's backers include March Capital Partners, Morpheus Ventures, NextEquity Partners and Visa.
3 min read · 17 October 2017
San Antonio, Texas-based Silverback, an oil and gas exploration company, has hired Matthew Alley as chief financial officer. Previously, Alley worked at Palomar Natural Resources where he was CFO and president of finance. Silverback is backed by EnCap Investments LP.
2 min read · 17 October 2017
