Private Equity
VideoAmp, an integrated TV operating system for advertising, has named Tom Schmitt as chief financial officer. Schmitt is the former chief operating officer and chief financial officer at FreeWheel.TV. VideoAmp is backed by Mediaocean, RTL Group, GoAhead Ventures, StartUp Capital Ventures, Anthem Venture Partners, Wavemaker Partners and Simon Equity Partners.
4 min read · 07 September 2017
Battery Ventures announced it has promoted seven team members in its various offices and industry sectors. Boston-based Zack Smotherman, who has been at the firm since 2013 and focuses on transactions in industrial technology, was named principal. Roland Anderson, Sabrina Chiasson and Satoshi Harris-Koizumi, all based in Boston, were each promoted to vice president. Three other team members were promoted associate: Brandon Gleklen and Dominic Kallas of Boston, and Adi Dangot Zukovsky of Herzliya, Israel.
1 min read · 07 September 2017
Menlo Park, California-based late-stage investor IVP announced that Kelly O’Kane, Parsa Saljoughian, Chloe Breider and Jason Kong have joined the firm. O’Kane is returning to IVP as its first vice president of business development. Saljoughian is returning to IVP as a vice president on the investment team. The two were previously senior associates at the firm. Breider and Kong join IVP from Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, respectively.
1 min read · 06 September 2017
Early-stage venture firm ff Venture Capital has hired Kathryn Hume as a venture partner to advise portfolio companies and teams, drawing on her business background in artificial intelligence and machine learning.
1 min read · 31 August 2017
Chicago and New York-based Outcome Health, a provider of health intelligence that improves patient outcomes, has named Nandini Ramani as chief engineering officer. Previously, Ramani worked at Twitter. Outcome Health's backers include Goldman Sachs Investment Partners, CapitalG, Leerink Transformation Partners, Pritzker Group Venture Capital and Balyansy Asset Management.
2 min read · 28 August 2017
Berlin-based EBS Technologies, a medical device company that treats visual field loss, has appointed Karl Schweitzer as CEO. Previously, he worked at Medtronic. EBS Technologies' backers include Earlybird and Norgine Ventures.
3 min read · 28 August 2017
Chicago-based Snapsheet, a provider of virtual claims software for the personal and commercial insurance sector, has promoted Dan Colomb to chief technology officer. Previously, Colomb, who joined the company in 2014, was vice president of engineering. Snapsheet's backers include F-Prime Capital, IA Capital Group, Tola Capital, Liberty Mutual Strategic Ventures and Intact Ventures Inc.
2 min read · 23 August 2017
Geoff Lewis, a partner at Founders Fund, is leaving the San Francisco-based venture firm to start his own fund, sources told Bloomberg News. According to the news outlet, Lewis is planning on raising more than $100 million for the new fund. Founders Firm will reportedly be the anchor investor for the fund, said one of the sources to Bloomberg. Among the highlights of Lewis' tenure at Founders Fund is his leading the firm's investment in ride-sharing company Lyft in 2013. And, in 2015, he also led Founders' investment in a $75 million Series B funding round for Privateer, the Seattle-based private equity firm focused exclusively on the legal cannabis sector. The latter transaction was a pivotal milestone for this emerging industry as it marked the first time a mainstream, high-profile venture firm made a significant investment in it.
1 min read · 22 August 2017
South San Francisco-based Blade Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company that treats fibrotic disease, has appointed Dr. Maria E. Fuentes as executive vice president of research. Previously, she was group director of fibrosis discovery biology at Bristol-Myers Squibb. Blade's backers include MPM Capital, Deerfield, Osage Partners, as well as the venture funds of Pfizer, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Novartis.
3 min read · 21 August 2017
California state Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson is to introduce legislation aimed at strengthening legal protections for entrepreneurs facing sexual harassment from venture investors, according to a news report.
1 min read · 18 August 2017
