Private Equity
Illuminate Ventures has appointed Jim Dai as a venture partner. Dai is a former chief technology officer of Coupang and was the founder and CEO of Calm Sea Inc, a portfolio company of Illuminate Ventures. Also, the early-stage venture firm has added Caretha Coleman, Earl Fry and Donna Petkanics to its business advisory council.
4 min read · 31 January 2017
Target Partners has hired Dominik Tobschall as an associate. Tobschall was the founder of fruux GmbH, a venture capital-funded software company.
2 min read · 31 January 2017
Tel Aviv-based AnyClip, a provider of video personalization and monetization solutions, has hired Jonathan Durden as an adviser. Durden is the co-founder of media agency PHD, which was acquired by Omnicom in 2003. AnyClip's backers include Jerusalem Venture Partners and Millhouse Capital.
3 min read · 30 January 2017
Salt Lake City-based Venafi, a cyber security company, has appointed Elizabeth Ireland as chief marketing officer. Previously, Ireland worked at Tripwire where she served as vice president of marketing and business development. Venafi's backers include Foundation Capital, Intel Capital, Origin Partners, Pelion Venture Partners, QuestMark Partners and Silver Lake Partners.
2 min read · 30 January 2017
MPM Capital-backed Harpoon Therapeutics Inc, which is developing multiple T-cell recruiting platforms to treat cancer patients, has named William E. Picht Jr. as chief financial officer. Previously, Picht was CFO at Pearl Therapeutics.
3 min read · 26 January 2017
Third Rock Ventures LLC has appointed Sarah Larson as a partner and chief human resources officer. Previously, Larson worked at Foundation Medicine where she was senior vice president of human resources.
3 min read · 26 January 2017
San Francisco-based ForgeRock, a open platform provider of digital identity management solutions, has named David DeWalt as vice chairman of its board of directors. DeWalt is the executive chairman of FireEye. ForgeRock is backed by Accel Partners, Foundation Capital and Meritech Capital.
3 min read · 26 January 2017
Intelligence machines startup Kindred Systems Inc has named Jim Liefer as chief operating officer. Previously, Liefer was One Kings Lane’s COO. Kindred's backers included Eclipse, GV, Data Collective, First Round Capital, AME Cloud Ventures, 11.2 Capital, Bold Capital Partners, Innovation Endeavors and Bloomberg Beta.
2 min read · 25 January 2017
Energy Impact Partners has named Don Wood as a venture partner and West Coast adviser. Currently, Wood is a venture partner at DFJ.
2 min read · 25 January 2017
Cowboy Ventures has added Ted Wang as an investment partner, according to a blog post.
1 min read · 25 January 2017
