Private Equity
Desjardins Business Capital régional et coopératif, the private equity and venture capital arm of Desjardins Group, announced the appointment of Sylvain Dupuis as managing vice president of its investments division. Dupuis, who joined the organization in 2010, will be responsible for all investment activity in Québec. This will include overseeing a portfolio valued at nearly $1 billion and leading an investment team of about 40 professionals. Desjardins Business Capital régional et coopératif, which manages three funds, named Luc Ménard as its chief operating officer in August.
2 min read · 09 December 2016
Paris and Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Enterome, a developer of pharmaceuticals and diagnostics based on the gut microbiome, has named Dr. Jai Patel as chief medical officer and Dr. Roger J. Garceau to its board of directors. Previously, Patel was chief medical and scientific officer at NephroGenex Inc while Garceau was CMO and executive vice president of research and development at NPS Pharmaceuticals Inc. Enterome's backers include Seventure Partners, Lundbeckfonden Ventures, Health for Life Capital and Omnes Capital.
3 min read · 09 December 2016
Parker Barrile, a serial tech operator and angel investor, has joined Norwest Venture Partners as a partner. Barrile will focus on marketplaces, fitness, fintech and mobile sectors as a venture investor on Norwest's consumer Internet investment team, according to a Medium blog post by Managing Partner Jeff Crowe. Barrile has been an adviser and an investor at various startups in the past two years, including with Medallia, Thumbtack, Doximity, NerdWallet and Procore. Before that, he held various senior product positions at LinkedIn and Prosper.
1 min read · 08 December 2016
Palo Alto, California-based Capriza, a provider of enterprise mobility for business applications, has named Neil Thomas as chief sales officer. He was the senior vice president of worldwide sales at Adaptive Insights. Capriza's backers included Andreessen Horowitz, Charles River Ventures, Harmony Partners, Tenaya Capital, Entre Capital and Vintage Investment.
2 min read · 07 December 2016
Richard Gephardt, former House Majority and Minority Leader and two-time U.S. presidential candidate, is joining the board of directors of Heal, a provider of on-demand doctor house calls. In addition to this appointment, Heal has raised $14.8 million in Series B funding from Fidelity Management and Rearch Company. Heal's investors include Tull Investment Group, Breyer Capital, HashtagOne and Slow Ventures.
3 min read · 06 December 2016
Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan has promoted Jonathan Hausman to the role of managing director and head of its new global strategic relationships department. The appointment, effective on January 1, 2017, will give Hausman responsibility for developing and cultivating mutually beneficial investment relationships around the world. Hausman, who joined Ontario Teachers' in 2004, was previously responsible for its global hedge fund portfolio. Prior to then, he was an executive director at Goldman Sachs.
3 min read · 05 December 2016
Montreal-based drug developer Therillia Development Company Inc has hired Dr. Pierre Beauparlant as chief business officer. Previously, he worked at Novartis Pharmaceuticals Canada where he was medical therapeutic head of hematology. Therillia is backed by Sanderling Ventures, an investment firm focused on new biomedical companies.
3 min read · 05 December 2016
Emergence Capital has named Doug Landis as a growth partner. Previously, he worked at Box where he served as vice president of sales productivity. And prior to that, he led corporate sales productivity at Salesforce and was a sales training manager at Google.
2 min read · 05 December 2016
Mission Therapeutics said Dec. 5 that Dr Colin Goddard was named non-executive Chairman, effective January 1st 2017. Michael Moore, Mission's Founder Chairman, will continue on the board and transition to the role of Deputy Chairman. Mission Therapeutics, of Cambridge, England, is a drug discovery and development company.
3 min read · 05 December 2016
Portag3Ventures, a fintech fund launched in October by Canadian holding company Power Corp, is led by an executive who knows a thing or two about disrupting the financial world. Adam Felesky, Portag3’s president and managing partner, spent much of his career in the exchange-traded-funds business. He likens the public-market experience of ETFs to today’s fintech startups, whose innovations reflect a new source of challenge and opportunity to traditional financial services providers.
3 min read · 02 December 2016
