Private Equity
Canadian exploration company Nevada Energy Metals has named Tim Fernback as chief operating officer. His work background includes the investment banking and corporate finance divisions at Western Canada-based brokerage firm Wolverton Securities and the consulting practice at Discovery Capital Corp, a British Columbia venture firm focused on financing and consulting.
3 min read · 01 September 2016
Safeguard Scientifics has named Dr. Scott A. Snyder as senior vice president, managing director and chief technology and innovation officer. Previously, Snyder worked at Mobiquity Inc where he served as president and chief strategy officer.
4 min read · 30 August 2016
Charles River Ventures made its position in the presidential elections known, and the stand couldn't be clearer: Just say no to Republican candidate Donald Trump.
1 min read · 25 August 2016
London-based C5 Capital said it named former Intel Capital Managing Director Marcos Battisti as a partner and head of its new $150 million C5 Cloud Partners fund.
1 min read · 24 August 2016
New Orleans-based venture firm Valmiki 504 LLC has hired Neil Gibbons as a venture partner to launch and run its business incubator Ceres 504. Gibbons is a chair emeritus of New Orleans startup incubator Propeller.
3 min read · 24 August 2016
Boston-based Bedrock Data, a data integration platform for businesses, has named Thor Johnson as CEO. Previously, Johnson worked at Intralinks where he was the chief marketing officer and at Eloqua where he was the chief marketer. Bedrock Data's backers include .406 Ventures.
3 min read · 24 August 2016
Mark Organ, founder and CEO of advocate marketing software provider Influitive, was today the debut speaker in a new speaker series organized by Venture for Canada and presented by BDC Capital. The BDC Canadian Scale-Up Speaker Series was hosted at Influitive's Toronto headquarters. Organ founded Influitive in 2010. Since then it has raised $50 million in venture capital, including the $38 million raised in a Series B financing in March. Organ, a serial entrepreneur, previously led Eloqua, which was acquired by Oracle Corp in 2012.
3 min read · 18 August 2016
Canadian specialty finance firm Wellington Financial has expanded into the healthcare and life sciences vertical with its hire of Jeff Chapman. Chapman, an experienced life sciences investment professional who most recently served as a senior executive at Comerica Bank, assumed the role of partner and head of healthcare and life sciences at Wellington. He will operate from the firm's Menlo Park office. Toronto-based Wellington closed its fifth innovation private debt fund at $300 million in 2015. It has since committed over $100 million to 11 venture-backed companies in Canada and the United States.
4 min read · 18 August 2016
Atlanta-based Kabbage, a financial services data and tech platform, has beefed up its personnel with several significant new hires. The firm has named Jeff Hodges as chief financial officer and Scott Askins as general counsel and secretary. Also, Richard Schafrann has been tapped to lead Kabbage's capital markets staff. Previously, Previously, Hodges was CFO of Official Payments while Askins was vice president, assistant general counsel and assistant secretary for WebMD Corp. Schafrann is a former managing director at Goldman Sachs. Kabbage's backers include Reverence Capital Partners, SoftBank Capital, Thomvest Ventures, Mohr Davidow Ventures, BlueRun Ventures and Santander InnoVentures.
4 min read · 17 August 2016
Austin, Texas-based Lifesize, a provider of audio, web and video conferencing technology, has named Bill Paape as chief financial officer. Paape was Lifesize's first CFO in 2003. He is rejoining Lifesize after working as CFO at Santé Ventures, a healthcare and life science venture firm.
2 min read · 16 August 2016
