Private Equity
Carlsbad, California-based Verdezyne Inc, a producer of biobased chemicals, has named David Kelsey as chief financial officer. Kelsey is the former CFO of Elevance Renewable Sciences. Verdezyne's backers included BP Ventures, DSM Venturing B.V., OVP Venture Partners, Monitor Ventures and Sime Darby.
2 min read · 26 July 2016
DFJ Growth, which is in registration to raise $500 million for its latest fund, has added David Dubick as a principal. For the past two years, Dubick has worked with early-stage technology companies at Lightspeed Venture Partners, where he was a senior associate and sourced or managed investments in CloudPassage, Docker, Dremio, Handshake, Parsable, CloudBees, Velo3D, SnapRoute, and Barefoot Networks, according to a blog post by DFJ Partner Randy Glein.
1 min read · 26 July 2016
Mark R. Templeton, the managing director of venture firm Scientific Ventures, died on July 17, 2016, in a boating accident. He was 57. Templeton was the former president and co-founder of Artisan Components.
2 min read · 22 July 2016
San Francisco-based PagerDuty, a provider of incident management solutions, has named Jennifer Tejada as CEO. Previously, she was the president and CEO of Keynote Systems. PagerDuty’s backers include Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners, Baseline Ventures and Ignition Partners.
5 min read · 21 July 2016
San Jose, California-based Robin Systems, a container-based virtualization platform software company, has added Don Listwin to its board of directors. Listwin is a former CEO of Sana Security and Openwave. Robin's backers include Clear Ventures, DN Capital, SAP's Hasso Plattner Ventures and USAA.
2 min read · 21 July 2016
Palo Alto, California-based BlueVine, a provider of financing to small businesses, has hired Eric Sager as chief revenue officer. Previously, Sager was the sales head at Square. BlueVine's backers include Lightspeed Venture Partners, 83North, Correlation Ventures, Menlo Ventures and Rakuten.
2 min read · 19 July 2016
San Diego-based iboss Cybersecurity, a provider of data breach detection solutions, has named John M. Connolly and Frank Fanzilli to its board of directors. Connolly is a former managing director and operating group head at Bain Capital Ventures. Fanzilli is a former managing director at Credit Suisse.
3 min read · 19 July 2016
Pritzker Group Venture Capital has promoted Gabe Greenbaum to partner and Peter Liu to vice president. Pritzker Group hired Greenbaum in 2012 while Liu joined the same year.
3 min read · 18 July 2016
Glenn Gow has joined Clear Ventures as a marketing partner. Previously, Gow worked at Crimson Marketing.
3 min read · 14 July 2016
Financial services tech solutions provider Fiserv Inc has named John Kim to its board of directors. Kim is president of New York Life Insurance Company. He is a senior adviser and member of the advisory committee of venture firm RRE.
2 min read · 11 July 2016
