Private Equity
Longtime venture capitalist and biotech entrepreneur Lawrence Bock, who co-founded Avalon Ventures in 1988, passed away at his home on July 6 after battling pancreatic cancer. He was 56. Bock, born Sept. 21, 1959, in Brooklyn, New York, founded joined Fairfield Venture Partners in 1985 after doing research at Genentech in infectious diseases and earning an MBA from UCLA. He then helped launched Avalon and then moved to CW Group in 1997. He most recently was serving as a special limited partner at Lux Capital.
1 min read · 11 July 2016
Android co-founder Rich Miner is leaving his position as general partner at Google Ventures to launch an education-focused project within the search giant, Fortune's Dan Primack reported. Miner has been with Google Ventures since 2009.
1 min read · 07 July 2016
King of Prussia, Pennsylvania-based Trice Medical, which is focused on improving orthopedic diagnostics, has appointed Mark Foster as its chief commercialization officer and vice president of worldwide sales. Previously, Foster worked at Smith & Nephew. Trice Medical is backed by HealthQuest Capital, Safeguard Scientifics and BioStar Ventures.
2 min read · 07 July 2016
Isomer Capital has appointed Catherine Dupéré as a principal to its London-based staff. Previously, Dupéré worked at BDC Capital, the investment arm of Business Development of Canada.
3 min read · 06 July 2016
University Ventures has named Troy Williams as a managing director and Prateek Aneja as vice president. The firm has also promoted Aanand Radia to managing director. Recently, Williams was CEO of Macmillan Enterprise Solutions while Aneja worked at Wells Fargo Securities. And, previously, Radia led University Ventures' investments in student financing.
3 min read · 06 July 2016
Call Andy McLoughlin a "Brexpert." The British-born partner at SoftTech VC has been in high demand since the U.K. voted to exit the European Union.
2 min read · 05 July 2016
Healthcare and tech investor Canaan Partners announced the appointment of Richard Boyle as partner. He was previously chief executive and chairman of the online commercial real estate marketplace LoopNet, which CoStar Group acquired for about $900 million in 2012. Boyle was formerly an operating partner at Khosla Ventures and was an angel investor before that.
1 min read · 01 July 2016
Intel Capital has appointed four new managing directors as part of a restructuring to streamline its investment process and give startups more access to company business units, according to a newsletter from the firm.
1 min read · 29 June 2016
Princeton, New Jersey-based Ameri Holdings Inc, a SAP-based strategy consulting firm, has added Venkatraman Balakrishnan to its board of directors. Balakrishnan is the founder and chairman of Exfinity Venture Partners, a venture fund focused on tech startups. He is also the former chief financial officer at Infosys Ltd.
2 min read · 29 June 2016
Berkshire Group has appointed Justin Brown as vice president of venture investments. Previously, Brown worked at M&T Bank where he served as vice president of commercial real estate banking.
2 min read · 29 June 2016
