Private Equity
Battery Ventures has hired Russell Fleischer as a partner. Previously, Fleischer worked at HighJump Software where he served as chief executive.
2 min read · 16 October 2014
Keek Inc (TSX-V: KEK), a mobile video social network, has appointed David Birnbaum to its board of directors. Birnbaum is the president of Broadway Video Ventures, the corporate strategy, venture capital investment and acquisition arm of U.S.-based Broadway Video Entertainment Inc. He is also a former investment professional at British private equity firm Apax Partners. Update: Based in Toronto, Keek has been backed by a number of private equity and venture capital firms since 2011.
3 min read · 16 October 2014
San Francisco-based Voxer, a provider of push-to-talk and multimedia messaging, has hired Paul Reilly as vice president of engineering. Previously, Reilly worked at Memeo where he served as vice president of engineering. Its backers include Institutional Venture Partners, Intel Capital, SV Angel and CrunchFund.
2 min read · 14 October 2014
Oakland-based Illuminate Ventures, which invests in early-stage cloud and mobile startups, announced that Ben Bayat has joined the firm as a senior associate. Bayat was previously head of west coast sales for IBM’s networking clients. In addition, Illuminate also added to its list of more than 40 advisors by naming Leyla Seka, senior vice president and GM of Desk.com at Salesforce, and Gerard Brossard, senior vice president and global head of business planning and operations for Visa, as the newest members of its Business Advisory Council.
3 min read · 14 October 2014
Ron Sege, chairman and CEO of U.S.-based Echelon Corp (Nasdaq: ELON), has been appointed to the advisory board of Canadian venture capital firm McRock Capital. In addition to his current leadership at Echelon, Sege previously served as a senior executive at a number of technology businesses, including 3Com Corp. Based in Toronto, McRock invests in companies that are targeting industrial markets looking to maximize efficiency by making their machines, equipment and devices run more intelligently. Last December, the firm raised $50 million in the initial close of McRock iNFund LP.
3 min read · 14 October 2014
Chicago-based venture firm Jump Capital has hired Dr. Garrett Vygantas to head the firm's new San Francisco office and run its healthcare practice. He has also been named as a partner at Jump Capital. Dr. Vygantas was the founding CEO of NewBridge Pharmaceuticals.
2 min read · 14 October 2014
Delphinus Medical Technologies, which is backed by Arboretum Ventures and Beringea, has hired Chris Sanders as vice president of engineering. Previously, Sanders worked at Toshiba Medical Research Institute, USA, where he served as director of ultrasound research and development. Delphinus is maker of SoftVue, a whole breast ultrasound system.
3 min read · 14 October 2014
Deliv has hired Ingrid Bekkers as vice president of marketing. Previously, she was a marketing executive at Diageo and Constellation Brands. Headquartered in Menlo Park, Calif., Deliv is a provider of same-day delivery services. Its backers include Upfront Ventures and RPM Ventures.
2 min read · 09 October 2014
Dr. George S. Reichenbach, a founding partner at Braemar Energy Ventures, died on October 6. He was 85. In addition to his work at Braemar Energy Ventures, Dr. Reichenbach was an initial partner at Advent International where he oversaw the firm's investments in energy technology. And prior to that, he worked at Norton Company where he managed two divisions.
2 min read · 09 October 2014
New Enterprise Associates has hired Dr. Carol Gallagher as a partner at its Menlo Park office. Previously, she was the chairman of eFFECTOR Therapeutics, a director at Aragon Pharmaceuticals (which was bought by Johnson & Johnson in 2013) and a venture partner with Frazier Healthcare.
3 min read · 09 October 2014
