Private Equity
Mustbin, a Boston-based app for organizing, storing and sharing vital personal information, has promoted Satyender Mahajan to CEO from chief technology officer. The firm's backers include DAG Ventures, General Catalyst, Mohr Davidow Ventures and Northgate Capital.
2 min read · 26 August 2014
Moogsoft has named Rob Markovich as chief marketing officer. Previously, Markovich worked at VSS Monitoring where he served as a senior vice president. Based in San Francisco, Moogsoft provides collaborative situation management for web-scale IT operations. Its backers include Wing Venture Capital and Redpoint Ventures.
3 min read · 26 August 2014
Mike Dauber, a principal at Battery Ventures, has joined Amplify Partners as general partner, where he will focus on enterprise tech.
1 min read · 25 August 2014
Flagship Ventures has hired Dr. Robert Berendes as a venture partner. Dr. Berendes is a co-owner and partner at a-connect, a Swiss global consulting firm.
3 min read · 25 August 2014
Institutional Venture Partners has added Bryan Hsu as an associate. He will focus on later-stage investments across in enterprise software, Internet and digital media, and mobile. Hsu was previously with Qatalyst Partners in an Francisco.
2 min read · 22 August 2014
John Ruffolo, CEO of OMERS Ventures, the venture investment arm of the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System, has been selected for the top spot of Canadian Business magazine's 50 most powerful business people. The magazine said that Ruffolo's launch of OMERS Ventures in 2011 has provided "a fix to Canada’s chronic lack of VC," which is something that should matter "as much to Bay Street as it does to entrepreneurs."
2 min read · 21 August 2014
Flash storage maker Skyera has appointed Dado Banatao to its board of directors. Banatao is a managing partner at Tallwood Venture Capital.
2 min read · 21 August 2014
GridGain has named Sonja Hoel Perkins to its advisory board. Currently, Perkins is a managing director at Menlo Ventures. Headquartered in Foster City, Calif., GridGain is an in-memory computing platform.
2 min read · 21 August 2014
Kate Mitchell, co-founder and partner of Scale Venture Partners, has rejoined NVCA's board as a director. Previously, Mitchell joined the board as a director in 2007 and then later served as a chairman from 2010 to 2011. Her current term will expire in 2016. Mitchell's appointment comes after Silver Lake Kraftwerk's Adam Grosser's resignation from the board.
3 min read · 20 August 2014
Despite the lip service Silicon Valley has given about the need to recruit more women venture capitalists, at senior levels the industry’s gender balance hasn’t budged, even as other industries with poor gender diversity show improvements.
7 min read · 20 August 2014
