Private Equity
Ron Conway's success with a payroll tax initiative demonstrates a profound transformation playing out in San Francisco's business corridors and its halls of power. As startups blossom, attracting a wave of entrepreneurs and investment dollars, the tech industry is wielding newfound clout in local politics.
7 min read · 29 October 2012
Thomson Reuters' Venture Alpha 2012 event Thursday in San Francisco, we heard from investing and entrepreneurial legends including Benchmark GP Bill Gurley, DCM founder Dixon Doll and AOL founder Steve Case. Visiting the InterContinental Mark Hopkins Hotel on Nob Hill, VCs, entrepreneurs and dealmakers gathered for a day-long series of talks and meetings on the state and future of the venture capital industry.
1 min read · 19 October 2012
Relay Technology Management, a Cambridge, Mass.-based business intelligence software company, has named Marc Krellenstein as CTO. Krellenstein was previous the founder of Lucid Imagination and the former CTO and VP of search and discovery at Elsevier.
2 min read · 11 October 2012
500 Startups said it has added two venture partners. Pankaj Jain will be stationed in India and Shai Goldman, in New York City, according to the firm's Web site. Goldman was most recently with Silicon Valley Bank and will invest in Boston as well as New York. Jain was previously consulting for the TLabs accelerator in New Delhi.
1 min read · 04 October 2012
Amy Rees Anderson, former CEO of MediConnect Global, has launched REES Capital, a firm that provides consulting services and angel capital investments to start-up and high-growth companies. Former MediConnect executive vice president of business development Adam Casto and former MediConnect chief operating officer Shani Allsop will join Anderson as partners at REES Capital.
4 min read · 04 October 2012
BioSavita, a Plymouth, Michigan company that produces "biosimilar medicines" for patients in partnership with biopharmaceutical companies, has appointed James Kuo as chairman and CEO. Kuo was most recently chair and CEO of Adeona Pharmaceuticals, a publicly traded Michigan biotech company.
2 min read · 28 September 2012
(Reuters) - One of Silicon Valley's hottest venture capital firms, Andreessen Horowitz, is bringing a little more government expertise to its operations after hiring former Washington, D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty. Fenty, who served as mayor from 2007-2011, is joining Andreessen as a part-time special advisor, he and the firm said.
2 min read · 26 September 2012
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