Private Equity
1 min read · 12 May 2010
Craig Cooper has stepped down as head of Saban Ventures, peHUB has learned. He will continue to work with the group in an advisory role, but also will pursue unrelated ventures. For example, Cooper's LinkedIn profile lists his current role a managing partner of something called Cooper Capital Partners (unclear if it's a real firm, or just a personal investment vehicle). Cooper is a veteran venture capitalist and entrepreneur, having been a venture partner with VantagePoint Venture Partners, a partner with Softbank Capital and co-founder of Boost Mobile. In early 2008 he was recruited by Haim Saban, the Israeli media mogul whose companies produced such things as Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and the theme music to Inspector Gadget. Saban already had a Los Angeles-based investment firm focused on acquisitions and later-stage deals, but asked Cooper to help launch an early-stage practice focused on digital media. Saban also hired Blueprint Ventures alum Richard Yen as a San Francisco-based director.
2 min read · 11 May 2010
Chrysalis Ventures has added five new staffers: Alan Ying as a ventire partner, Jill Force as chief operating officer, Derek Fricke as an analyst, Doug Cobb as an entrepreneur-in-residence and Greg Foster as an entrepreneur-in-residence. The first four will be based in the firm's Louisville office, while Foster will work out of Atlanta.
4 min read · 11 May 2010
Doug Fambrough has stepped down as a general partner with Oxford Bioscience Partners, in order to become CEO of Oxford portfolio company Dicerna Pharmaceuticals Inc. He will remain as a venture partner with Oxford. Dicerna is a Cambridge, Mass.-based RNA interference company that has raised $21.4 million in VC funding from Oxford, Abingworth Management and Skyline Ventures. He tells peHUB that Dicerna will likely seek between $25 million and $30 million in new VC funding during the second half of this year.
4 min read · 07 May 2010
Todd MacLean has joined Accel Partners, with a focus on growth equity investments in the IT space. He previously was a director with Bain Capital Ventures and, before that, was a vice president with Summit Partners.
1 min read · 07 May 2010
Kate Mitchell, a managing partner of Scale Venture Partners, has been elected chair of the National Venture Capital Association's board of directors. She succeeds Terry McGuire of Polaris Venture Partners. Also joining the board in director capacities are Bruce Evans of Summit Partners, Norm Fogelsong of Institutional Venture Partners, Robert Nelsen of ARCH Venture Partners, Scott Sandell of New Enterprise Associates and Theresia Gouw Ranzetta of Accel Partners.
4 min read · 05 May 2010
Robert Chiste has joined El Dorado Ventures as an executive-in-residence, with a focus on the cleantech space. He is the former chairman, president and CEO of Comverge (Nasdaq: COMV), a provider of energy efficiency and demand management solutions for the utility, commercial and industrial markets.
2 min read · 03 May 2010
Janice Bourque has joined Hercules Technology Growth Capital as a Boston-based managing director in the firm's life sciences group. She previously was an advisor to Commons Capital, and helped work on a joint venture between Commons and Oxford Bioscience Partners.
3 min read · 26 April 2010
Alex Laats has joined Commonwealth Capital Ventures as a general partner. He is a former Commonwealth venture partner who most recently was with BBN Technologies, a Commonwealth portfolio company acquired last year by Raytheon.
3 min read · 26 April 2010
1 min read · 23 April 2010
