Private Equity
Dayna Grayson, a principal with North Bridge Venture Partners, reportedly has been named acting CEO of Viximo, a Cambridge, Mass.-based provider of virtual goods solutions for social networks, online dating and social gaming sites. Viximo is a portfolio company of both North Bridge and Sigma Partners. www.viximo.com
1 min read · 30 April 2009
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about how Highway 12 Ventures in Boise, Idaho, joined the information superhighway and launched a blog on its website. At the time, Highway 12 GP Mark Solon credited Entrepreneur-in-Residence Tac Anderson (shown in the picturesque photo) for pushing the firm to start blogging. Anderson has led social media activities at Hewlett-Packard, and he is the founder of TechBoise, a website devoted to tracking the tech life in the capital city of the Gem State.
1 min read · 30 April 2009
1 min read · 28 April 2009
Sujit Banerjee has joined Element Partners, a growth equity firm focused o the cleantech space, as an operating partner. He previously was a partner with BlueRun Ventures, where he will continue to serve as an operating partner for mobile and consumer investments. While with BlueRun, Banerjee opened an India office and launched the firm's cleantech practice.
2 min read · 27 April 2009
Sebastian Thrun has joined Charles River Ventures as a senior advisor. He is a professor of computer science and electrical engineering at Stanford University, and also serves as a principal engineer at Google (where he helped create Google StreetView).
3 min read · 27 April 2009
Joanna Rees -- whose San Francisco-based firm, VSP Capital, famously imploded several years ago -- was never a shrinking violet, and apparently, she still craves the spotlight. After what she considered unfair treatment by the media as VSP was crumbling -- she invited her married boyfriend into the firm as a partner without disclosing the relationship to VSP's other partners; three of VSP's general partners subsequently resigned; and the firm's LPs voted to pull the plug on its third and last fund -- she tells VentureBeat's Matt Marshall that she now has her eye on the SF mayor’s office. If Rees is serious about running for mayor of San Francisco, I say: good luck. But my suspicion is that Rees's sit-down with Marshall, who remarks that Rees's career "shows remarkable persistence and grit," is largely a publicity stunt intended to clear her name in Silicon Valley.
2 min read · 24 April 2009
Bruce McWilliams has joined U.S. Venture Partners as an executive-in-residence. He is the former CEO of miniaturization technology developer Tessera Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq: TSRA).
2 min read · 22 April 2009
1 min read · 22 April 2009
John Milad has joined NGBI Ventures, a London-based venture firm focused on the med-tech sector. He previously was with Insight Capital & Advisory.
2 min read · 20 April 2009
Bridget Rauvola has joined Morgenthaler as a partner in charge of investor relations. She had spent the past 16 years with Frazier Healthcare Ventures as senior vice president of marketing and investor relations. She is based in Boulder, Colorado.
1 min read · 20 April 2009
