Private Equity
Kartik Raghavan and Sean Flynn have joined Shasta Ventures as an entrepreneur-in-resident and senior associate, respectively. Raghavan previously was a venture partner with Trilogy Equity Partners, before which he spent ten years with Microsoft. Flynn previously worked in various roles with Yahoo, including as senior director of business development and business operations for the company’s communication and community products.
2 min read · 10 December 2008
TVM Capital has promoted Christoph Schröder and Hui Hsing Ma to general partner. Both joins the firm in 2004 as venture partners, and focus on life sciences opportunities.
2 min read · 10 December 2008
2 min read · 09 December 2008
Richard Kent has joined Intersouth Partners as a venture partner focused on the pharmaceutical market. He previously was president and CEO of Serenex Inc., an Intersouth portfolio company sold to Pfizer in April.
3 min read · 09 December 2008
Back in 2006, a number of ex-Googlers became full-time investors, including angels Aydin Senkut, Georges Harik and Paul Buchheit (founder of FriendFeed). It would be overstating things to say that the tide has now turned, but at least one former VC, Karim Faris, has joined Google to focus on investments and acquisitions. Faris spent the last year and a half working independently to help startups build their teams and raise financing, but for four years before that was a principal at Atlas Ventures in Boston, where he sat on the boards of Atlas-backed Lilliputian Systems, a Wilmington, Mass., a portable fuel cell technology startup, and CLK Design Automation in Littleton, Mass., which makes timing and power analysis tools used in microprocessor design (and that continues to list Faris as a board member, and
1 min read · 09 December 2008
SV Life Sciences has hired three venture partners: Sarah Bodary, formerly with Genentech, to focus on biotech; Gary Velasquez, former president and CEO of SV portfolio company Synarc, to focus on healthcare services; and Kevin Barrett, a founding partner of Commonwealth Health Partners, to focus on healthcare services.
4 min read · 08 December 2008
OVP Venture Partners is promoting Carl Weissman from a venture partner to a managing director. He originally joined the firm in February 2007 to focus on digital biology, and will continue to serve as president and CEO of the Accelerator program.
2 min read · 08 December 2008
1 min read · 03 December 2008
SV Life Sciences has promoted David Guyer to partner. He originally joined the firm in 2006 as a venture partner, and previously was co-founder and CEO of Eyetech Pharmaceuticals.
3 min read · 02 December 2008
Updated peHUB has learned that former RealNetworks executive Jeff Schrock has joined Intel Capital, as a Seattle-based investment director focused on the digital home sector. He had spent the past ten months as a venture partner with early-stage firm Monster Venture Partners, and currently sits on the board of Intel Capital portfolio company Transpera. Schrock is the former VP of corporate development with RealNetworks, where he helped oversee such transactions as the $350 million acquisition of WiderThan and the $600 million joint venture between MTV Networks and Rhapsody. Before that, he worked in corp dev for Yahoo, and co-founded and ran a VC-backed company called Activate (bought by CMGI in 1999 for $100m).
1 min read · 01 December 2008
