Private Equity
Austin, Texas-based Next Ventures, a venture firm focused on sports, fitness, nutrition, and wellness markets, has named Melanie Strong as a managing partner. Previously, Strong was a member of the firm's advisory board. Next Ventures was founded by Lance Armstrong and Lionel Conacher.
3 min read · 10 October 2019
Vida Ventures has named Jean-Philippe Kouakou-Zebouah as chief financial and chief operating officer. Previously, he worked at Versant Ventures where he was senior vice president of finance.
2 min read · 08 October 2019
Greylock Partners announced that it has hired David Wadhwani as a venture partner. Wadhwani was most recently CEO of AppDynamics, which Greylock backed. Cisco purchased AppDynamics in 2017 for $3.7 billion days prior to its scheduled IPO. Prior to AppDynamics, Wadhwani was with Adobe.
1 min read · 03 October 2019
Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Verve Therapeutics, a next-generation cardiovascular company, has named Dr. Andrew Bellinger as chief scientific officer. Dr. Bellinger is a general cardiologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Verve’s backers include GV, ARCH Venture Partners, F-Prime Capital and Biomatics Capital.
3 min read · 03 October 2019
Washington, D.C.-based venture firm Paladin Capital Group has promoted Mourad Yesayan to managing director. He joined the firm in 2009.
2 min read · 02 October 2019
Rally Ventures has named Justin Kaufenberg as a partner. Recently, Kaufenberg was co-founder and CEO of SportsEngine.
3 min read · 02 October 2019
Toronto-based venture firm iGan Partners has hired Stacey Kline as an impact partner. Kline is the managing director of The Good Fund, an impact fund that invests in startups "solving some of the world's biggest challenges." Prior to founding The Good Fund, Kline worked at Goodmans LLP where she was the director of innovation projects.
2 min read · 01 October 2019
Last week, Scale Venture Partners announced it has hired Chris Yin as the firm's newest principal. Yin joins from Rainforest QA, where he worked on product. At Foster City, California-based Scale, Yin will focused on investments in intelligent business software, vertical AI companies and data-first businesses.
1 min read · 01 October 2019
Trinity Ventures has named Brett Wilson and Neil Daswani as executives in residence. Wilson is the former CEO and co-founder of Trinity portfolio company TubeMogul while Daswani is co-founder and co-director of Stanford's Advanced Computer Security Certificate Program.
3 min read · 27 September 2019
Monica Varman has joined G2VP's investment team. Previously, she worked at McKinsey & Company.
2 min read · 25 September 2019
