Private Equity
VidMob, a full stack creative technology platform, has named Humphrey Chen as chief product officer. VidMob's backers include BuildGroup, Acadia Woods, Herington LLC, Interlock Partners, Macanta Investments and You & Mr Jones.
3 min read · 17 September 2019
Bain Capital Ventures has named Keri Gohman as an operating partner. Recently, Gohman was chief platform business officer at Xero.
3 min read · 17 September 2019
Mountain View, California-based twoXAR Inc, an artificial intelligence-driven biopharmaceutical company, has appointed Dr. Allen Poirson as senior vice president of biopharmaceutical business development. Poirson is the former CEO of Sony Biotechnology. TwoXAR's backers included SoftBank Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, OS Fund, CLI Ventures and the Stanford-StartX Fund.
3 min read · 17 September 2019
New York City-based Rgenix Inc, a developer of first-in-class small molecule and antibody cancer therapeutics, has named Dr. Robert Wasserman as its new chief medical officer. Recently, Wasserman was chief medical officer at Toronto-based Northern Biologics, a developer of first-in-class immuno-oncology products. Rgenix's backers include Lepu Medical, Oceanpine Capital, WuXi AppTec’s Corporate Venture Fund, Novo Holdings A/S, Sofinnova Partners, Alexandria Venture Investments LLC and the Partnership Fund for New York City.
5 min read · 16 September 2019
Shatter Fund LLC, an venture firm focused on technology companies led and founded by female entrepreneurs, has named Jenny Johnson as an adviser. Johnson is president and chief operating officer of Franklin Templeton.
3 min read · 16 September 2019
Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Verve Therapeutics, a next-generation cardiovascular company, has named Dr. Andrew Geall to its scientific advisory board. Geall is vice president of formulations, analytics and chemistry at Avidity Biosciences. Verve's backers include GV, ARCH Venture Partners, F-Prime Capital and Biomatics Capital.
3 min read · 16 September 2019
Austin-based Next Coast Ventures has named Sarah Puil as an entrepreneur-in-residence. Previously, Puil was senior vice president at Civic Entertainment.
3 min read · 13 September 2019
LiveOak Venture Partners has named David Stewart as a venture partner. Previously, he worked at Trinity Ventures.
2 min read · 11 September 2019
Pappas Ventures has named Alex Arfaei as a partner. Previously, he was a managing director at BMO Capital Markets.
2 min read · 11 September 2019
Los Angeles-based Alpha Edison, an early-stage venture firm that is seeking to raise $250 million for its second fund, announced it has added Angela Sun as chief operating officer and partner. Sun came over from Bloomberg LP, where she served most recently as Global Head of Strategy and Corporate Development.
1 min read · 09 September 2019
