Alastair Goldfisher
Seed-stage investor Pear, which in December raised $160 million for its third fund, announced it has added Lucy Zhang and Arash Afrakhteh as the firm's first-ever visiting partners.
Early-stage VC Defy Partners has added Madison McIlwain, a former Gap product manager, as an associate.
More firms are realizing that it’s beneficial to help the founders they back and are providing them with various resources. The services are a way to differentiate themselves from others. Firms and LPs are on board.
The San Jose company Kloud.io has raised $4 million in seed funding led by Unusual Ventures, with participation from Jason Calacanis and Firebolt Ventures.
Fifth Wall Ventures, which considers itself the largest firm focused on real estate tech, hired Joelle Khoury as general counsel. And it blogged about why it is raising a $200m impact fund.
The cybersecurity investor promoted Manoj “MJ” Ramachandran to vice president and added cyber forensics export Shane Shook and former Cyxtera Technologies CIO Leoncio “Leo” Casusol as venture consultants.
Paul Holland, who produced the documentary “Something Ventured” about the early days of venture capital in Silicon Valley, will work with CVCs on their new venture teams, CVC funds, corporate accelerators, and executive investment management teams to ensure their startup investments and partnerships thrive.
The Pasadena, California-based early-stage venture firm announced that Aimée Leifer and Dan Murray have joined the firm as venture partners.
The firm announced it has promoted Katherine Boyle, Peter Boyce and Alex Tran each to partner.
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