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Powerlist Q&A – Sergio Escobar, BCF Ventures
Q&A with Sergio Escobar, CEO and managing director, BCF Ventures
Dec 2, 2021
Kompas points towards $160m investment vehicle
VKR Holdings is a cornerstone investor of the venture partnership’s Fund 1, which will back early-stage companies developing technologies designed to alleviate climate change.
SBIA scores four managing partners
Sumer Juneja, Lydia Jett, Vikas Parekh and Dennis Chang have all ascended at SoftBank Investment Advisers, which runs the corporate's Vision Funds.
Pace accelerates with $40m
Marubeni Ventures and UOB Venture Management both contributed to a series A round for the online buy now, play later service.
Housenbold falls for Leaf Home
The house renovator has hired GCV Rising Star Jeffrey Housenbold, formerly a founding managing partner at SBIA where he helped oversee the SoftBank Vision Funds.
Kabir moves to AV8
Amir Kabir has departed from Munich Re Ventures to lead financial and insurance technology investments at the Allianz-backed AV8 Ventures.
Powerlist Q&A – Anand Kamannavar, Applied Ventures
Q&A with Anand Kamannavar, global head, Applied Ventures
General Catalyst nets SoftBank's Nishar
Deep Nishar has departed from his SBIA senior managing partner role to help develop enterprise software, biotech and life sciences pipelines at the venture firm.
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Punwani joins Abingworth as partner
The venture firm has hired Jayson Punwani a year after he left his partner position at corporate venturing unit Takeda Ventures.
Gonzalez leaves Google's Area 120 to run M12
Microsoft had been looking for a head of its M12 corporate venturing unit following the departure of its founder, Nagraj Kashyap.
Fox starts $100m NFT fund
Scott Greenberg, co-founder and CEO of Bento Box Entertainment, a unit of Fox, will serve as CEO of Blockchain Creative Labs.
Cross River starts Digital Ventures unit
Hillel Olivestone, Cross River’s head of corporate development, will run unit.
Giri goes to Splunk
Rohit Giri left a director of corporate development role at BigCommerce to take up a similar position at Splunk, where he will help run its Splunk Ventures unit.
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SBIA scores four managing partners
Sumer Juneja, Lydia Jett, Vikas Parekh and Dennis Chang have all ascended at SoftBank Investment Advisers, which runs the corporate's Vision Funds.
Osborn leaves Telus to rejoin RecapHealth
Rich Osborn was a GCV Powerlist 2021 award winner as head of Canada-listed telecommunications firm Telus’ corporate venturing unit.
Salesforce promotes its impact investment team
Claudine Emeott has been moved up to partner at Salesforce Ventures Impact Funds while Adrianna Alterman has been made a director.
Herbst leaves Nvidia to set up GFT Ventures
Jeff Herbst has departed from his role heading Nvidia GPU Ventures to join Samsung Ventures alumnus Jay Eum at the recently formed GFT Ventures.
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