Turck had founded Bloomberg Ventures in 2009 after founding TripleHop, a start-up he sold to database provider Oracle in 2005.

Matt Turck (pictured), the head of newswire Bloomberg’s corporate venturing unit, has joined venture capital firm FirstMark Capital as a managing director.

Turck had founded Bloomberg Ventures in 2009 after founding TripleHop, a start-up he sold to database provider Oracle in 2005.

Turck also started the Big Data Meetup, now with 2800 members.