Brewer Lane Ventures (BLV), a Boston-based venture capital firm focused on investing in the future of financial services, has appointed Douglas Kim as operating partner. David Castellani, formerly operating principal at Brewer Lane Ventures, has also been promoted to operating partner.
Kim will partner with portfolio company founders to provide strategic guidance and execution expertise as they scale their businesses.
Kim’s entrepreneurial experience includes the founding of Pega Cloud – the $250 million enterprise SaaS business of Pegasystems Inc (NASDAQ: PEGA), as well as Talksender, a rich media email marketing company. Kim was also a founding executive at NovaSoft, a specialist in engineering content management, and has served as chief commercial and revenue officer and advisor to several successful venture-backed, high growth startups.
Castellani joined Brewer Lane Ventures in April 2021 as an operating principal. Previously, he was senior vice president and business information officer at New York Life, where he was responsible for the oversight of enterprise technology and IT governance. Castellani has founded two startup companies in the past, Mi8 Corporation and Qv21, Inc, both of which centred on the use of technology to drive process improvement.
