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QED Investors, a global venture capital firm focused on investing in disruptive financial services companies, has hired Alexandra (Ale) Piedrahita.
Prior to joining QED, Piedrahita was a senior associate with Los Angeles-based venture firm March Capital, an early growth, B2B fund where she focused on fintech strategy, with a particular emphasis on infrastructure.
“Across the UK we are seeing significant growth in deal flow from pre-seed to growth-stage companies,” says QED Investors Co-Founder and Managing Partner Nigel Morris. “As we expand, we are delighted to have Ale on board. She brings a wealth of talent, energy and a truly global
Honeycomb, an observability platform used by high-performance engineering teams to quickly visualise, analyse, and improve cloud application quality and performance, is expanding into Europe, led by the appointment of former Pivotal, SignalFx, and Chef Software executive Andy Hawkins, as well as the close of a USD50 million Series C round.
This latest round was led by New York-based global private equity and venture capital firm Insight Partners, with participation from existing investors Scale Venture Partners, Headline (formerly e.ventures), Storm Ventures, Industry Ventures, and NextWorld Capital. Honeycomb has raised USD96.9 million of funding to date.
This latest round of capital
Hercules Capital, a specialty financing provider to innovative venture, growth and established stage companies backed by some of the leading and top-tier venture capital and select private equity firms, has appointed Pam Randhawa to its board of directors, effective 1 November, 2021.
Randhawa is a thought leader within the life sciences sector and an experienced industry executive, with more than 20 years of experience leading public and private companies, ranging from biotech, healthcare and sustainable solutions, through their various stages of growth.
Randhawa will serve on the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.
“Pam’s deep industry experience and executive leadership credentials
Evercore has appointed Thomas Sabatier as a Vice President in the firm’s Private Capital Advisory group (PCA). Sabatier will be based in the London office and will focus on advising limited partners on secondary market transactions and providing execution services.
Sabatier has over seven years of experience in the secondaries market across Europe, most recently as a Principal in Triago’s London office. He will be joining his former Triago colleagues David Markson, James Fish, Michael Bynarowicz and Eli Auerbach who recently joined the Evercore PCA team in New York.
Lea Lazaric Calvert, Head of PCA Europe, says: “We are delighted
Caroline Heal has joined Maples and Calder, the Maples Group’s law firm, as a Funds & Investment Management Partner in its Cayman Islands office.
Heal brings extensive experience in the structuring, formation and operation of offshore hedge funds, private equity funds and investment fund platforms. She advises a wide range of asset managers and financial institutions and has been recognised for her expertise by The Legal 500.
Heal will be an integral member of the firm’s top-tier Cayman Islands Funds & Investment Management team where she will also collaborate closely with lawyers and professionals across the firm’s global practices in
Edison Partners, the growth equity investment firm, has made a series of executive appointments. Effective immediately, Gregg Michaelson has been promoted to General Partner, Jennifer Lee has been promoted to Partner, and Joe Giquinto has been named Chief Financial Officer.
These promotions recognise the immense value of Michaelson’s operational and investment expertise, Lee’s fintech dealmaking prowess, and the seamless financial and accounting oversight Giquinto has provided to the firm as the complexity of its needs have evolved.
“Edison remains committed to finding capital efficient businesses with existing product-market fit, a strategy that has delivered exponentially stronger results for our
IQ-EQ has appointed Edwin Chan as its Chief Commercial Officer for UK and Ireland – the latest in a series of senior new hires.
Chan brings with him over 20 years of experience helping launch and grow fund services businesses, including within leading international banks in London, Bermuda and Hong Kong. An expert in sales and negotiation, he will be entrusted with fostering strong relationships with IQ-EQ clients and prospects, as well as developing and executing key growth sales strategies, tactics and action plans.
As IQ-EQ pushes ahead with ambitious growth plans, Chan will play a critical role
Kramer Levin has appointed Elisia M Klinka as a partner in the time’s Private Equity/M&A practice in New York.
Klinka’s practice focuses on private equity and mergers and acquisitions, and she represents several private equity sponsors and strategic acquirers.
Kramer Levin co-managing partners Howard T Spilko and Paul H Schoeman, say: “We are pleased to welcome Elisia to the firm. We have been growing our Corporate practice dramatically in recent years, particularly our private equity and M&A capabilities, and that growth continues to be a strategic priority for the firm.”
“We are experiencing extraordinarily high demand for our group’s services
Early-stage venture capital firm Flyover Capital Partners has appointed Tristan Mace as Managing Partner.
Mace will focus on expanding the firm’s growth initiatives, sourcing new investments, and supporting portfolio companies.
Mace relocated to Kansas City from New York City, where he founded and invested in technology ventures and advised leading venture capital firms. Prior to Flyover Capital, he was a Venture Partner at Warburg Serres (formerly Animal Ventures), where he led Blockchain and Web3 investment strategy on behalf of Merck and AXA. He has served on Advisor Panels for the US Government’s Executive Branch, the Council of Experts for the
Technology expert Vahan Vardanian has inked an agreement to assist emerging markets private equity firm Da Vinci Capital with developing the firm’s pipeline of portfolio companies in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), primarily Armenia and Georgia.
Vardanian has over 25 years of experience in the digital technology, financial technology, retail and market infrastructure industries. From 2013-17, Vardanian was a partner at McKinsey & Company in the CIS. From 2011-13, he was chief information officer of PJSC Moscow Exchange (MCX: MOEX), which concluded an initial public offering in 2013.
From 2004-2010, Vardanian was chief technology officer at Renaissance Capital, where
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