Omnivore Capital is raising $50m and India-based conglomerate Godrej Group will commit 10% to the fund and has already made one recruit to a team that will act as its general partner.
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Kelly joins AdMeld gang
Time vice president Jason Kelly becomes chief media officer at AdMeld.
Urban leaves Holtzbrinck Ventures for start-up
Konstantin Urban, former head of Holtzbrinck Ventures, has co-founded Urban-Brand, the company behind baby care website www.windein.de.
Sorbent Therapeutics absorbs final funding
Detlef Albrecht promoted to executive president of Sorbent Therapeutics as its finishes its series B round.
Genetix takes prescription for Bluebird rebranding
Nick Leschly, partner of Third Rock Ventures, has been appointed the company’s president and chief executive as Genetix Pharmaceuticals rebrands itself Bluebird Bio.
Danfoss closes venture investing division
Stig Poulsen, managing director of Danfoss Ventures, has decided to leave the Danish industrial group after a transition period following the company’s reorganisation of its corporate venturing division to concentrate more on internal innovation.
Sarnoff leaves Dow Jones for BBC
BBC Worldwide America hires Ann Sarnoff, president of US-listed media group News Corp’s Dow Jones Ventures subsidiary, as its chief operating officer.
Bigfoot found in Fashion One deal
Michael Gleissner’s Bigfoot Ventures leads series B round for Fashion One television channel.
Recurve fires its arrow for new chief executive
Andy Leventhal, previously co-founder and CEO of carbon information measurement company Planet Metrics replaces Pratap Mukherjee at Lowe’s-backed Recurve.
Gaule’s Question Time: Hewlett-Packard prints its way to success
In the third of a series of monthly interviews with leading venture investors, Andrew Gaule, left, founder of the H-I Network and Corporate Venture Senior Executive Forum, talks to Sridhar Solur, director of Mobility Solutions at HP who is leading the ePrint venture.
McKay joins Citrix-backed Desktone
Venture capital and management veteran Peter McKay has joined Desktone.
Madding joins CM Capital crowd
Bruce Madding becomes president and chief investment officer of Cha Group’s US investment subsidiary.
Kauffman departs Good Energies
Breninkmeijer’s quasi-corporate venturing unit Good Energies reshuffles team with president’s departure.
Clark joins GSK-backed Genocea Biosciences
Chip Clark moves from business development success at Vanda to same role at GlaxoSmithkline-backed Genocea Biosciences.