Chika Yoshinaga has joined Sofinnova Partners as a vice president focused on Asian activities. She previously was deputy general manager with NIF SMBC Ventures. www.sofinnova.fr
Oxford Bioscience Partners has promoted Douglas Fambrough to the position of general partner. He joined the firm in January 2000 as an associate, after having been a genomic scientist with what is now known as the Broad Institute. He led Oxford's deal for Sirna Therapeutics (acquired by Merck for $1.1b), and also was involved with […]
Fulbright & Jaworski LLP has added three attorneys in its corporate practice: Partner Courtney Marcus, partner, joins from Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, while partner Barry Cowan and senior council Randy Fickel join Fulbright's Dallas office from Winstead PC. www.fulbright.com
Umesh Padval has joined Bessemer Venture Partners as an operating partner. He will be based in Menlo Park, and previously was executive vice president of LSI Logic's consumer products group. www.bvp.com
Houlihan Lokey has acquired Blenheim Advisors Ltd., a London-based leveraged debt advisory firm focused on the European market. No financial terms were disclosed. As part of the deal, Blenheim co-founders William Allen and Jonathan Guise have joined Houlihan Lokey as managing directors and co-heads of European debt advisory. www.hlhz.com
QuickPlay Media, a Toronto-based provider of a mobile video platform, has raised US$15 million in Series C funding. Ventures West led the deal, and was joined by return backers General Catalyst, J.L. Albright Venture Partners and Up Capital. www.quickplay.com
CloudShield Technologies Inc., a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based provider of IP services control and security solutions, announced that it has raised $15 million in Series D funding. Tektronix Inc. led the deal, which closed last December. Return backers included ComVentures, TPG Growth, Foundation Capital and Paladin Capital. CloudShield and Tektronix also announceda strategic partnership in which […]
Phurnace Software Inc., an Austin, Texas-based Java application deployment company, has raised around $1.33 million in Series A funding led by DFJ Mercury. www.phurnace.com
Novate Medical Ltd., a Galway, Ireland-based developer of inferior vena cava filters, has raised EUR 4 million in VC funding. ACT Venture Capital and Seroba BioVentures co-led the deal, and were joined by Enterprise Ireland.
Amminex, a Danish developer of ammonia storage and delivery systems for cleaner emissions, has raised EUR 7 million in Series C funding. Conduit Ventures led the deal, and was joined by return backer Seed Capital KS. www.amminex.net