This week’s Moves in VC contains 8 moves and 9 new fund announcements, compiled from 40+ sources.
ICYMI
🔵 Lisa Liu joined Dragonfly as a Partner. Lisa previously worked at SignalFire as a Principal. Dragonfly is a venture capital firm investing in crypto.
MIDWESTERN US
🟠 Ilana Habib left her role as a Direct Investments Principal at Cintrifuse Capital to launch her own fund, Psycho Capital. Cintrifuse Capital is a venture fund focusing on startups from Cincinnati.
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WESTERN US
🟣 David Belden left his role as an Executive Talent Network Partner at Andreessen Horowitz.
🟣 Nick Washburn left his role as a Senior Managing Director at Intel Capital. Nick joined Moderne as a Chief Operations Officer.
🟣 Luke Riggan joined Amplify Partners as an Associate Investor. Luke previously served as a Cofounder and CSO at ImmunoVec.
EASTERN US
🟢 Sercan Ozcan was promoted to Partner and Chief Financial Officer at AlleyCorp.
🟢 Shield Capital announced several promotions this week. Shield Capital is a venture capital firm focusing on cybersecurity, AI, space & autonomy for commercial and government enterprises.
- David Rothzeid was promoted to Partner.
- Lisa Hill was promoted to Director of Global Platform and Partnerships.
- Jacqueline Neugue was promoted to Director of Investor Relations and Capital Formation.
- Maggie Gray was promoted to Principal.
- Matt Kaplan was promoted to Vice President.
- Lexi Paulson was promoted to Chief of Staff.
🟢 Robert W. Stockton joined Type One Ventures as North America Head of Investor Relations. Robert previously worked at Grafine Partners as a Managing Director. Type One Ventures is a venture capital firm focusing on startups that are progressing humanity forward.
🟢 Anthony Santaro was promoted to Principal at Armory Square Ventures. Armory Square Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm focusing on B2B SaaS founders in New York State.
NEW FUNDS
These firms are ready to write checks, with new funds recently closed.
🔴 London-based Creandum closed its eighth $750M fund to target early-stage technology startups.
🔴 Switzerland-based redalpine closed its eighth $250M fund to back European founders building frontier technology companies.
🔴 Madrid-based Seaya raised $670M in the first close for its growth-stage fund.
🔴 Berlin-based Robin Capital closed its second $16.8M fund to focus on deeptech, robotics, defense, and space.
🔴 Singapore-based NeoSci Ventures has raised $54.6M in the first close of its inaugural fund. The fund will focus on biotech companies.
🔴 Tel Aviv-based Vine Ventures raised its third $236M fund to target US and Israeli technology companies.
🔴 California-based Zacua Ventures closed its second $135M fund to focus on physical AI, robotics, and alternative materials.
🔴 San Francisco-based Proximal Ventures closed its new $27.5M fund to back AI-native companies building across the life science value chain.
🔴 Austin-based XLIO raised an additional $100M to build Made to Order startups for technology companies.
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