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Hoping to lighten the recruitment burden for its portfolio companies, Passion Capital, the London-based early-stage VC, has announced that it's hired ex-Facebooker Melissa Trahan to the new position of "Head of Talent".
More from TechCrunch Founders Fund, the firm founded by Peter Thiel and other PayPal executives, famously declared that it wants to back companies with big, ambitious visions (not just dinky web startups).
More from CrunchGear A funny thing has happened in tech in recent years. It used to be that you could expect a venture-backed company to file for an IPO soon after a few rounds of funding -- after, say, its Series C or Series D raise.
More from CrunchGear In 2011, Kleiner Perkins debuted its plans for a summer internship program to place top engineering talent from colleges at the firm's portfolio companies.
More from CrunchGear Emergence Capital Partners, an enterprise-focused venture firm that has backed Salesforce.com, Yammer and Box, just took on a new operating partner with the hiring of Alison Berkley Wagonfeld.
More from TechCrunch We host 50+ events for our portfolio companies a year -- and historically we've held off on sharing the content widely, since we viewed it as a benefit that came from being a member of the First Round Capital community.
More from Redeye VC Rocket Internet, the Samwer brothers' e-commerce startup incubator, is today announcing yet more money for one of its portfolio companies.
More from TechCrunch MuckerLab, the up-and-coming L.A.-based accelerator program is hosting its demo day for the 10 portfolio companies in its winter class today.
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