Shasta Ventures Expands Team
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Shasta Ventures, a venture fund managing $460 million and investments in startups like Mint, Flock and Turn, has promoted Jason Pressman to Managing Director and added a new associate, Evan Liang, to the team.
Pressman, which we named a VC to watch back in 2005, was previsously the VP strategy, business development and operations at Walmart.com. Pressman’s investments include Click Forensics, Doostang, iConclude, Mochi Media, OSS-1701, PopJax, ResponseLogix and Tumri.
Liang was previously a product manager at eBay and in business development at Microsoft.
