Recent executive-level hires and director appointments at venture capital firms and biopharma and medtech start-ups.

Derived from Strategic Transactions, Informa’s premium source for tracking life sciences deal activity, the Venture Funding Deals column provides a comprehensive monthly review of emerging life science companies that have received venture funding, including companies within the In Vitro Diagnostics, Medical Devices, and Pharmaceuticals sectors. This month’s column covers deals announced January through February 2015.

Our monthly update on technology transfer deals--licensing agreements between companies and universities or other research institutions--in the fields of life sciences, including in vitro diagnostics, pharmaceuticals, research/analytical equipment & supplies, and medical devices.

Brief profiles of these recently formed companies: Allena Pharmaceuticals, Bluegrass Vascular Technologies, Merganser Biotech and OvaScience.