Nagraj Kashyap is leaving his position as head of Microsoft's M12 subsidiary to take up a managing partner role overseeing SoftBank's Vision Funds.

SoftBank Investment Advisers, which manages Japan-headquartered telecommunications and internet group SoftBank’s Vision Funds, is hiring Nagraj Kashyap as managing partner, it has told Bloomberg.

Kashyap is currently head of US-based software producer Microsoft’s corporate venturing unit, M12. A serial GCV Powerlist award winner, he joined Microsoft in 2016 having previously headed Qualcomm Ventures, the coprorate venturing arm of mobile chipmaker Qualcomm

Kashyap is also serving a four-year term as board member of the US trade body National Venture Capital…

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James Mawson

James Mawson is founder and chief executive of Global Venturing.