The meeting of minds between IT and healthcare is a strategic move that will help accelerate big data convergence in the wider healthcare and life sciences segments. New Entrant of the Year recipient DRX Capital has capitalised on this exciting investment segment with a fellow corporate venturing unit, potentially urging others to co-fund digital health investment opportunities.

As news emerged today that Arvind Sodhani was stepping down as head of Intel Capital in Autumn, we republish our write-up for the lifetime achievement award he received at our Global Corporate Venturing Symposium last month.

Merck Global Health Innovation Fund, the corporate venturing unit owned by pharmaceutical firm Merck, has quickly become one of the biggest corporate venturing players in the digital health segment and is dedicating a sizeable amount of its $500m fund to larger deals with private equity and other strategic partners. Given the significant impact it has made over a short period of time, there was a significant number of votes from our advisory board to make it unit of the year.

Oxford University's Isis Innovation wins our TTO award after a stellar year.

The Uppsala spin-out wins out Technology award for Upsalite.

SetSquared's new innovation director is dubbed Personality of the Year by GUV.

MIT's Lita Nelsen wins our Lifetime Achievement Award for outstanding contribution to technology transfer.

IP Group has been awarded Investment Group of the Year by Global University Venturing.