On Deck Fund (ODF) is a $150m pre-accelerator focused on startup ideation representing talent network On Deck.

Angelini Pharma has hired Thomas Michael Thestrup, formerly of UCB and Lundbeck, to work on its innovation team.

Tamara Steffens, a GCV Powerlist 2021 award winner at Microsoft’s M12 unit, is reportedly set to help establish a $100m fund for Thomson Reuters.

Nikola Trbovic had been a GCV Rising Stars Awards winner as principal at Pfizer Ventures, which hired him in 2014.

Daniel Karp had joined Cisco Investments in 2013 to focus on Israel and Latin America and has now left for Cervin Ventures.

SoftBank Vision Fund 2 helped revenue growth technology provider 6sense close a $200m series E round at a $5.2bn valuation, cash used to acquire Gree-backed sales software developer Saleswhale.

Mental health app developer Lyra Health raised $235m from investors including Salesforce while blockchain development software provider Secret Network launched a $225m ecosystem fund.

Q&A with Rob Coppedge, CEO, Echo Health Ventures

The digital media group has restructured its corporate venturing activities on the same day as China revealed proposals which would place investments under greater scrutiny.

In a recent poll running in October and November of corporate venturing industry leaders, Global Corporate Venturing (GCV) asked what would be the biggest issues for 2022