William Taranto spoke about his near decade at Merck Global Health Innovation Fund and how corporate venturing has evolved in that time

The chipmaker will choose 10 to 15 pre-seed developers of artificial intelligence, autonomous and data technologies based in Israel to participate in the accelerator.

National Grid’s corporate venturing arm has committed $90m of its $250m initial budget, having backed a total of 12 portfolio companies and three venture capital funds.

Capgemini’s corporate venturing unit has partnered venture firm ISAI to set up a $102m fund dubbed ISAI Cap Venture to target early-stage B2B software startups.

Invengo has joined Shenzhen HTI Venture Capital to launch a fund aligned with its IoT business that is initially aiming to raise about $43m on the way to a $145m targeted close.

Comcast's corporate venturing arm has expanded its investment team with three principals: Fatima Husain, Adam Spivack and Sheena Jindal.

SoftBank has selected four senior management members – Chris Cooper, Patricia Menendez-Cambo, Francisco Sorrentino and Lee Bocker – for its Latin America Fund, SBGI subsidiary and new entity SoftBank Tech Hub.

REV Venture Partners’ Tony Askew spoke to Global Corporate Venturing about Relx's corporate venturing strategy over the years.

Erin Keller, formerly a senior associate at Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory Silicon Valley, has joined Toyota AI Ventures in a similar role.

GCV Powerlist member Thomas Birr is set to leave his role managing Innogy’s innovation activities to perform similar duties at Eon as the energy utilities prepare to merge.