Tobias Hasenjäger has departed from his position as senior investment manager for energy utility VNG’s investment arm, after two years.

Keppel has exited data centre operator Etix Everywhere, which has been acquired as part of Vantage Data Centers' $2bn European expansion.

David Thévenon, who led some of the biggest investments from SoftBank and its Vision Fund over the past five years, has left for Balderton Capital.

Illumina Ventures returned to reinvest in a $21.8m round for the DNA-analysis system developer having led its series A round in 2018.

FEI, Transvalor, KPN, Vilmorin & Cie, Vyv Group, Mgen and Clarins subsidiary Famille C were all among the contributors to the fund's $82.3m close.

Sources have told the Wall Street Journal the fund is set to raise less than half the $108bn in MOUs SoftBank received, with the corporate supplying most of that capital itself.

Cornes, 3M Ventures and Repsol Energy Ventures contributed to a round that increased the in-mold structural electronics provider's total funding to more than $59m.

Biocodex returned for a $19.8m round that boosted microbiome drug developer MaaT Pharma's overall funding to more than $33m.

Each Friday the Global Corporate Venturing Deal Net rounds up the week’s smaller deals and tracks the emerging companies accessing corporate funds.

The tissue analysis technology developer has now raised more than $37m, having received $23.6m in a first tranche of its series C round that was led by PHC Holdings.