The universities of Durham, Newcastle, Northumbria, Sunderland and Teesside are the latest group of academic institutions in the UK to launch a fund to invest in their spinouts.

Ex-ecommerce executive Edouard Chavassieu has joined InMotion Ventures as an associate and will help it expand its activities in mainland Europe.

DMG Ventures has announced two new $32m funds that will use media for equity arrangements, an increasingly common investment strategy.

SETsquared's investment vehicle will fund companies that are spun out of the universities of Bath, Bristol, Cardiff, Exeter, Southampton and Surrey.

The Danish university's VC subsidiary, PSV Foundry, set up the fund to investment in environmental sustainability companies.

Flanagan doubled the Irish university's spinout rate during his time there.

Matthew Ridley is departing from his role as head of aviation group IAG's corporate venture and innovation unit, Hangar 51.

The longed-for recovery in startup exits hasn't yet arrived. But those startups that did get bought or publicly listed in September did so at higher prices.

The European venture capital firm aims to raise a total €250m for its fourth fund by next year.

After 12 years as an investor with Octopus, Lukasz Michalak has moved to the Ukrainian energy firm DTEK to work on clean tech investments.