Baris Aksoy has left Allianz-backed VC fund AV8 after five years, during which time he sat on the boards of a number of tech startups.

The UK institution has secured financing to launch a shared tech transfer office that will help develop more spinouts from the arts, humanities and social sciences.

Investors — particularly corporates — have increased backing for spacetech startups in the past five years. Here are the new entrants catching their eye.

Holly Bolgar Jackson leaves the French food multinational's CVC arm after eight years to join the core business's enterprise strategy team.

Jan Brockhausen, previously an associate director at SevenVentures, is now a principal at Fiege Group-backed F-Log Ventures.

Dawn Brooks has joined consultancy Wood Mackenzie after spending three years at Anglo American's CVC, Decarbonisation Ventures.

After initially launching as Neil&Buzz in April, TGW Logistics has relaunched its CVC arm as TGW Logistics Ventures and will soon start investing.

Barnett led consulting services at the University of Oxford's commercialisation arm where she increased revenue and service performance.

The fund is part of a broader plan to create an innovation and startup cluster in the Italian city of Milan.

With a focus on hardware, the unit sees huge opportunity to help its parent company develop cleantech assets.