EMV Capital managing director Ilian Iliev has replaced Ian Postlethwaite as CEO of NetScientific on a part-time basis.

Origin Energy has agreed to make a strategic investment in energy supplier Octopus Energy for a total of $327m.

Life sciences-focused venture firm Kurma Partners has secured Servier Laboratories for a third fund dedicated to early and incubation-stage therapeutics companies.

Life sciences-focused venture firm Kurma Partners has secured Pasteur Institute for a third fund dedicated to early and incubation-stage therapeutics companies.

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

Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.

San Raffaele-Telethon gene therapy spinout Genespire has picked up series A funding from Sofinnova Partners to target inherited metabolic diseases and primary immunodeficiencies.

Woodford has faced challenges in selling its shareholdings in spinouts including Oxford Nanopore and Immunocore, but has now lined up Acacia as a potential buyer.

Axa Venture Partners and Orange Digital Ventures backed a $27.2m round that will fund product development and international growth for the employee engagement software provider.

Robocath, which is developing robotic-assisted technology for cardiovascular diseases, has collected capital from investors including TUS-Holdings.