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.

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

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.

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.

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

Hopes are lifting that increased pension investment will encourage late-stage startups to stay in the country and even seek to list on the London Stock Exchange.