Eneco hired Yme Bosma as its head of corporate venturing and Joeri Kamp as managing director of ventures and innovation in June.

Andreas von Richter has left Ecomobility Ventures, the VC firm set up by Total, Orange, Peugeot and SNCF, to join another firm backed by a range of corporates, Aster Capital.

Existing investors Rocket Internet and Bailie Gifford contributed to the home living e-commerce platform's latest round, closed at a $470m valuation.

The ophthalmic disease treatment developer has closed its series A round, which included Boehringer Ingelheim's corporate venturing unit.

Eyevensys, based on reserach conducted at Paris Descartes University, closes its series A round at $10m three years after it raised the initial tranche.

Sapphire Ventures has raised $1bn in capital from its sole sponsor, software provider SAP, and will divide it into a $300m early-stage fund and a $700m growth fund.

The university, which hopes to open a campus in California in 2018, will set up a business development centre at the site modelled on its existing commercialisation arm Warwick Ventures.

Novartis has co-led a $17m series A round for Inflazome, which is working on treatments for a range of chronic inflammatory diseases.