Financial

Alphabet’s growth fund appointed Adam Naor and Monica Plaza as VP of business development and operating partner, respectively.

After launching crypto CVC Circle Ventures and leading it for three years, Wyatt Lonergan has founded a Web3 VC firm with a Circle colleague.

GCV Powerlist mainstay Gen Tsuchikawa left Japanese conglomerate Sony after two decades, having led its CVC unit in the past eight years.

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.

Tomás Zavala is leaving after six years working on the Chilean financial services firm's corporate venture capital activities.

After rejoining Hearst Ventures in July, Gabby Munoz was tasked to make fintech deals at the US media firm’s ratings agency subsidiary.

Turkey has the ingredients to be a top tech market, but it needs investors to take more risk if its startups are to get past early stage.

The corporates both committed further nine-figure sums to back startups in the rapidly growing Indian venture market.

Wana Schulze and Ivan Yoon will lead CVC investments at Telefónica’s seed and early-stage Brazilian subsidiaries.

Axa Venture Partners will invest nine-figure amounts through the new fund, which is expected to close in 2025 with its insurer parent putting up half the capital.