Qualcomm Ventures has taken part in a $4.6m Series A for Silicon Valley-based home health-care software provider ClearCare.

Academic medical centre Cleveland Clinic has entered into a strategic partnership with UK-based i360medical. Cleveland's financial investment in i360 is Cleveland's first outside the US.

Move pays off for innovation leader.

No vale of tears for medical device company.

Ambros treats fourfold increase in assets with equanimity.

Gwen Melincoff has been senior vice-president of business development at Ireland-based drugs company Shire for more than eight years.

Takeda Ventures has invested $50m in 18 companies, four of which have been acquired while 13 are strategically active.

Laufer was a co-founder of Lilly Ventures, the corporate venturing unit of drugs peer Eli Lilly, and later a managing director at Visium Asset Management, a healthcare-focused investment firm.

Kuiper has worked across Philips for more than 20 years.