The house renovator has hired GCV Rising Star Jeffrey Housenbold, formerly a founding managing partner at SBIA where he helped oversee the SoftBank Vision Funds.

Amir Kabir has departed from Munich Re Ventures to lead financial and insurance technology investments at the Allianz-backed AV8 Ventures.

Q&A with Anand Kamannavar, global head, Applied Ventures

Deep Nishar has departed from his SBIA senior managing partner role to help develop enterprise software, biotech and life sciences pipelines at the venture firm.

The venture firm has hired Jayson Punwani a year after he left his partner position at corporate venturing unit Takeda Ventures.

Microsoft had been looking for a head of its M12 corporate venturing unit following the departure of its founder, Nagraj Kashyap.

Hillel Olivestone, Cross River’s head of corporate development, will run unit.

Rohit Giri left a director of corporate development role at BigCommerce to take up a similar position at Splunk, where he will help run its Splunk Ventures unit.