Irad Dor has departed from Eight Roads Ventures after two and a half years to take a partner position at Microsoft subsidiary M12.

Q&A with Priyanka Chopra, head of finance, Prosus Ventures

Ben Davey has departed from corporate venturing activities at Barclays for an executive position at a special purpose acquisition company.

Binoy Bhansali was previously at Sandbox Industries, which manages $1.2bn across four funds for health insurer Blue Cross Blue Shield.

Q&A with Kurt Sheline, principal, Echo Health Ventures

Natural Products Canada has signed up a prospective anchor investor for its newly formed corporate venturing fund, which has a $39.5m target for its close.

Reza Halse will be a partner at RA Capital, which held a first and final closing of its second venture fund in October. 

Q&A with Pablo Moro Casquete, head of new business, Telefónica Innovation Ventures, and Andrés Saborido Scafati, managing director, Wayra

Prakit Worawattananon has been moved from head of Siam Cement Group's director of deeptech innovation to become an MD at its AddVentures unit.

Chief strategy officer Katsunori Sago joined SoftBank in 2018 and had since helped to expand its investment strategy.