The venture fund has appointed GCV Powerlist member Rajesh Swaminathan, who had led Amat’s corporate venturing unit for nearly two years, as a venture partner.

Amrish Rau, who headed investments for PayU, has taken on the CEO role at corporate-backed merchant services provider Pine Labs.

Silicon Road Ventures has hired Ross Kimbel, who had previously ran WeWork Labs for five months, as managing director.

Seal Software is set to be acquired by DocuSign, which invested $15m in the contact-management software provider last year.

Accenture's corporate venture capital unit has promoted entrepreneur in residence Tom Lounibos and hired Jake Kaldenbaugh.

After three years investing for Xiaomi in India, Shirley Mao has moved up to lead its overseas investment activities.

GCV Emerging Leader Daniel Malandrin has departed from InovaBra Ventures’ parent firm to help one of its portfolio companies, Semantix, form a corporate venturing vehicle.

Lisa Coca, a former managing director at GE Ventures focusing on enterprise technology, has joined Intel to support participating groups at its newly announced intrapreneurial incubator.

GCV Emerging Leader Blake Luse, previously a director at Ferguson Ventures, has been appointed head of the unit and a senior director at its parent company.

Helmut Schönenberger, managing director of TU Munich’s tech transfer office, has been appointed vice-president entrepreneurship at the university.