Abhi Kumar is heading up a newly opened Indian office for Microsoft's corporate venturing unit, which has already begun investing in the country.

Mercia Asset Management has lost its investment director and university lead Nicola Broughton to a new $171m fund targeting the medical cannabis industry.

SoftBank Investment Advisers, which manages SoftBank's Vision Fund, is reportedly going to have its 500-strong staff reduced by about 15%.

Christophe Haunold has departed Institut national polytechnique de Toulouse to head up a new tech transfer office launched by University of Luxembourg.

Akshay Naheta and Kentaro Matsui, previously managing partners for SoftBank Vision Fund, have moved to SoftBank itself to help improve its investment tactics.

Creighton Hicks, formerly a partner at the computing technology producer’s investment arm, has joined venture firm LiveOak Venture Partners as a principal.

GCV Powerlist member Natalie Hwang has departed from Simon Property Group where she oversaw its investment arm for nearly five years, and set up a growth equity firm.

Vision Fund is reportedly set to reduce the size of a 500-strong team by about 10% in the wake of some $18bn in losses over the past year.

After five years at Salesforce, the former head of Salesforce Ventures Japan has departed to become a co-founder of a new venture capital firm.

Jim Aota has moved up to CEO at Yamaha Motor Ventures and Laboratory Silicon Valley, replacing George Kellerman who has moved to Toyota.