Woodford Patient Capital Trust has been left with only a lifeline after Neil Woodford announced the closure of his fund management firm.

UT-Dallas's cross-disciplinary Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship has promoted its assistant director Paul Nichols to director.

Station Houston CEO Gaby Rowe is to join the Rice University-operated Ion startup incubation project as executive director.

After a two-year stint with Allied Minds, Simon Davidson has moved back to In-Q-Tel as a managing partner.

After a two year stint with Allied Minds, Simon Davidson has moved back to In-Q-Tel as a managing partner.

EPFL-backed Foundation for Technology Innovation has appointed David Kappeler as director and head of investments.

Quentin Compton-Bishop has resigned as CEO of Warwick Ventures, but said he would continue to be involved in university venturing.

The petroleum producer plans to invest $350m in a newly formed unit called Petronas Corporate Venture Capital that will follow a separate $250m fund in July.

SAP has given Ram Jambunathan, already managing director for SAP.iO, the position of head of corporate strategy.

İskender Dirik has taken on a managing director role at Samsung Next following corporate venturing stints at Bauer Media and Microsoft.