Michael Brandkamp has departed from its managing director role at corporate-backed fund HTGF to become a general partner European Circular Bioeconomy Fund.

Toyoya has hired Hiroshi Saijou, who used to run Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory Silicon Valley, as a VP for its Toyota Research Institute division.

Victor Pascucci, who counts USAA and Munich Re among his corporate venturing stops, has put together an energy-focused VC firm called Energy Capital Ventures.

Syngenta Ventures has hired Mark Brooks, who worked on the AICPA/CIMA startup accelerator, as it seeks to replenish its team.

Ken Asada will join Salesforce Ventures after the holiday period, having spent less than a year at NTT Docomo Ventures following his time at Intel Capital.

Prolific company builder Nathalie Gaveau has joined the US-based professional services firm’s corporate innovation and incubation division as a managing director and partner.

Indonesia-based CyberAgent Capital executive director Steven Vanada has departed from the unit after more than eight years for a managing partner role at investment firm Kinesys Group.

Managing director Evan Norton has stepped down from Abbott Ventures after leading the unit’s investment initiatives for nearly a decade, moving to Accelmed.

Praveen Akkiraju has left his managing partner role at Vision Fund manager SoftBank Investment Advisers after less than two years.

Konrad Agustin and Ines Bergmann-Nolting are set to take control of Eon's corporate VC activities following the promotion of Philipp Ulbrich.