Materials and hardtech will be focuses for the CVC unit, says MD Nicolas Sauvage.

After seven years at Alphabet, the last two as a partner at its GV unit, Deena Shakir is taking a partner role at venture firm Lux Capital.

Chris Downer has joined Sorenson Capital’s venture capital unit after three years at XL Catlin's corporate venturing arm.

Harvard Medical School's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has appointed MIT TLO's Tod Woolf as executive director of the Technology Ventures Office.

Managing partner Dai Watanabe discusses the unit’s strategy and how it will work with entrepreneurs and DeNA’s employees.

Maria Vanegas and George Coulston have been promoted to senior licensing manager for life sciences and physical sciences respectively at University of Pittsburgh Innovation Institute.

UMI3's innovation optimiser team has moved across to the Masood Enterprise Centre alongside new recruits Fatemeh Salehi and Jacob Salder.

Cathy Gao has called time on her tenure at corporate venturing unit Axa Venture Partners to take a vice-president position at Sapphire Ventures.

Rodney Priestley will become Princeton University’s first vice-dean for innovation next February, lending greater emphasis to its innovation and entrepreneurship strategy.

Gerald Goodfellow, a 30-year veteran of the US Air Force, has joined Louisiana Tech as director of technology innovation and executive director of Louisiana Tech Research Institute.