Carlos Estrada has been named managing director of accelerator NMotion and will continue to be entrepreneur-in-residence at NUTech Ventures.

Michael Zeisser, Alibaba's chairman of US investments, has departed having overseen deals for Lyft and Snap, and will likely be replaced by Peter Stern.

Erkki Aaltonen has left StartAD to oversee YaraGerminate, a corporate venturing fund formed by Yara International.

Jack Eadie, formerly an investor at Fidelity's Eight Roads Ventures unit, has moved to Siemens subsidiary Next47 as principal.

Katherine Grass, global head of innovation for Amadeus Group and founder of its corporate venturing unit, has joined VC firm Thayer Ventures.

Kirsten Stead and John Hamer, the two members of the Monsanto Growth Ventures team, are general partners for a $250m Data Collective fund.

Vincent La Terza has been promoted to associate vice-president of research and director of technology transfer and commercialisation at Georgia State.