Change has come even to the venture industry.

Kenneth Bronfin and Scott English will lead Hearst's corporate venturing unit, with Gil Canaani coming in to head its Israeli investment team.

Jim Lussier left Dell Ventures last month after almost five years running the computer producer's $300m Strategic Innovation Venture Fund.

Andreas von Richter has left Ecomobility Ventures, the VC firm set up by Total, Orange, Peugeot and SNCF, to join another firm backed by a range of corporates, Aster Capital.

The ex-managing partner of GV is in talks with investors over a new venture capital fund and has a preliminary target of $350m to $500m in place.

Rich Flynn, who stepped down from his position as president of Apollo Education Ventures in April, has joined Tyton Partners as managing director.

Hearst Ventures president George Kliavkoff has departed to take the chief executive position at virtual reality content developer Jaunt.