Less than 18 months after co-founding Google Ventures Europe as a general partner, Eze Vidra is leaving Google Ventures and parent company Alphabet.

Patty Burke, previously a consultant at corporate venturing consultancy Bell Mason and a partner at Accelevate, has joined Centre for Creative Leadership.

Peter Bastien has left Toyota Tsusho USA where he oversaw strategy and business development to become principal at Siemens' corporate venturing unit.

University College London announces that its director of UCL Enterprise Operations and director of UCL Advances, Timothy Barnes, is to step down at the end of the year.

Viktor Drvota joins Karolinska Development as its chief investment officer, leaving his role as head of life science at SEB Venture Capital.

Production company Hit Big secures $500,000 of its planned fundraising from one undisclosed corporation, as it looks to bring corporate venturing to television next year.

There is still concern that those in corporate venturing are not adequately compensated. Three quarters of respondents to the latest J Thelander Consulting said their title and compensation structure failed to appropriately reward them. Jody Thelander is pictured.

Bennet Grill has left his business development post at market intelligence provider Ipreo to take up a position at private equity firm Gemspring Capital.

Casper de Clercq and Ryan Harris have been promoted to GP at the Wells Fargo-funded venture firm alongside the promotion of four of its team to vice president roles.

The e-commerce company is in talks with mapping data provider MapmyIndia at the same time as it seeks out a new head of corporate development.