Corina Kuiper, who previously held a corporate venturing position at Philips, has co-founded a venture capital support organisation for corporates and startups.

With the slow recovery from the financial crisis and divestiture strategies undertaken by some big players, 2014 was marked by numerous exits by corporate investors in the industrials sector.

The cable provider has hired Laurence 'Lo' Toney to run west coast activities for the fund, which invests in minority-led startups.

Leena Rao, who joined corporate venturing unit Google Ventures from TechCrunch in June last year, has left to take up a position at Fortune.

Northern Ireland based ICT spin-out Kainos to create 403 jobs in the region.

Nick Wheeler has left Flectronics, where he worked with seed funding subsidiary Lab IX, to take up a director role at Robert Bosch's corporate venturing unit.

Charity investor the Wellcome Trust appoints director of innovations.