CloudCheckr, a US-based software company to help people use Amazon Web Services, will be free for start-ups that receive funding from either Excell Partners, a seed-stage venture capital fund established in cooperation with the University of Rochester and the State of New York, or the Rochester Angel Network.

Utah has renamed its Technology Commercialization Office as Technology & Venture Commercialization.

He is a serial entrepreneur, corporate executive and university technology commercialization executive.

The new organisation, ASTP-Proton, will be based in the Netherlands and with a satellite office in Brussels, Belgium, and have a combined membership of 1000 individuals from 450 institutions.

She joined Citi Ventures in April 2013 coming to the team from Citi's consumer business as head of North America marketing for the past three years.

At the end of last year, Unilever committed a further $450m to its corporate venturing unit for its third fund to help it expand in Asia and North America from Europe.

In April last year, Wittlebee raised $2.5m in its seed round from Google Ventures and venture capital firms Crosslink Capital and Rincon Venture Partners.

Kevin Skillern is reported to be leaving GE Energy Financial Services

OptiEnz Sensors, a spin-out of Colorado State University, has named Steve Witt as its chief executive.