The three-month first Kaplan EdTech Accelerator starts in June with 10 entrepreneurs gaining $20,000.

McManus will remain a consultant to Panasonic Venture Group for the next 18 months.

New Wayra Academy Director. 9 start-ups get third party funding

David Leftley had been nearly four years as head of venture capital Europe at Vodafone and been a board observer at portfolio companies Oxford BioSignals, TOT Power Control, Compliant Phones, Vasona Networks, CellEra and Affirmed Networks.

Google Ventures has recruited Cyndi Reseburg and Graham Hancock to their marketing team.

Turck had founded Bloomberg Ventures in 2009 after founding TripleHop, a start-up he sold to database provider Oracle in 2005.

His previous investments as a partner at CMEA from 2006 include Visiogen (acquired by Abbott in 2009), InSound Medical (acquired by Sonova in 2010), and VasoNova (acquired by Teleflex in 2011).