Corey Christian has joined Robert Bosch’s CVC unit as an investment director, where he will focus on US east coast deals.

Biotech venture capital is shrinking from boomtime highs, but Sakae Asanuma, CEO of Taiho Ventures, says now is a good time to find new novel treatments to back.

Brad Burke will continue to be in charge of entrepreneurship programme Rice Alliance, which has supported thousands of startups to date.

The promotions come amid a spate of reshufflings at Alphabet's corporate venture unit.

Erin Overstreet is rejoining university tech transfer, having spent the past year at an IP consultancy and earlier career stops at UCSF and UT Austin.

Luba Safran, who spent seven years at AB InBev’s CVC arm, joined Mondelēz’s counterpart as a senior director to back emerging snack brands.

Japanese pharma firm Taiho has added $100m to its US-based CVC subsidiary, which has a team of five people.

US insurance firm MassMutual’s investment arm has appointed Kara Burns a senior associate for its Climate Technology Fund.

Illumina Ventures alumnus Noel Lee has moved up to partner at Novo Holdings, just eight months after being hired as a principal in its Growth Investments team.

Claire Leurent, formerly principal at Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JJDC, has joined AbbVie’s CVC unit as managing director.