Kyocera, the Japanese industrial ceramics and electronics multinational, has established a second fund to target startups in the US and EMEA region.

Trish Skoglund joins the recent joint venture between Crowley and Seacor, two maritime logistics companies, as head of corporate development.

In August, we saw 25 corporate exits, a 19% drop from August last year, though total capital raised hit $3.97bn, up 34% year on year.

Sabancı is building a multi-gigawatt renewables portfolio, and Sabancı Climate Ventures is helping find US and European start-up technologies to plug in.

PruVen Capital's first fund had one corporate backer. Its second sees contribution from multiple insurance companies.

The Israel-based startup accelerator run by the US multinational technology company is closing to cut costs.

Matt Krna, formerly a partner at Japanese tech company SoftBank's CVC, has launched a VC service company, Two Meter Capital.

After completing his posting with the company as an MBA associate, Lee Larson joins Piva Capital as an investor.

The US-based investment arm of Japanese camera manufacturer Nikon has partnered with Geodesic Capital to launch a $51.5m tech startup fund.

GCV Powerlist member and Shell Ventures managing director Geert van de Wouw will be succeeded by Quennie Co from September.