Chris Downer has joined Sorenson Capital’s venture capital unit after three years at XL Catlin's corporate venturing arm.

Harvard Medical School's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has appointed MIT TLO's Tod Woolf as executive director of the Technology Ventures Office.

Each Friday the Global Corporate Venturing Deal Net rounds up the week’s smaller deals and tracks the emerging companies accessing corporate funds.

Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.

General Atlantic has led a series H round reportedly sized at $300m that boosted the post-money valuation of Legend Capital-backed Wish up to $11.2bn.

Maria Vanegas and George Coulston have been promoted to senior licensing manager for life sciences and physical sciences respectively at University of Pittsburgh Innovation Institute.

Cathy Gao has called time on her tenure at corporate venturing unit Axa Venture Partners to take a vice-president position at Sapphire Ventures.

Rodney Priestley will become Princeton University’s first vice-dean for innovation next February, lending greater emphasis to its innovation and entrepreneurship strategy.

Gerald Goodfellow, a 30-year veteran of the US Air Force, has joined Louisiana Tech as director of technology innovation and executive director of Louisiana Tech Research Institute.

Quantum Signal has been bought by Ford after two decades of quietly producing technologies for robotic applications including autonomous driving.