Bin Yan will become associate vice-president for research and director of the Office of Technology Management in September.

UT Southwestern Medical Center spinout ReCode Therapeutics has now raised a total of $200m in its series B round from investors including Osage University Partners.

Siemens and Volkswagen provided $450m for the latter's Electrify America subsidiary while Leaps by Bayer helped push ReCode Therapeutics‘ series B round to $200m.

Massachusetts Mutual Life's corporate investment arm has more than doubled its available capital in just two years.

University of Washington spinout Zap Energy is working on building a cheap, scalable fusion reactor generating low cost and carbon free energy.

Regis Kelly, executive director of University of California’s QB3 is retiring after more than 50 years with the institution.

Susquehanna Growth Equity has led a $62m series B round for speech-to-text software provider Speechmatics, while Fidelity’s Eight Roads unit led digital asset data aggregator Kaiko's $53m series B.

The motor company CVC is launching its second Exploratory Fund vintage later this year.

Vito Giallorenzo of BlackBerry joined the Global Venturing Review podcast to discuss how the BlackBerry IVY Innovation Fund is working to make automobiles smarter.

The Microsoft and Green Bay Packers-backed VC firm is raising a second vehicle more than triple the size of its predecessor, according to a filing.