Vienna Insurance is among the limited partners for a $48m seed-stage fund aimed at university spinouts in Austria.

Wanxiang's HashKey Capital vehicle is among the backers for the blockchain accelerator's venture capital fund.

Female-focused venture firm Astia has secured Mastercard as lead investor for its recently-launched early-stage fund.

Advantech and Momenta Ventures have teamed for a fund set to invest $50m across the artificial intelligence and industrial internet-of-things sectors.

SoftBank was among the contributors to the $130m raised by the venture firm, created through the merger of Joa Investimentos and E.bricks Ventures.

Young Sohn is retiring while Luc Julia is leaving as Sean Kae and David Lee step up and into Samsung Catalyst and Samsung Next respectively.

Ben Luckett has ascended to chief innovation officer of Aviva while Ant Barker will oversee Aviva Ventures' activities.

Louie Pastor will head Xerox’s Corporate Development group as it invests out of a $250m fund and explores mergers and acquisitions.

Pfizer, LG, Corning, W L Gore, Showa Denko, Nissan Chemical and Nagase & Co were among the limited partners for the materials-focused VC firm's latest fund.

Clal Insurance, Ayalon Insurance, MS&AD, FWD, Reale Mutua and LB Group were among the limited partners for the venture capital firm's sophomore fund.