Karthik Subramanian, Cisco Investments’ former head of cybersecurity investments and acquisitions, has joined the growth equity firm as a partner.

Subsidiaries of 3M and Caterpillar have both backed smart industrial hardhat developer Guardhat, boosting its overall funding to $24m.

Matthew Carbonara, has left a senior director role at Cisco Investments to join Citi Ventures as a managing director.

Sun protection product developer Nanosive has been launched by Truffle Capital with a licence from Yale University.

The newly-founded Oxford cardiovascular imaging spinout raised seed funding from backers including Oxford Sciences Innovation to pursue further product development.

Aditya Swarup, a former principal at Rakuten Ventures, has been promoted to partner.

NGP Capital has hired Rohini Chakravarthy from New Enterprise Associates as a partner.

Marin Cauvas has joined Anthemis as an investment associate from Santander InnoVentures.

Car sharing platform Togo increased its total funding to $72m in an SIG-backed series B2 round that followed a $26m round in January.

Venturra Discovery will invest in seed and pre-series A startups on behalf of its Lippo-backed parent firm.