Mony Hassid (pictured), managing director of Qualcomm Ventures in Israel, has left to rejoin his former boss at Microsoft.

Hassid is now general manager and MD at Microsoft Ventures in Israel reporting to Nagraj Kashyap, former head of Qualcomm Ventures, the corporate venturing unit of the eponymous chip maker, until earlier this year before he was recruited to kickstart the US-listed software supplier’s corporate venturing programme.

Israel is Microsoft Ventures’ first international office outside of the US.

Quinn Li, head…