Amadeus Capital Partners has hired Edward Kliphuis, who has left his role as investment director at Merck Group subsidiary M Ventures.

Edward Kliphuis has departed from his position as a Spain-based investment director at M Ventures, the investment arm of Germany-headquartered pharmaceutical company Merck Group.

Venture capital firm Amadeus Capital Partners has hired Kliphuis as a partner, and he will help lead its scale investment activities under the firm’s managing partner, Andrea Traversone.

Kliphuis said: “Amadeus has a long history of forward thinking with investments such as Vocal IQ, Solexa and Graphcore. The scale team will be applying this knowledge and…

James Mawson

James Mawson is founder and chief executive of Global Venturing.