Houman Haghighi has followed seven years at corporate venturing unit Qualcomm Ventures by joining Menlo Ventures as a business development partner.

Houman Haghighi, formerly head of business development at Qualcomm Ventures, mobile semiconductor producer Qualcomm’s corporate venturing arm, has joined venture capital firm Menlo Ventures as a business development partner.

Haghighi joined Qualcomm Ventures in 2011 and has overseen investments in robotic gaming platform Reach Robotics, robotic arm developer Carbon Robotics, deep learning technology producer Clarifai and cybersecurity technology producer AttackIQ.

During his time at the unit, Haghighi also founded and headed Qualcomm Robotics Accelerator, a joint…

Edison Fu

Edison Fu is a reporter and Asia liaison at Global Corporate Venturing.