Sectors

Microsoft, SKion Water and Ecolab are among the limited partners in Emerald Technology Ventures' latest fund, which will invest $100m in water conservation technologies.

Wu Capital has led a series A round for Korro Bio, whose RNA editing technology was developed at UChicago-affiliated Marine Biological Laboratory.

Commerce and payment services provider Interswitch has hired Tony Idugboe to head up its merger and acquisitions.

After 13 years heading up Schlumberger's corporate venturing activities, Iain Cooper has departed for a CEO position at gas emissions detection startup SeekOps.

After three years at Centrica, Jonathan Tudor has departed from its Centrica Innovations unit to join Clean Growth Investment Management's Clean Growth Fund.

IBM has hired former Accenture Ventures senior principal Pramila Mullan as partner and director of ecosystems and ventures.

Greenlight Re-backed business health insurance provider Sana secured $20.8m to take its funding to more than $27m altogether.

Debiopharm Innovation Fund and Crédit Mutuel Innovation co-led an $11.9m round for the digital pain management technology provider.

American Express, Interpublic, US Cellular and Verizon exited the advertising platform developer last year in an acquisition by NinthDecimal.

Stanford University is set to exit video telematics system developer SmartDrive, which has agreed to be purchased after raising at least $265m.

University of Utah's drug discovery technology producer has raised series D funding to increase its post-money valuation to some $1.2bn.