In-Q-Tel managing partner George Hoyem discussed disinformation campaigns carried out through artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies in recent years with Graphika CEO John Kelly and UC Berkeley professor Hany Farid.

Venture capital fund Big Idea Ventures has hired former GCV Rising Star and Tyson Ventures CFO Tom Mastrobuoni as a venture partner.

MDI Ventures’ acting chief executive, Setyanto Hantoro, has shifted to managing director of another Telkom Indonesia subsidiary, Telkomsel.

Vinay Trivedi has left SoftBank Investment Advisers, the manager of SoftBank Vision Fund, and joined General Atlantic as a vice-president to oversee growth-stage tech investments.

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After five years focusing on life sciences investments for GV, Vineeta Agarwala has taken a general partner role at Andreessen Horowitz.

GCV Powerlist mainstay Reese Schroeder has joined Allstate Strategic Ventures as an investor after nearly three years at Tyson Ventures and over a decade at Motorola Solutions Venture Capital.

Victor Pascucci, who counts USAA and Munich Re among his corporate venturing stops, has put together an energy-focused VC firm called Energy Capital Ventures.

Prolific company builder Nathalie Gaveau has joined the US-based professional services firm’s corporate innovation and incubation division as a managing director and partner.

The AI-powered esports tournament platform developer raised the cash in an Intel Capital-led round after spinning off from BlueStacks.

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Smoking cessation service Carrot has hired Busy Burr as president and CEO, months after she left Humana after setting up its corporate venturing arm.

University of Oxford held its inaugural artificial intelligence-focused conference last month, bringing together investors and the world’s foremost researchers in the area.

İskender Dirik has taken on a managing director role at Samsung Next following corporate venturing stints at Bauer Media and Microsoft.

Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America has hired Steve Agirman as director of new ventures after four years of corporate venturing at Schneider Electric.

Newly formed corporate venturing unit Marubeni Ventures has hired Hiroki Eda, formerly of DG Incubation, as managing director.

Declan Kelly, formerly a founding partner at venture firm Amaranthine Partners, has joined the Germany-based investment team at accelerator Techstars.

Tiffine Wang has departed from a senior investment manager role at Singtel Innov8 for a partner position at fellow corporate VC unit MS&AD Ventures.

The unit has hired EquityZen co-founder Shriram Bhashyam as its latest entrepreneur in residence in order to coach employees developing financial technology.

Twitter has led a $100m series D round for social media app ShareChat that valued the multilingual social network operator at $650m.