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Omron Ventures absorbs Inoue

Tomoko Inoue, formerly senior manager at MedVenture Partners, joined corporate venturing unit Omron Ventures as chief executive earlier this year.

Swati Dasgupta, a director at Siemens unit Next47, has taken the same role at another corporate investment arm, National Grid Ventures.

Leonard Lee, formerly global head of new business models and services for Airbus, has taken a partner position at Silk Ventures.

Chad Gardner has departed from Modumetal to join Energy Innovation Capital.

Rumi Morales, head of CME Group unit CME Ventures from 2013 to 2017, has joined blockchain-focused Outlier Ventures as a partner.

Cory Steffek, a US-based managing director for Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures, has taken an MD role at private equity investment platform Ara.

Oshri Kaplan, formerly venture partner at Silicon Foundry until June , has taken an investment director position at Munich Re/HSB Ventures.

Susana Quintana-Plaza, formerly a partner at Siemens’ Next47 vehicle after seven years at Eon, has left the unit.

Nobutake Suzuki, former partner at Global Brain, has returned to Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group as a managing director.

The motion control technology producer has set up an $85m corporate venturing unit, Nabtesco Technology Ventures, with Emerald Technology Ventures.

Heather Preston, formerly managing director at TPG Biotech, has taken a managing partner position at Nan Fung-backed Pivotal BioVenture Partners.

Google’s Gradient Ventures led a round that boosted the total raised by app testing technology developer Test.ai to $18m.

Faisal Rehman has become the latest ex-Deutsche Bank executive to join SoftBank Vision Fund, where he will head Middle Eastern investments.

Tony Chao, senior investment director and general manager of Applied Ventures has accepted a partner position at Tyche Partners.