Moves in VC: week of august 9 - august 15. This week's Moves in VC contains 20 moves and 10 new fund announcements, compiled from 40+ sources. Icymi. Graham Littlehale joined Felicis as a Partner. Graham previously worked at Point72 Ventures as a Partner. Eastern Venture5 Media. Brandon Gleklen was promoted to Partner at Battery Ventures, the firm he joined straight out of college. Alyssa Reisner, Justin Brock, Alex James, and Andrea Messina were promoted to VPs and General Partners at CVS Health Ventures. CVS Health Ventures focuses on early-stage healthcare companies. Dhruv Vasishtha joined 25madison as a Partner. Dhruv previously worked at 25m Health as an Operating Partner. 25madison invests in AI-native technology companies. Josh Beinhacker joined Newlab as a Senior Director of Investments. Josh previously worked at Torch Capital as the Head of Operations. Newlab is a venture platform for technology startups. Yuan Liu joined Bosch Ventures as an Investment Director. Yuan previously worked at CEN as a Director of Ventures. Austin Martin was promoted to Principal at Optum Ventures. Optum Ventures focuses on early-stage healthcare companies. Allison Toman joined Norwest as a Principal. Allison previously worked at Medtronic as a Venture Capital Director. Interested in having your job posting featured here? Western Venture5 Media. Ashish Aggarwal joined IronArc Ventures as a Partner. Ashish previously worked at Chamaeleon as a Partner. IronArc Ventures is a venture capital firm focusing on AI companies. Bryan Faust joined Roche Venture Fund as an Investment Director. Bryan previously worked at Andreessen Horowitz as a Bio + Health Investment Partner. Roche Venture Fund is an early-stage fund focusing on therapeutics, diagnostics, and healthtech companies. Iris Chen joined Bridge Ventures as a Director. Iris previously worked at Aurum Venture Partners as a Private Equity and Venture Capital Senior Analyst. Bridge Ventures is a single-family office that invests in early-stage companies. Christopher Wan left his role as a Vice President at Bessemer Venture Partners. Christopher joined Ivo as a Product Manager. Madi Bradley joined Healthier Capital as a Vice President. Madi previously worked at Healthy Ventures as a Vice President. Healthier Capital invests in technology-powered healthcare innovators. Southern Venture5 Media. Francisco Rivera joined Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures (NMFV) as a Strategic Investing Principal. Francisco previously worked at USAA as a Corporate Development Assistant Vice President. NMFV, the corporate venture capital arm of Northwestern Mutual, backs early-stage companies in fintech and insurtech. Europe. Hunter McNabb joined Index Ventures as a Partner. Hunter previously worked at 9Yards Capital as a General Partner. Alinga Jiang joined Creandum on the Platform team. Alinga previously worked at ElevenLabs in Revenue Strategy and Operations. Jakob Falck was promoted to Partner at Norrsken Launcher. Norrsken Launcher is an early-stage deep tech impact fund. Middle east. Andrew Jackson joined B Capital as a General Partner and Chief AI Officer. Andrew previously worked at G42 as a Group Chief AI Officer. New funds. These firms are ready to write checks, with new funds recently closed. San Francisco-based South Park Commons announced its fourth $575M fund. Palo Alto-based Accel raised $3.5B across four new funds to invest in global AI startups. Menlo Park-based Sequoia Capital raised $10B to focus on AI and reindustrialization investments. Brooklyn-based Kickstarter launched a $1M Kickstarter Culture Fund to support independent creators in arts, fashion, film, and music. New York-based Serena Ventures launched a new fund to invest in tech and AI-enabled companies. The fund amount was undisclosed. London-based White Star Capital closed its fourth $250M fund to back technology companies. London-based Mobilise announced the launch of Mobilise Platforms & Investments, a new division created to support telecom technology businesses. Toronto-based Cross-Border Impact Ventures (CBIV) raised $58M for its second fund to invest in health technology companies. Chicago-based G Squared closed its seventh $2.3B fund to invest across direct secondaries, company-led tender offers, structured investments, and growth-stage technology companies. Menlo Park-based Robinhood launched a $200M fund to back Y Combinator startups. For emerging managers. Join over 3,000 VC professionals receiving key legal insights by Chris Harvey. Discover the "Law of VC" Substack with free checklists, forms, and guides. Stay tuned for next week's Moves in VC!

JERA partners with Newlab New Orleans to advance low-concentration CO[2] capture technologies. BY JERA JERA Co., Inc., through its venture capital arm JERA Ventures, has entered a partnership with Newlab New Orleans to accelerate development of carbon capture technologies targeting low-concentration CO[2] emissions from power generation. Newlab New Orleans, a public-private innovation hub focused on energy and industrial technologies, will work with JERA to evaluate point-source capture (PSC) solutions suited for emissions from combined-cycle gas turbines. Such emissions present a technical challenge, as lower CO[2] concentrations make conventional capture methods inefficient and costly. The partners said next-generation PSC technologies are essential to enabling scalable decarbonization of gas-fired power systems. Under the agreement, JERA and Newlab will identify promising PSC startups, conduct proof-of-concept testing under real-world industrial conditions and, by 2026, select one technology for deeper development and potential commercialization. The collaboration includes advancing candidates into pilot planning and undertaking engineering and partnership work needed to prepare for deployment at gas-fired power plants. Leaders from both organizations emphasized the global relevance of the effort. Takeshi Kodama, head of JERA Ventures, said the partnership will help validate breakthrough technologies in industrial settings and lay the groundwork for commercial-scale projects across JERA's global markets. Sahil Jain, vice president of strategy at Newlab, said Louisiana's industrial corridor offers ideal conditions to test emerging PSC solutions on authentic flue gas profiles. The initiative builds on JERA's ongoing investments in Louisiana's energy sector, including its development of a large low-carbon ammonia facility, its stake in the 300-megawatt Oxbow Solar Farm, upstream shale gas assets in the Haynesville basin and long-term LNG offtake. Together, the companies said, these efforts reflect a commitment to advancing practical decarbonization technologies for the power sector.