Corporate venturing units GE Energy Financial Services and Verizon Ventures, semiconductor manufacurer Qualcomm and energy company Constellation Energy back Consert.

Consert, a US-based energy management company formerly known as Cleartricity, said it was in advanced talks with undisclosed potential buyers for an acquisition before the end of the year, according to news provider CleanTech Group.

It raised $7m in October last year and a further $5m in April, according to filings made with the US Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC) and $17.7m, in June 2010, from corporate venturing units GE Energy Financial Services and Verizon Ventures, semiconductor manufacurer Qualcomm and…