Geothermal heating and cooling system provider Dandelion Energy received $16m in a Comcast Ventures-led round that included GV and Lennar.

The conglomerate has paid approximately $256m for a 20% stake in smart energy distributor and technology provider Ovo Energy.

The corporate venturing units of Semapa and KPN have contributed to Armilar's TechTransfer Fund, which has raised almost $51m on its way to a target of about $68m.

Corporate venturing vehicles Danone Manifesto Ventures and ADM Ventures both took part in a series A round for the Nasa spinoff, which is developing edible proteins.

Partech Africa has achieved a final close of $143m with limited partners including Orange, Edenred, JCDecaux, Bertelsmann, L’Oréal, Axian Group and Texaf.

Each Friday the Global Corporate Venturing Deal Net rounds up the week’s smaller deals and tracks the emerging companies accessing corporate funds.

Dentsu, Sega Sammy, Tokai Holdings, Marui and SBI all participated in a $10.7m round for the Japanese distributed energy marketplace.

Maana recently won GCV’s inaugural award for energy-tech corporate venture capital (CVC) investment of the year, presented during its Venture Houston conference in November. Now, Maana has gone one-stage further and won the Sub-$50m Investment of the Year award across all industries.

In May last year, Severstal announced the launch of Severstal Ventures – a corporate venture fund that would invest directly as well as through other funds in advanced materials and associated technologies, in Russia and abroad.

Mitsui and Equinor Energy Ventures were among the participants in a series A round that will help fund the development of 300 MW of distributed solar energy systems.