Chrysalix Venture Capital's RoboValley fund has secured Mitsubishi Corporation, Severstal, Teck Resources and Petronas as LPs as it aims for a $120m final close.

Kaloyan Andonov of GCV spoke to Geert van de Wouw, vice-president at Shell Ventures, the venturing subsidiary of Anglo-Dutch oil and gas major Shell about the future of energy and how the rebranded venturing arm under his command tackles it.

A range of new materials and technologies could yield vastly improved batteries for purposes including electric vehicles and grid storage.

Sector report: Energy

The following is a snapshot of the data we have collected on investment activity over the past three months. To verify reported deals, we contact about 300 corporate investors each quarter – these comprise roughly 18% of the global CVCs we cover, but account for most of the deals that are made public.

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

Sabic Ventures and Total Energy Ventures were among the existing investors in a Lake Bridge Capital-led round raised in advance of the release of MTPV's heat-to-energy technology.

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

Invenergy Future Fund has been rebranded as Energize Ventures and closed a $150m fund that includes GE, Schneider Electric and WEC Energy as LPs.

China National Petroleum Corporation and Climate Investments have co-anchored a vehicle that will back developers of emissions-reduction technology for the energy and industrial sectors.