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.

The solid-state battery developer has closed a series A round that included Hyundai, Samsung, Solvay, Sanoh Industrial and A123 Systems.

CLP, Innogy, Tenaska, Eon and Orsted have taken part in the round that increased the energy management software developer's overall funding to $75m.

The oil and gas provider, which already runs the $500m Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures unit, is reportedly mulling plans for a larger fund.

Eight researchers from Cambridge have raised a $129m patient capital fund that has attracted limited partners including Aviva.

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

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

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