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.

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.