The solid state battery company, backed by Intel, Texas Instruments, Bekaert and Dow Chemical, plans to raise up to $7m more in the first half of 2016.

Cleantech analyst Edouard Bulteau has moved up to investment manager at Total Energy Ventures, the corporate venturing arm of oil and gas company Total.

Hanwha-backed solar module maker Ten K Solar has now raised more than $77m in financing after securing $25m from a Goldman Sachs alternative energy fund.

Fabien Mondini, Sabic Ventures' senior investment manager in Europe since 2012, has left its parent company, chemicals and advanced materials producer Sabic.

The Canada-based energy companies will each provide $50m in the next 10 years to a fund called Evok Innovations, which will fund cleaner oil and gas technology.

The power transmission equipment supplier raised the cash from investors including China General Nuclear Power and Hongta Tobacco.

Monsanto Growth Ventures, which invests from seed-stage onwards, has backed 11 companies operating in the US, Spain and Estonia.

The solar energy system installer has raised $50m in a GE Ventures-backed equity round and an additional $600m in project finance.