US-based energy efficiency provider Powerit closes a $5.5m Series C round led by Black Coral Capital.

Intel Capital is a long-term backer of Ireland-based digital power company Powervation.

Israel Corporation, the Israel-based holding company, has led part of a planned $100m investment into US and Israel-based electric car company Better Place, a company which operate a network of stations to recharge the batteries of electric cars.

Richard Nourse (pictured), managing partner of the renamed Greencoat, is one of those selected in our list of the hundred most powerful people in corporate venturing, the Powerlist 100.

The new investors included US power utility Southern California Gas Company, industrial group 3M and undisclosed strategic investors.

Between 2007 and 2009, Coyle was chief executive of DeepFlex, which raised more than $35m in venture capital.