Robert Hagerty joins IControl Networks after similar role at Polycom.

Wattbox's technology detects when homeowners are away through a smart meter and automatically adjusts the heating controls leading to a 15% decrease in energy and hot water costs.

Alongside BeCitizen, Cobepa and La Compagnie Benjamin de Rothschild, BeCapital has commitments from mostly European families with industrial backgrounds.

GE is launching its Ecomagination Challenge in China along with seven venture capital partners, together providing $100 million to back innovations in gas power, including natural gas, biogas, shale gas and coal bed methane gas.

Inge's investors included Siemens Venture Capital, the corporate venturing unit of local conglomerate Siemens, and venture capital firms BayTech Venture Capital, Emerald Technology Ventures, Entrepreneurs Fund, Stone Fund and Taprogge.

The financing was led by Energy Ventures, a Norway-based venture investment fund, and included investment bank Harris and Harris Group and a limited partnership comprised of Ohio-based industrialists.

The South Korean conglomerate has funded HelioVolt to the tune of $50m, with a view to expanding the firms activities on a global basis.

The program, which launches this month, will select Fellows from Edelman's team of more than 100 in San Francisco, with Debra Jack (pictured), executive vice president at Edelman and head of the San Francisco office's corporate, CSR and crisis communications practices, as the first Physic Fellow.