The corporate venturing units backing Alta in the round are: Energy Technology Ventures, a $300m corporate venturing joint venture launched in January by industrial conglomerate General Electric (GE), energy utility NRG Energy and oil major ConocoPhillips; power holding company Constellation Energy; Japan-based conglomerate Sumitomo's Presidio Ventures; and Dow Chemical's Dow Venture Capital.

Monsanto has agreed to take equity in and use Sapphire Energy's algae-based research to discover genes that could be applied to agriculture, particularly in the field of yield and stress.

A report distributed by Venture Nashville Connections said Genera Energy was raising money from third parties for its fund.

IPV Capital and Qian Neng Fund emerge from China to back US-based Amprius.

Family office Black Coral Capital led the round for Powerit Solutions with a consortium including Germany-based conglomerate Siemens, steel company ArcelorMittal's Clean Technology Fund, and venture capital firms @Ventures and Expansion Capital Partners.

Bright Capital, the corporate venturing unit of Russia-based industrial conglomerate Ru-Com Group, and US-listed transport company Waste Management are the two corporations in Genomatica's $45m round.

Jim Barry, chief executive of NTR, will be chief investment officer on the $110bn BlackRock Alternative Investors platform's new renewable power investment team.

1366 said it had raised $28.4m in total by adding GE Energy Financial Services, a division of US-listed industrial conglomerate General Electric, and venture capital (VC) firm VantagePoint Venture Partners to its previous consortium.

SmartSynch, an electricity equipment company, raises $25.7m from 26 investors in an interim close as part of a planned $33.4m round.

Wesley Chan, a partner at Google Ventures is listed as a director on Transphorm's latest regulatory filing as the company raised $20m in its C round.