Universal Commodity Exchange gains Rabobank among its investors

GreenVolts raises $22.4m from 19 investors out of a planned $38.8m round.

Before winning US Commerce Department award, Actacell raised $5.8m in July 2008 from Applied Ventures and venture capital firms DFJ Mercury and Good Energies as well as Google.org's RechargeIT programme to cut carbon dioxide.

Venture capital firm Energy Ventures joins Chesapeake in the $19.5m round for geological surveyor Wireless Seismic.

Mike Majors, an investment partner at Siemens Venture Capital, has joined the Encelium's board as part of its $11m round.

Venture capital firm Naxos Capital Partners led the $100m C round for Elevance Renewable Sciences, and was joined by Total Energy Ventures International and private equity firm TPG's biotech and growth funds.

BlackRock joins other members of LS9's D round: CTTV Investments, the corporate venturing unit of oil major Chevron's Technology Ventures subsidiary, and venture capital firms Flagship Ventures, Khosla Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

In a regulatory filing, 1366 Technologies raises $26m from nine investors, compared to a disclosed $20m from seven two months earlier that had expected to be the final amount committed.

Southwest Windpower starts next investment round.

Abound Solar raises $110m from oil group BP and other consortium members, as well as $400m in a state loan.