Shell Foundation and Engie RDE Fund were among the participants in the biodigester technology provider's first notable round since it was founded nine years ago.

Each Friday the Global Corporate Venturing Deal Net rounds up the week’s smaller deals and tracks the emerging companies accessing corporate funds.

GUV editor Thierry Heles spoke to professionals from three fusion energy technology companies to gauge the challenges involved in scaling a breakthrough technology.

Jacqueline LeSage Krause of Munich Re Ventures and David Gilmour of BP Ventures are co-chairs of this year’s GCV Symposium, which is looking at how to navigate market turbulence.

Honda led an $11.1m round for the solar power battery and software developer that also featured existing investor Itochu.

The intelligent leak-detection technology developer has received an additional $6m from each of its corporate owners, Belkin and Uponor.

Each Friday the Global Corporate Venturing Deal Net rounds up the week’s smaller deals and tracks the emerging companies accessing corporate funds.

Alexander Hain has departed from Wincubator after nearly three years to take up a senior venture development manager position at Vattenfall’s open innovation unit, Greenfield.

One of GCV's 2019 Rising Stars, Andrea Course, has left her venture principal position at Schlumberger to take on the same role at Shell Ventures.

Evergy is set to exit utilities management software provider EnergySavvy in an acquisition by Tendril, following some $27m of funding.