IC Green Energy backs the bio-fuels company, which is looking for other strategic investors to bring its gas-to-fuel conversion technology to market.

In this world, and future ones of potential products derived from the operation of sentiment machines able to learn, could be sparked the next wave of productivity and economic growth.

Life Technologies Corporation and Flint Hills Resources-backed SG Biofuels has raised $26.4m across two rounds.

Mitsui helps the US-based plastics company raise $13.6m, saying the company had "great potential to provide a paradigm shift" in many industries

Tate & Lyle Ventures invests again, having backed the company since 2007, while BASF Venture Capital takes more than two thirds of the latest round.

Acting as a magnet for entrepreneurs for Germany-based industrial parent Robert Bosch.

Corporates investing in clean-tech often invest in the sector because they believe it is consistent with their core business.

Saab spins out ventures success story