Energy

Brazil-based fintech companies have been on the news in recent times, showing the potential of the South American country’s ecosystem.

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

Household energy monitor developer Sense has expanded its overall funding to almost $39m in a round backed by Schneider Electric and existing investors Shell and iRobot.

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

The recycling-focused Closed Loop Fund has secured funding from Amazon, following earlier commitments by a host of other corporates.

Equinor is among the limited partners for ArcTern Ventures' second cleantech fund, which has reached a first close on the way to a target of about $115m.

Chrysalix Venture Capital's RoboValley fund has secured Mitsubishi Corporation, Severstal, Teck Resources and Petronas as LPs as it aims for a $120m final close.

Kaloyan Andonov of GCV spoke to Geert van de Wouw, vice-president at Shell Ventures, the venturing subsidiary of Anglo-Dutch oil and gas major Shell about the future of energy and how the rebranded venturing arm under his command tackles it.

This is our data snapshot based on last month’s investment activity. 
The charts and tables have been generated by our data platform GCV Analytics.

University and government venturing successes fail to attract significant corporate interest