Energy

In August 2011, the energy division of US-based industrial conglomerate General Electric (GE) followed on from its licensing agreement with ESolar by making a strategic investment of up to $40m.

South Korea-based power company GS Power has made a direct investment into India-based renewable energy company NSL Renewable Power.

As corporations become increasingly open to external innovation and many of their own executives become angel investors themselves, there is a great opportunity to help the nascent start-ups.

In October 2011, Enlighted closed a $14.2m round of financing from Intel Capital, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Draper Fisher Jurvetson.

Clean Power Finance, an online platform that provides software and financial services to solar power professionals and investors, has raises $37m in funding.

Plant science company ZeaKal has raised $3.8m in series A financing from Finistere Ventures, Two Oceans and the Missouri Soybean Merchandising Council.

This is an analysis of the ten most active units and has attached the main data of our new quarterly reports, the first of which, a 12-page special, can be seen in full, in this month's magazine.

The corporate venturing unit of Anglo-Dutch consumer goods company Unilever has made plans to increase its assets under management with its latest $450m fund from its parent, Global Corporate Venturing can reveal.