Energy

The Monsanto-backed biofuel producer has raised $65m from its initial public offering after revising its share price further downwards.

If Warren Buffett's maxim to be "greedy when others are fearful" is correct, these corporates will be well rewarded for staying the course.

A international syndicate of corporates and venture investors join various US public bodies supporting the energy storage company.

J Sainsbury joins the Prince of Wales' private estate backing the waste to energy company led by Alan Lovell, previously chief executive of UK-based renewable energy producer Infinis.

Nasdaq-listed Zipcar is the latest beneficiary of venture funding to turn to corporate venturing, leading a $13.7m round for the peer-to-peer car sharing company.

Corporate venturing unit Chesapeake NG Ventures seals its latest deal with 3M, to work together on compressed natural gas tanks, after the gas company unveiled a $1bn fund last year.

The level of corporate participation in the venture industry is welcomed by industry insiders although one market commentator warns the numbers could point to the end approaching in the latest technology cycle.

The round raised by the thin-film solar company follows its bumper $300m round in 2008, with a top tier syndicate including an EDF unit, private equity firm Riverstone and a unit of AES Corporation.

The coal conversion company backed by Dow Chemical, AES Corporation and Suncor Energy reportedly lands a $420m fourth round of funding in the largest Chinese US VC deal.

The industrial conglomerate and the organisation partner together on a pan-European basis in the latest tie-up by GE's Ecomagination Challenge, through which the company and partners have committed $134m.

Multinational investment connections behind Russia's latest corporate venturing deals.