Energy

The creative studio and 01Booster’s four-month joint venture will help grow the entrepreneurial ecosystem in the Japanese city of Fukushima and environs.

The online home insurer raised a series E round backed by a host of corporate venture investors.

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

The real estate investment manager is now the largest investor in Harel Group-backed Ecoppia, which provides solar-panel cleaning systems.

Two fintech companies floated in early July 2020, giving an exit to corporate backers in what has been a good year for the sector.

The EV battery producer has gone public in China, weeks after raising $193m in a round featuring strategic partner Daimler.

Exelon has chosen 10 climate change mitigation startups that will receive an initial $1m in funding as part of a $20m scheme.

Warsaw Stock Exchange subsidiary GPW Ventures has teamed up with Poland’s National Centre for Agricultural Support for a fund that will manage an initial $6.6m.

The sustainable forestry wood provider will use the funding to expand further into East Africa and bolster its wood manufacturing resources.

The biofuel provider has launched Euglena Sustainable Ventures to invest in bioinformatics, direct-to-consumer and healthcare technology developers.

Monthly analysis: June 2020