Energy

The top 25: #7 Deborah Hopkins, Citi Ventures

The top 25: #6 Hugo Shong, IDG Capital Partners

This is our Powerlist 2014 profile of corporate venturing industry icon Fan Munce, who we reveal today is retiring from IBM.

The top 25: #3 Charles Searle, Naspers

We republish our article for our last Powerlist, when outgoing Qualcomm Ventures head Nagraj Kashyap came second in the definitive list of the most important people in corporate venturing.

Impossible Foods, which is creating plant-based food meat substitutes, has emerged from stealth with $75m of funding from backers including Google.

The fund, formed by France-based utility GDF Suez in May, is focusing on decentralised energy and energy efficiency technology as traditional power generation loses its lustre.

Aquion Energy, a manufacturer of energy storage systems, has raised $24.6m in funding, a recent filing has revealed.

The water purification company's existing investors include Dow, Coca-Cola and Tata.

Total and DuPont both contributed to a $22m round for the company, which develops crops that can be used as biofuel feedstock.