Energy

Alstom invested $75m in BrightSource's E round, in addition to $55m committed last year as part of a $176m D round.

P&G cleans up with a decade of Connect+Develop

Preparing for a new thrust into emerging markets and moving to an evergreen funding structure.

Let there be growth...greater population brings more consumers but faster pace of changes requires companies to use corporate venturing to keep up.

A whole country in just half a state

Reasons European venture capital struggles compares to US peers laid bare: the latter caters to the entrepreneur.

In respect of seed and venture capital (VC) funding, Heinz Oyrer posed the statement "The European market is more or less dead but the US is still open" to members of the European Entrepreneurship & Innovation @ Silicon Valley LinkedIn group.

The journey Plastic Logic has taken from a research laboratory in Cambridge, UK, to a new special economic zone just outside Moscow, Russia, via the US, Germany and a swathe of investors from all avenues and geographies says much about how technological innovation is developed and funded in a globalised world.

The below table provides the most influential corporate venturing units for companies in the consumer sector.

The below table summarises March 2011's deal activity with a corporate venturing involvement. For full coverage on each deal every day as well as all other news, visit the rest of www.globalcorporateventuring.com