Energy

Solaria closes series D round at $55, excluding a new $10m loan facility from debt provider Western Technologies (WTI).

Unilever has joined Solazyme's extended series D round, which last month saw Bunge and other strategic peers invest $51.6m in the renewable oil company.

Thirty-one companies on World Economic Forum's list of technology pioneers.

Lafarge to invest in UK-based cement company Novacem's innovative bond and series A round.

Andy Leventhal, previously co-founder and CEO of carbon information measurement company Planet Metrics replaces Pratap Mukherjee at Lowe's-backed Recurve.

Profile: Kaplan VC, which was launched as venturing division of Washington Post Company's education subsidiary Kaplan earlier this year.

REview of the transformation of South Africa's press between 1994 and 2004.

Profile: Naspers, a South Africa-based media conglomerate has become perhaps the country's most successful post-apartheid business on the back of a global diversification strategy through corporate venturing and acquisitions.

Case study: Smart Technologies shows how to successfully venture invest for more than a decade.

Profile of Steamboat Ventures, Disney's highly successful corporate venturing unit.

Case study of Disney, the world's largest media group's, acquisition of social gaming company Playdom from investors, including corporate venturing unit Steamboat Ventures.