Our regular columnist Tom Whitehouse reflects on the
Global Corporate Venturing Symposium.

Tom Whitehouse, chairman of London Environmental Investment Forum and founder of Carbon International, explores trends in clean-tech.

1. Multicorporate venture capital firms make clean-tech sense
Zurich-based Emerald Technology Ventures and Vancouver-based Pangaea Ventures are two good examples of venture capital firms (VCs) with growing rosters of corporate limited partners (investors).

Emerald’s backers include Unilever, Volvo and ABB. Pangaea’s backers