UMC Capital joins corporate venturing peers from industrial groups ABB and General Electric as well as financial investors Investor Growth Capital and VantagePoint Venture Partners in Trilliant's latest round.

Taiwan-based UMC Capital, the corporate venture arm of leading semiconductor foundry United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC), has invested in Trilliant, a US-based provider energy efficiency management systems.

UMC Capital joins corporate venturing peers from industrial groups ABB and General Electric as well as financial investors Investor Growth Capital and VantagePoint Venture Partners in Trilliant’s latest round.

Trilliant said it was opening a corporate office for the Asia Pacific market as UMC would help.

DC Cheng, president of UMC Capital, said:…