Canadian venture capital firm Chrysalix Energy Venture Capital has put an undisclosed amount of money into MineSense Technologies Ltd. The North Vancouver, British Columbia-based company is a provider of sensor-based sorting systems to pre-concentrate low-grade ores in the metal mining industry. In February 2013, MineSense received an investment from SD Tech Fund, managed by Sustainable Development Technology Canada.

Venture investors put $6.46 billion to work during the year, down from $9.61 billion in 2011, the Cleantech Group reports. The number of deals came in at 704, which was down 15% from a year earlier…

Chrysalix Energy Venture Capital says it has seen about a 75% increase in the value of its third fund since the fund kicked off four years ago. The Vancouver VC offered the assessment in an end-of-year press release that said it completed 18 follow-on portfolio companies financings during 2012. It also made a new investment in the wastewater treatment company Axine Water Technologies. Chrysalix Energy III is a $123 million early stage fund with a first close in 2008, according to Thomson Reuters, publisher of this blog. The firm offered no additional details on the fund’s performance.

Chrysalix Energy Venture Capital, last week announced a significant expansion of its global cleantech investment network in a push for global reach.

Chrysalix Energy Venture Capital said it launched a global network of independent, locally managed venture capital firms targetting cleantech investing. The Chrysalix Global Network reaches across three continents.

Axine Water Technologies said it raised a round of financing led by Chrysalix Energy Venture Capital and joined by the Business Development Bank of Canada’s venture capital arm. The company has a technology for treating toxic organic pollutants in waste water. PRESS RELEASE Chrysalix Invests in Breakthrough Wastewater Treatment Company Axine Water Technologies on Path [...]

Bridgelux, hoping to leapfrog competitors in the LED lighting business, is pioneering a new technology for LED chip making and betting the company on its success. The company that has received $296 million in venture funding took another step toward that goal by announcing a key deal with its new technology partner Toshiba

Cleantech is out of favor. Sure, Nuventix just raised another $6.9 million, and Accel this week put $6.7 million into Vigilent, with the help of several angels. But even as startups such as BrightSource Energy appear to press ahead with IPOs, Enphase Energy this morning cut the expected price of its offering to between $6 and $7 a share.

Chrysalix said it signed three new strategic limited partners to its CELP III Fund. They are SABIC, Royal Dutch Shell, and a large European industrial group to be disclosed this spring. The new LPs will give CELP III additional money to strengthen the fund’s portfolio, especially important during a recessionary period, the venture firm said. [...]

Agilyx Corp. said it raised $25 million in a Series C round led by Keating Capital and joined by existing investors Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, Saffron Hill Ventures, Waste Management, Total Energy Ventures International, Chrysalix Energy Venture Capital and Reference Capital.  Agilyx of Beaverton, Oregon., is working on a process to convert waste plastic [...]