The Global Corporate Venturing deal net rounds up investments from across the corporate innovation ecosystem.

Funding

AI

RO Capital Partners, real estate developer RO Group’s corporate venturing arm, led an £870,000 ($1m) round today for InferSens, a UK-based developer of artificial intelligence-equipped water monitoring technology. Oxford Innovation Fund and Bruce Melizan filled out the participants.

Agtech

Naspers Foundry, the early-stage investment arm of e-commerce and media group Naspers, has led an R83m ($5.1m) round for Nile, the South Africa-based operator of an online platform that helps match farmers with retailers. The unit provided $2.5m through…

Edison Fu

Edison Fu is a reporter and Asia liaison at Global Corporate Venturing.