The spinout of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill raises $1.6m to bring its water loss monitoring system to clients across the US.

Robert Bosch's corporate venturing unit recently launched a $170m third fund, and China and agribusiness startups are on the menu, according to managing director Ingo Ramesohl.

Imperial Innovations reinvests in Imperial College London spinout Inflowmatix in a $4.3m series A round that also gained investment from Parkwalk Advisors.

Stanford-backed Autogrid, an energy management software developer, increased its overall funding to more than $40m.

Statoil's newly formed $200m cleaner energy-focused fund will look to build up a portfolio of 15 to 25 companies in the next four to seven years, according to SEV managing director Gareth Burns.

Sector Focus: Energy and utilities

Global Corporate Venturing tracked six direct investments linked to oil and gas corporate venturing units. There was also one undisclosed fund investment by Chevron Technology Ventures, the sponsor of our research, and an exit by Statoil Technology Ventures.

3D metal printing company MatterFab has raised approximately $5.8m in a series A round featuring General Electric's corporate venturing unit.