National Grid Partners (NGP), the corporate venturing and innovation unit of London and New York-listed electricity provider National Grid, has made three new deals.

NGP is investing in CNIGuard, an internet-of-things (IoT) cloud sensor provider for utility-critical infrastructure, SparkCognition, an artificial intelligence (AI) systems platform, and Uniphore, an AI-enabled conversational service automation.

Earlier in the month, US-based SparkCognition closed a $100m series C round with backing from aerospace and defence company Boeing and media group Hearst, while India-based Uniphore received $51m in August…

James Mawson

James Mawson is founder and chief executive of Global Venturing.