Hong Kong venture capital fund Beyond Ventures has joined with Linear Capital of Shanghai to lead a US$9 million investment that will benefit forestry in national parks and other natural resources all over the world.
They are funding Insight Robotics, which pursues a mission to facilitate risk management of the world’s assets by generating and making sense of data.
Other entities involved are Brizan Investments co-founded by Professor Ping K Ko, former Dean of the School of Engineering at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Insight Robotics optimizes management of forestry, agricultural land and oil palm plantations. It provides intelligence based on multispectral and spatial data from aerial and terrestrial sensors to facilitate early detection of man-made and natural…