Each Friday the Global Corporate Venturing Deal Net rounds up the week’s smaller deals and tracks the emerging companies accessing corporate funds.
Akselos, a Switzerland-based developer of software that predicts the maintenance requirements of oil and gas assets, has closed a $10m funding round led by Innogy Ventures, the strategic investment vehicle for energy utility Innogy. The round included petroleum supplier Shell’s corporate venturing unit, Shell Ventures, and follows a $2.2 seed round in September 2016 featuring Forticap and a grant from the Swiss Government. The company’s other existing investors include Castor Ventures.
Dugstore retailer Walgreens paid an undisclosed sum for a…