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…

Robert Lavine

Robert Lavine is special features editor for Global Venturing.