Each Friday the Global Corporate Venturing Deal Net rounds up the week’s smaller deals and tracks the emerging companies accessing corporate funds.

Forward Investments, the corporate venturing vehicle sponsored by Dubai Electricity and Water Authority, provided an undisclosed amount for US-based infrastructure security software provider Nozomi Networks on Tuesday. Nozomi raised an undisclosed sum from Telefónica Innovation Ventures, a subsidiary of telecommunications firm Telefónica, in July this year, and had secured a total of nearly $54m from investors including power producer Invenergy’s Energize Ventures fund as of a $30m series C round in late 2018.

Axa Venture Partners, the venture…

Robert Lavine

Robert Lavine is special features editor for Global Venturing.