Globalleida: entrepreneurs with Lleida origins
GlobaLleida is an inter-institutional consortium in the province of Lleida that presented last week (28/01/2014) a fund of private equity for invest in companies and entrepreneurs who carry out their professional activity in the counties of Lleida.
The aim of the presentation, which took place in the Hotel Majestic of Barcelona, was to solicit participation in the fund from 20 entrepreneurs who have a personal or family link to Lleida but live in Barcelona. Among those invited to the event were representatives of companies such as Natural Gas, Comsa Emte, Mediapro, Panrico, Resa, Harley Davidson and FC Barcelonaamong others, and institutions such as the Economy Circle, Labour Promotion and Pimec.
Between €1M and €1.5M is what its promoters, represented by the president of the Ros Roca group, Ramon Roca, the president of the Diputació de Lleida, Joan Reñé, and the mayor of the capital of the Ponent, Àngel Ros, expect to get for this fund. The intention is to promote companies in the technology, phytosanitary and agricultural industry sectors. The president of Repsol and GlobaLleida, Antonio Brufau -natural de Mollerussa (Pla d’Urgell)- pronunció el discurso inicial del acto.
Al Andalus: Andalusian businessmen investing in Andalusia
Andalusian entrepreneurs investing in Andalusia. This is the philosophy of Al Andalus Capital, a new venture capital fund. private equity managed by High Capital y que cuenta con una dotación inicial de €10,5M. ‘Los partícipes del fondo somos empresarios y directivos de Andalucía que creen en las posibilidades de las compañías de aquí’, señala Mariano Muñoz, socio director de la consultora ETEO and representative of the four investors in Al Andalus.
Principalmente buscan compañías con capacidad de exportación, firmas que tienen problemas de sucesión empresarial o con un problema puntual de circulante. Además Al Andalus busca pymes andaluzas, con planes sólidos de crecimiento, un buen equipo de gestión y la compañía debe estar consolidada porque no entramos en etapas iniciales. Al Andalus no es capital semilla, ni hace refinanciaciones’. Eso sí, se descartan los sectores inmobiliario y financiero porque la normativa legal lo impide.
Castilla León: a partnership of investors with local links
The association of investment private sector promoted by entrepreneurs Alentia Alternative Capital started in October 2013 with 71 founding partners from Castilla y León, Asturias, Galicia, Catalonia and Madrid, with an investment capacity of €7M. Alentia is not a venture capital company, so there is no fund to manage. The partners will provide the funds at the time when, once the investment operations have been analysed and presented, they decide individually and freely whether or not to participate in the project. investment.