The security company Prosegur is very active in buying companies. Three of its last four acquisitions were confirmed in December 2018, in an interval of less than a week. Below are the operations that have been taking place in the Spanish company.
Investments in the health robot sector
In October 2018, the Basque company Cyber Surgery closed a €4 million financing round. Several organisations have participated in this investment, which in our field of corporate finance we assimilate or categorise as a sale of companies, as they sell part of their capital. We analyse the operation in detail and also mention some of the most recent operations in the sector at a global level.
Sale of Internet service companies
From the corporate finance perspective, we analyse some of the sales of internet services companies confirmed in 2018. We talk about a generalised sector, where a client can obtain mailing services, FTP, Telnet or telephony services, among others. In this post we talk about the Spanish operator Excom, which ended the year with a triple acquisition, and other sales operations worldwide.
How Vista Equity Partners values Apptio
We start this new year 2019 with a company valuation post. We talk about FinTech Apptio and its recent acquisition by Vista Equity Partners.
Buying companies in the chatbot sector
We talk about the purchase of Chatbot companies, a programme based on Artificial Intelligence that simulates a conversation with the user. The best known by all of us is Apple's Siri, but there are many more in the world. We are going to analyse some of the purchases that have been made in this sector in 2018.
Purchasing logistics software companies
Today we analyse the purchases of companies in the logistics software sector that have taken place in 2018. We talk about a software that is key in many organisations because it facilitates the management of stock storage or shipping tasks, among others.
We would mainly like to highlight the purchase operation carried out between two Spanish companies, Visual Trans and Empuries Logística.
Sale of companies in the cybersecurity sector
In our new company sales analysis we are going to focus on cybersecurity. We talk about a booming sector motivated by the increase in attacks suffered on the network. The massive multiplication of data and hackers force certain companies to try to avoid losses or malicious theft. From our area of corporate finance we are going to talk about 5 companies that have been sold in 2018 in the sector and the sale operation.
Acquisition of IT companies in India
We expose the most relevant technology companies buying in India in 2018. The Asian country has become an emerging economy that offers many and varied business opportunities. In this post we talk about Bygging India Limited, Mswipe Technologies, Embibe and Flipkart.
Buying companies for recruitment
We will analyse the acquisition of companies in the recruitment sector in 2018. We are going to focus in part on companies that run their identification processes in technology jobs, such as technicians or programmers.
Buying companies in insurance digitisation
We analyse the purchase of companies in the insurance digitalisation sector. We talk about a booming sector with future applications in various fields, generating trends or market expectations. In addition to company acquisitions, we also explain the most recent round of financing confirmed in the sector.
SAP buys Qualtrics
In our analysis of company acquisitions, today we wanted to focus on the multinational SAP. On 11 November, the German company's investment to acquire Qualtrics, a developer of business software, was confirmed.
In which venture capital firms is Vista Equity Partners investing?
Vista Equity Partners is a world-renowned venture capital firm that focuses on financing technology companies. Its investment power is so high that in the last two months it has acquired three companies in the sector. In this post we are going to talk about the companies that have been bought and the reasons why Vista Equity has decided to carry out these operations.