In 2016, virtual reality and augmented reality companies attracted $$1.8B from investors. If in 2015 we saw the beginning of a wave of investment rounds in the sector, doubling the number of operations, in 2016 the number of operations has continued to grow, reaching 171 rounds, and the average amount of the rounds has doubled in 2016.
The Sap market is an already consolidated market, in which one of the main ways to grow is through acquisitions. In recent years we have seen several operations involving Spanish companies. On the other hand, SAP is making purchases in new technologies such as the internet of things or big data, in order to be able to offer better and more innovative services.
Inkemia, a Mab company in the biotechnology sector, increases capital to continue growing on the international market and does not rule out making acquisitions in 2017.
Tricentis, a global leader in enterprise software testing, enabling companies to achieve high automation rates and minimise risk, has received a $165M round led by Insight Venture Partners.
GMV will take a stake in the company and will participate in the development of its launchers, with this investment it unlocks a €6M financing.
It is understood that the Virtual Repositories are becoming more common in our days. In contrast to their competitors, they can be proud of the higher protection level and offer you a bigger range of tools. Normally, they are experienced and are able to busy themselves with multifarious industries, but it is not always the case. There is a multiplicity of Virtual Data Room Providers and eventually, it raises different obstacles. At the first gaze, it seems that they are all identical but actually, they are really different. And so, we took a resolution to call the most agreeable and suggest you the approaches for deciding on them.
China's Shiji has paid €26M for the Spanish company, which operates globally, ReviewPro. The company offers Online Reputation Management (ORM) and Hotel Satisfaction Surveys (GSS) applications that allow hoteliers to gain a better understanding of their strengths and weaknesses.
Logtrust, a Spanish company specialising in real-time Big Data solutions, has received a round of funding in order to continue growing globally. Investors include Kibo Ventures, Investing Profit Wisely and Atlantic Bridge.
After gathering information about the economic and technological results achieved by the companies that have participated in the first 5 Innterconecta calls, we summarise the results obtained.
Although there is still a long way to go, the e-health sector in Spain is taking off. The number of Spanish startups in the e-health sector grew by 53% in 2015. The challenge now is for these companies to have the resources to grow. At the moment, the companies that...
The ciberemprende 2016 programme closed this week with the Venture Day, which was attended by a hundred investors, entrepreneurs and cybersecurity professionals. The winners of the programme were Techvolucion and Keynetic. But not only the acceleration programmes have been successful, this year we have detected large rounds in Spanish cybersecurity companies and acquisitions by international companies.
2016 has been a good year for Spanish M&A. The number of M&A transactions has grown by 20% this year, exceeding €100,000M in 2016 through more than 1,600 transactions. This is largely due to the confidence of foreign investors in our country.
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