Nazca Capital and Kibo Ventures, raise funds to invest in Spanish companies. Nazca is focused on companies between €30M and €200M in sales and Kibo Ventures on early stage digital startups.

Nazca Capital and Kibo Ventures, raise funds to invest in Spanish companies. Nazca is focused on companies between €30M and €200M in sales and Kibo Ventures on early stage digital startups.
Hexagon is a Swedish company, a leading international IT provider that drives quality and productivity improvements through applications for geospatial and industrial companies. It has a subsidiary, which offers software-based information technology solutions that improve quality and productivity, based on measurement equipment.
This week we have met two Spanish companies 4IQ and Red Points, which have received investment rounds, led by foreign investors to continue their expansion worldwide. 4iQ closes a funding round of $14M 4Iq, a startup from Madrid, is...
52 companies are participating in the development of these projects, 69.21% of which are SMEs. Eleven of the 51 projects closed in September belong to the field of ICTs. Another significant fact is that of the total number of companies involved, 23, i.e. 44%, are receiving Cdti funding for the first time.
FoodChéri, a self-catering virtual restaurant that makes fresh and healthy meals for home delivery across Paris, has just closed its second round of funding worth €6M. Spanish venture capital fund Samaipata Ventures has participated in the round.
Promofarma is a marketplace for parapharmacy products. This young company, founded in 2010, has become a benchmark in its sector. In the last 3 years, Promofarma has raised one round per year. In this latest round, investors have been the same as those who already participated in the company, which proves their satisfaction with the project.
Proa Capital is a Spanish investment fund, specialised in MBO and BUILD UP transactions, supporting the management teams of companies in complex consolidation and integration processes in changing sectors and environments. Taking advantage of the fact that this September...
Captio is a leading technology platform in Spain for managing travel and business expenses. Through an app, employees can digitise their tickets with a simple photo, which processes this data automatically thanks to the image recognition technology developed by this company that employs 50 people.
According to Ascri's report "2016 Venture Capital & Private Equity in Spain", Spanish fundrasing by private entities experienced a certain slowdown compared to 2014, reaching a figure of €1,481M. If we add to this figure the resources raised by public entities and the application of international resources when making their investments, the total amount of funds raised was €3,359M. Although this figure is considerably lower than in 2014, it is considerably higher than the funds raised during the crisis period.
MAB companies have started the new year with growth. Some, such as Eurona Wireless, have carried out capital increases in order to finance acquisitions, while others, such as Agile Content, have announced the purchase of companies. In addition, Inkemia has increased its shareholdings in its group companies through capital increases.
InfoVista is a provider of network performance management software solutions for mobile communications service providers, operators and IT companies. In May 2016 Apax Partner acquired the company, which has provided it with the necessary liquidity to be able to make acquisitions. It has already started making acquisitions and plans to make more in the near future.
In the last week we have learned that Renault-Nissan and Google have made acquisitions in the Software sector to improve their business.