Next February, the H2020 calls will close under the second societal challenge: Food Security, Sustainable Agriculture, Marine and Maritime Research and Bioeconomy. Its objective is to ensure a sufficient supply of safe and high quality food and other bio-products through the development of productive and efficient primary production systems.
Mergers and acquisitions analysis in October 2014
Las fusiones y fusiones y adquisiciones en nuestro país siguen creciendo llegando en Octubre a una cifra de 110 operaciones por un importe de €14868M. Esto supone un incremento del 5,77% en el número de operaciones y del 92,72% en el capital movilizado respecto al...
Mexican investors are interested in Spain
This year 2014 the number of mergers and acquisitions in Mexico has grown considerably thanks to the reforms carried out by the Mexican government. In addition, Spain is playing a leading role, having carried out 3 acquisitions of Mexican companies and 5 sales of Spanish companies to Mexico in the last quarter of 2013.
2014 SEES RECORD ICT INVESTMENT
2014 has been a good year for the ICT sector, with worldwide investments reaching the highest figures since the technology bubble of 2000. A good third quarter According to data from 451 Research, a consultancy and research company,...
Inveready makes several successful divestments in the last two years
The venture capital firm Inveready, winner of the 2014 ASCRI awards, is one of the most active funds in our country and has made several successful divestments in 2013 with some operations with a Tir exceeding 100%, which has allowed it to create a new fund and invest in more companies in 2014. In addition, this year he has also made highly profitable divestments.
Analysis of investments in Telemedicine
Telemedicine presents a framework of solutions in many fields such as diagnosis, monitoring and prevention, which can change the lives of people with chronic diseases, save healthcare costs and time for patients and doctors among others. According to a study carried out by Cap Gemini, $125B will be invested in Telemedicine in 2015 and Spain in particular will contribute 4000M to this figure, according to the technology consultancy CMC.
Beneficiaries Emprendetur I+D+I 2013
Emprendetur R&D&I is the programme that supports research, development and innovation applied to products and services in the tourism sector. The 2014-2015 call for applications will open soon, which is why we have decided to make an analysis of the beneficiaries in 2013.
Fiware programme, towards the city of the future.
80 million to companies and entrepreneurs developing applications based on FI-WARE, a platform that represents an open option for the development and global deployment of applications in the Future Internet.

Investment in video game companies is growing
In the last five years, the number of rounds of investment in video game companies has grown steadily, reaching 49 rounds of investment last year for a total of €177,797,781 worldwide. Although Spanish companies have traditionally received little investment, they are gradually getting investors and universities to provide them with the help they need to develop video games.
Analysis of Spanish venture capital fundraising at Capcorp 2014
La semana pasada asistimos desde Abra Invest al congreso anual del Capital Riesgo en España – Capcorp2014. Una de las cuestiones que más creemos puede influir en el futuro próximo del sector es el levantamiento de nuevos fondos para inyectar liquidez r impulsar el...

Fondico selects 9 female managers in its third call for proposals
FOND-ICO Global, the venture capital fund of funds managed by AXIS, the ICO's venture capital company, has announced the 9 venture capital managers chosen in this 3rd call, in which it will invest €194M.
Venture capital analysis at CapCorp 2014
Esta semana desde ABRA INVEST hemos asistido en Madrid al congreso anual de capital riesgo organizado por Capital & Corporate. Una de las conclusiones ha sido el crecimiento del ecosistema español del venture capital que todavía tiene mucho que hacer para llegar...