The Spanish startup Ledmotive closed a financing round of €1.85 million on 14 December. We are talking about a technology company specialising in the development of natural or artificial lighting. In a final section we analyse the sale of the most relevant companies in the sector at an international level.

Bertin sells its multi-physics modelling business to CT Ingenieros
France's Bertin Technologies is the latest company sale victim for our corporate finance experts. On 20 December, we learned of the sale of Bertin's business line to the Spanish company CT Ingenieros.

Capgemini's latest corporate buyout
We take a corporate finance look at the most recent buyout of Capgemini, one of the world's leading providers of consulting, technology, outsourcing and professional services. We talk about a company active in buyouts, with a total of 25 investments in the last 10 years. Discover with us its last five acquisitions since 2017.

Autoscout24 forms joint venture with Autocasión
Last December we met NewCo, the new joint venture of Autocasión Hoy and Autoscout24 España. The Vocento Group will lead this association of companies dedicated to the online classification of cars in Spain.
In a final section, we will mention the most relevant international sales of companies in the sector.
Atos invests more than $3.4 billion in buyouts
We analyse from our corporate finance perspective the most recent buyout of Atos, a company that provides consulting services and solutions. We will explain in a brief space some interesting facts about the French company and its last five acquisitions. We highlight the operation made with Syntel for a value of 3,400 million dollars.
TOP 5 selling VoIP companies
We rank the most significant sales transactions of companies in recent years in the VoIP sector. These companies make it possible for the voice signal to travel over the Internet using the IP protocol, i.e. sending the voice signal in digital form instead of sending it in analogue form. The classification will be determined by the sales amounts handled in each transaction.

Which companies is Prosegur buying?
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.