Founded in 2015, Kuaderno is a leading Spanish independent digital platform for learning English for students aged 5 to 15. The objective of the round is to finance the main avenues of growth; improving products and strengthening the intelligent content generation algorithm. In addition to boosting its international growth.
A year after buying Nexica, Digital Dimension, a subsidiary of Econocom, is buying another Spanish company, Gigigo, this time a digital mobility solutions company.
We start the year with the announcement of new funds for technology and healthcare companies. Altai Startups, an American fund, has launched its first fund outside the US and has decided to do so in Barcelona, with expectations of being the largest life sciences investment vehicle created in Spain.
WerfenLife, the Catalan medical giant with an annual turnover of €1.175 million, wants to boost its in vitro diagnostics division and has bought Accriva Diagnostics and Germany's Tem. On the other hand, it wants to reduce the weight of its medical devices division and intends to sell Bolton Médica.
Warburg Pincus has beaten PAI Partners and Bridgepoint to take over the Spanish company Accelya to create a giant in the world of outsourcing in the tourism sector.
Nasqad-listed US video game publisher Take-Two announced on Wednesday the purchase of Catalan video game developer Social Point for €231.5 million.
Although the major identity management technologies are American, in 2016 we have detected several European operations in the sector. The application we have detected that is growing the most is related to online banking.
EUREKA is a European initiative to support R&D&I that aims to promote technological projects between different countries in order to improve the competitiveness of companies. It encompasses 46 countries of the European Union and in Spain it is managed by the...
On 22 December Clever Global went public on the MAB, carrying out a €2.4M capital increase and a week later announced the acquisition of the Catalan company Isoco, a technology services company aimed at transforming the purchasing function into a strategic process for organisations.
European companies in the field of cybersecurity, such as Darktrace and Silentcircle, have raised more than $50M in 2016. Investors include major international investors such as KKR, but also European investors such as Santander.
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.