Iot solutions applied to the energy sector are growing considerably. MarketandMarket estimates that the market will grow from $7.59B in 2015 to $22.34B in 2020. Among the applications that Iot has for energy we find: Time monitoring...
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NEA, Andreessen Horowitz, Accel Partners: Most active investors in big data
Investment in big data analytics companies grew considerably in 2015, when 73 rounds were made for an amount of $$1.8B. In the first half of 2016, investment seems to have fallen a little, with 25 rounds. Big data and...
UK-based Allergy therapics group completes acquisition of Spanish company Alerpharma
The €3.8M purchase of Spain's Allerpharma by UK-based Allergy Therapics was announced nine months ago and the deal has recently been completed. The sale and purchase agreement includes an additional payment of up to €2M depending on the results to be achieved.....
Insight Venture Partners and IVp: investing heavily in cybersecurity in 2015
Cybersecurity has become a priority area for investors. Last 2015, according to Gartner, organisations spent almost 5% more money than the previous year to strengthen cybersecurity: more than $75,000M. As a result of this...
Dominion buys engineering firm Commonwealth Dynamics for €5.2m
Dominion, Cie automotive's engineering and technology services subsidiary, which went public in April this year, made its first acquisition as a listed company in March.
Connected Industry 4.0: Minetur call for proposals to be launched soon
Minetur has published the forthcoming opening of the call for proposals Industria conectada 4.0, which aims to support the incorporation in industrial companies of knowledge, technologies and innovations aimed at the digitisation of processes and the creation of technologically advanced products and services with greater added value. The date of the call, although not yet published, is expected to be at the end of June.
Jobandtalent, Linkedin, Cornerjob: technologies that unite the labour market are of interest to investors who are betting big on the sector.
This week Jobantalent has closed the largest round of funding in the technology sector so far in 2016, and Microsoft has bought the professional network Linkedin for €23.26 billion.
UNAV and UPV: Following the European model, University Venture Capital Funds to finance Spinouts
Spain is beginning to follow the model that has been successful in other parts of Europe for decades and we are starting to see university funds to finance Spinouts. In 2016, two universities, one public and one private, have raised funds for this purpose, both managed by Clave Mayor.
MAB-listed Catalana Agile buys US, Brazil and Spain-based OTTN for $$7.9M.
Agile, which specialises in audiovisual content management and Big Data for audience segmentation, has acquired Over-The-Top (OTTN), which develops technology for pay-TV platforms, enabling a new TV experience through video-on-demand consumption.
More than €280M for Spanish companies in the sixth FOND-ICO GLOBAL call for proposals
Axis, the venture capital company of the ICO Group, has resolved the sixth call of FOND-ICO Global with the selection of four funds, in which it will invest €71M. These funds will invest around €280 million in Spain, which is almost 4 times the amount that FOND-ICO Global will invest. Given the great reception of this call, a new call is expected to be launched before the summer. According to the planned investment plan, new fund selection calls will continue to be launched depending on the market situation.
Atamaral buys a 30% from Tenentia
Atamaral, an investor specialising in technology companies, has bought 30%, from the technology consultancy Tenentia.
France's Serena Capital leads a €6M round in Barcelona-based logistics technology company iContainers.
Icontainers joins the waves of rounds in the logistics sector and receives an injection of $6M, the second largest investment so far this year in a Catalan startup.