Throughout 2018 we saw how several venture capital companies specialising in IT were being sold and, moreover, for significant amounts. We did not want to be left behind and we have investigated these operations, exposing in this post the 5 most relevant sales. We are talking about divestments totalling more than 2.5 billion euros.
Spain's Besepa, a company that offers solutions to automate banking management for small and large companies, has been sold to Enxendra Technologies. We note that financial technology continues to gain market share and more and more companies are specialising in this sector. To support this statement, we have conducted an analysis of the sales of companies in the FinTech sector for SMEs globally.
We analyse the automotive electronics sector from our Corporate Finance perspective. Last month we learned of Talde Private Equity's purchase of P4Q Group's shareholding. This has encouraged us to carry out an exhaustive search of companies that have been sold recently in the automotive electronics sector.
Nanogap is a Galician company specialising in the development and manufacture of nanotechnology. At the end of 2018 we learned about the financing round it received from the investment fund Repsol Corporate Venturing.
This operation related to our field of corporate finance invited us to analyse the nanotechnology sector, looking at the various company sales transactions that have recently been confirmed worldwide.
On 31 December 2018, we learned of a couple of corporate finance transactions by the Typsa Group. This prompted us to take a look at where the engineering companies sector stands and what kind of deals have been done recently.
We wanted to analyse the marketplace sector in depth and we have come across an active niche in corporate finance, the second-hand marketplaces. In this new post we have talked about the round of financing that the Mexican GoTrendier has received and about the sale of the most significant companies in the sector.
After observing the movements in the sector, we analyse the most significant and confirmed company sales in the last year 2018.
We talk about Grabango, a company that enables the implementation of an automatic payment system in physical shops. On 9 January we learned about the Californian company's round of funding, led by Propel VC.
After observing the movements in the sector, we analyse the most significant and confirmed company sales in the last year 2018.
We know how big an impact the smart energy sector is having on the economy, but are your companies being active in corporate finance processes? We answer this question for you.
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.
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.
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.
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.