According to TTR's monthly report, capital raised by private equity funds in Spain increased by 101% in August compared to the same month last year. The number of transactions increased to 13, compared to 11 in August 2014. By sector, the most active sectors in August were real estate, with 23 deals; technology, with 11, and the Internet and health, hygiene and aesthetics sectors, both with 5 deals.
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So far in 2015 there have been more than 126 financing rounds in the energy sector. Within this sector, renewable energies have had a lot of weight for some years now, but in the last two years we have seen that investment in energy efficiency is gaining ground. From 2013 to 2014, investments in energy efficiency grew by 42%.
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The end of the energy reform is encouraging some of the main companies to look for partners and to increase the level of integration thanks to the high levels of liquidity in the market. The purchase of solar and wind installations so far this year has already exceeded 1,000M and experts agree that the sector will see new operations in the coming months.
Crowdlending has grown in Spain by more than 360% in its first two years, reaching a total volume of €13.7M. It is a type of financing that, although it has just started in our country and is still seen as something new, it has a lot of potential. Bank financing still amounts to 95% in Spain, while in countries such as the United Kingdom or the United States this figure does not exceed 50%.
Restructuring funds are active, and in recent months we have witnessed both successful divestments, such as Sherpa Capital's divestment of Polibol, and buyouts, such as Phi Industrial's purchase of Barloword logistics....
If in July we wrote a post about the mergers and acquisitions that Basque companies had carried out with the aim of opening up to new markets and strengthening their activity, today we would like to highlight that Basque companies are also of interest to other companies.....
An international study of Spanish start-ups abroad carried out by the consultancy firm Keyprocom and Ticketbis reveals that 29% of Spanish technology start-ups have an international turnover of more than 60%. A number of these companies are now...
A secondary fund is a fund whose business is to buy investees from other funds. This type of fund is growing considerably. Last year these funds recorded record fundraising figures of $29,000M, and now we have news that Lexington Partners has closed the largest secondary fund in history with $100,100M. In Spain these funds have also been in the news lately, Arcano has set up a new fund of funds and Portobello has sold a block of 7 investees to a secondary fund led by the giant HarbourVest.
After several years of crisis in which the lack of financing made it impossible to complete buyout operations, last year foreign investors began to regain confidence in Spain and started to divest, with significant capital gains for the investors involved.
Faced with the difficulty biotech companies have in finding both private and public funding, they are turning to crowdfunding. This year, Spain has created the first European platform and the second worldwide for biotech crowdfunding. Although the operations closed in Spain are still of a small amount, operations closed in biotechnology in other parts of the world, such as that of Cell Therapheutics for almost €1M, show that it is a form of financing that will eventually have a significant impact on the sector. In addition, the public sector has also launched a crowdfunding platform in the biotech sector.