GPF Capital, a private equity fund focused on Spanish SMEs, sells 85% of the shares of Acuntia, an ICT company, to Vinci Energies España. The remaining capital will remain in the hands of the company's senior management.


GPF Capital, a private equity fund focused on Spanish SMEs, sells 85% of the shares of Acuntia, an ICT company, to Vinci Energies España. The remaining capital will remain in the hands of the company's senior management.
Sales Layer, a startup specialising in Product Information Management, raises €1.2M in a funding round led by investment funds Swanlaab Venture Factory and Global Omnium.
On 1 September 2017, Abra Invest formalised an integration agreement with the international professional services network Baker Tilly International, the world's 9th largest network in terms of turnover according to the International Accounting Bulletin (IAB), with offices in more than 150 countries...
Billin, the Madrid-based company that offers an invoicing management platform dubbed "the dropbox of invoices", has closed a €1.5M investment round backed by Kibo Ventures, K Fund, and business angel Carlos González Cadenas.
The venture capital fund Columbus and the US company Asklepios set up the joint venture Viralgen to invest in the opening of a viral vector plant in San Sebastian.
The German consulting firm KPS, advised by Baker Tilly, joins the wave of acquisitions in the SAP segment, and buys the Catalan ICE Consultants in order to strengthen its presence in southern Europe and expand its portfolio of services.
Typeform, the Spanish leader in web forms, raises more than €29M in a round led by General Atlantic. The company has tripled its turnover in the last year and has been included in the list of the 100 'hottest' startups in Europe by Wired magazine.
Blinkfire, a startup founded in 2013 to measure the impact of advertising in sports, has received its second round of investment of €1.34 million.
The Carlyle Group has sold Itconic, the largest provider of neutral data centre, connectivity and cloud infrastructure solutions in Spain and Portugal. The buyer was Equinix, Inc. a Nasdaq-listed company specialising in interconnection and data centre services. The purchase price amounted to €215M. The agreement was signed on 8 September 2017, and the acquisition is expected to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2017, subject to regulatory approvals.
Alantra is finalising the launch of its new investment fund focused on taking minority positions in small and medium-sized listed companies in the Iberian market. This vehicle, the third of its kind to be launched by the firm, will have a size of between...

The company, created in 2014, has multiplied its turnover by 10 in just one year. The company's challenge will be to consolidate its position in Spain, replicate the success achieved in Italy, France and Mexico and continue investing in the development of a technology that allows, among other things, the programmatic buying of In-Image Advertising.

Cellnex Telecom has completed the acquisition of Dutch infrastructure operator Alticom. The transaction, which has been closed for €133M, will result in the addition of 30 new towers in the Netherlands and will provide the company with €11.5M of EBITDA in 2018.