Caixa Capital Risc, the "la Caixa" group's venture capital manager for early-stage innovative companies, which had 4 investment vehicles specialising in Biotechnology, Industry and ICT, has launched a new Biotech fund together with the CDTI.
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Venture Capital and Venture Capital in Ireland
2014 looks like a promising year for venture capital and Venture Capital in Ireland, Enterprise Ireland, the government agency responsible for supporting Irish companies has done 11 deals in the last 6 months.
US Venture Capital 2013 at highest levels since 2008
After 3 consecutive years of growth in the number of private equity transactions, 2013 saw a 14% fall. Despite this, invested capital grew to reach its highest post-crisis levels at $426bn thanks to 13 large transactions (>2.5bn$). These include the two largest since 2008 led by corporate investors: Dell for $24.5Bn and Heinz for $23.2Bn. The pace of investment grew quarter on quarter, reaching its highest levels since 2008 in the third quarter.
74% of venture capital and private equity deals in 2013 were targeted at SMEs.
Private equity invested almost 40% of its investments in the "Other services" and "Other industrial products" sectors. Corporate investors grew by 29% in 2013, with very significant activity in the internet and technology sectors. Spain has one of the best Business Angels network infrastructures.
"American Venture Capital bets on mobility".
In 2013 Venture Capital invested $$3.7B in mobility, consecutively raising investments in excess of $1 billion over the last two quarters of 2013.
Springwater, the most active foreign fund investing in Spanish SMEs
Since mid-2013, the Geneva-based fund opened an office in Spain and has been the most active foreign fund investing in Spanish SMEs, having invested more than €50M. The firm has announced that it has more than €100M available for 2014.
BASQUE FCR risk capital for Basque SMEs
The Basque Government has joined public initiatives to promote SME financing through alternative instruments to traditional banking instruments such as venture capital.
FOnd-ICO Global and its impact on the future of venture capital
Reports on venture capital and private equity activity in 2013 have recently come out. The numbers are not good: a 31% drop in volume and a 15% drop in number of deals. Will Fond-ICO Global manage to increase these figures in 2014 and beyond?
Private equity manages to increase divestments in 2013
The most positive development in 2013 in the private equity investment sector was the significant increase in divestments, which totalled €1,451M, an increase of more than 20% over 2012, for a total of 268 deals.
How much capital did Spanish venture capital raise in 2013?
A total of €1,346M was raised in 2013, a decrease of 33% compared to 2012. Fortunately, the outlook for 2014 and beyond is improving with the emergence of FOND-ICO Global which aims to attract €3,000M over the next 4 years.
2013: the 74% of venture capital operations for SMEs
Although investment throughout 2013 was much lower than in 2012, the second half of the year saw a significant rebound to €1.2 billion. In addition, several recently announced transactions bode well for the future....
Venture capital reaches highest level since 2008
European countries have faced the worst of the sovereign debt and unemployment crisis. There is still a long way to go to regain pre-crisis levels of growth and capital investment, but there has been slight GDP growth and a stabilisation or reduction in unemployment in most countries. The data provided by Pitchbook show some positive trends for 2014.