BStartup Health, Banco Sabadell's programme dedicated to health startups, has backed Doppli Connect, a technology company in the medical sector. The startup has devised the first device on the market that automatically detects and monitors contractions and the heart rate of the...
From a corporate finance perspective, we analyse the investments made in marketing tech. In this case, we will analyse the €6M round closing in favour of Talentry and the acquisition of Caher's 30% by Suma Capital. Get in touch with...
We analyse IBM and Oracle, their various innovation policies and their different mergers and acquisitions during the first half of 2018. Innovation policy IBM is a global technology and innovation company headquartered in New York. It is the employer of...
Ysios Capital, Spain's leading private equity firm in the biotech sector, announced on 14 April that it has participated in a $68M round in US-based Kala Pharmaceuticals, which specialises in the development of innovative treatments for eye diseases. We review the investments made by this fund manager.
Inveready has started the year with a strong commitment to biotechnology. A few weeks ago we announced that it had invested in Oncostellae, and recently we have learned that it has invested in two more companies, in Ab-BIOTICS through its debt fund and in Cuantum through its Inveready Biotech II fund.
Investors, both venture capitalists and corporations, see the industrial innovation being developed in the Basque Country as a source of opportunities. This week we have learned that a German group has bought the 50% of the Basque company Ikor with the aim of incorporating its innovation into its products. Portebello Capital has also bought a stake in Laulagun Bearings.
Who said that investment in e-commerce was a thing of the past? The percentage of people who shop online every day continues to grow and this means that companies are having to jump on the "online bandwagon". According to data from the National Commission for Markets and Competition (CNMC), there are 27 million internet users in Spain and almost 12 million of them shop online. In the last six months we have witnessed two Spanish technology companies to boost online sales that have received a large amount of funding.
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.
The investment made in Spain in May is a sign of the reactivation of the economy and the confidence that investors are having in our country.
2014 has been a very important year for M&A in Spain, with operations reaching an investment of €79,500M, a figure not reached since 2007, and large operations by corporations, which had been years without buying to restructure their balance sheet. Although there is still a long way to go, it seems that 2015 will be the year of the consolidation of M&A in Spain, and will have these trends as protagonists.
In recent years, the number of financing rounds in ICT security companies has grown considerably. In 2013, 201 rounds were closed in the sector for a total of 1850M$, which is more than the 838M$ raised the previous year in 157 deals.
In recent years, concern for the environment and the use of alternative energies have led to the emergence of investors specialising in this sector, and these investors have been increasing their portfolios as new start-ups focused on this sector appear. In addition, other venture capital firms not focused solely on this sector are increasing their operations in the sector.