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Vipera acquires Spanish technology solutions company SoftTelecom for €1.3m
UK mobile financial services company Vipera has acquired Spain's SoftTelecom Desarrollos I Mas D (SoftTelecom), which specialises in software solutions for banking customers, for €1.3 million.
Ricoh acquires Techno Trends, a Spanish company specialising in remote business solutions
Japanese multinational Ricoh buys the 100% from Techno Trends, a leading provider of meeting room, telepresence and unified communications solutions, strengthening its digital workplace transformation business.
Private equity fund GPF Capital closes its first exit in Acuntia
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.
Valencian startup Sales Layer raises €1.2M in its second round of funding
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.
Hotelbeds and Mytwinplace: Tourism sector attracts investors
Last week we learned that Cinven completed the largest Spanish VC deal in recent years by buying Hotelbeds for €1.165M, and Mytwinplace also closed a round led by Inveready.
France's Tessi buys Spanish companies Diagonal Comany and BPO Solutions
French BPO solutions provider Tessi wants to continue growing in the Spanish market and has started 2016 with the purchase of Spanish companies, first Diagonal Company and then BPO Solutions.
Divestment of Avet Ventures in the Catalan company Nuroa
Investors are benefiting from acquisitions in the classifieds technology market. Last year we saw Cabiedes and Partners successfully sell Trovit to Japan's Next CO. We also witnessed how the sale of Milanuncios was one of the most successful divestments in the history of Spain for an entrepreneur. Now we have learned that Mitula Group has bought the Catalan company Nuroa.
ICT applied to medicine receives funding: Psious and Neurobia
In 2015 we already saw how investment in E-health gained strength in our country, especially thanks to new platforms for finding and contacting doctors, this year we are going a step further and in 2016 it seems that the use of tics for the treatment of diseases will also be one of the preferences of investors.
The Oesia Group is restructured, giving less weight to banking and more to management.
In July 2015, the Oesía Network group restructured its shareholding, giving more prominence to its managers, who have been left with 44% and have carried out a new business plan in which more weight has been given to the engineering and security division.
M&A as a way to grow internationally: Seidor
Seidor, a Catalan company dedicated to providing IT services such as SAP, has decided to make the leap to the US and buy two companies: Crystal Clear Business and Quantum Software. This is yet another sign that Spanish ICT companies are going strong and are going all out, competing in the international market.
TSB sells its chronic care management subsidiary to multinational Air Liquide Healthcare
The introduction of new technologies in patient care services is a necessity for companies in the sector that want to be competitive. According to a study by Venture Watch Research for the first half of 2015, the e-health sector is the third leading sector in terms of investment in Spanish start-ups (8.8% of volume) behind financial technologies and tied with e-commerce (9.9% of volume each). This has led companies in the healthcare sector to take the plunge and invest in technology companies, such as the recent purchase of CHS by France's Air Liquide healthcare or the purchase of ThermiGen LLC by Almirall.