{"id":43637,"date":"2017-10-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/rondas-mas-importantes-cloud-computing-europeo-2017\/"},"modified":"2025-03-12T11:43:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T10:43:07","slug":"rondas-mas-importantes-cloud-computing-europeo-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/rondas-mas-importantes-cloud-computing-europeo-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"The most important rounds in European Cloud Computing in 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"
Analizamos las principales rondas de financiaci\u00f3n del sector del Cloud Computing en Europa, un importante sector del ecosistema TIC que ha registrado pocas operaciones de M&A en 2017 (48 rondas y 12 mergers and acquisitions<\/a>) respecto a 2016 en estas fechas (140 rondas y 30 mergers and acquisitions<\/a>).<\/span><\/h5>\n

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1. Improbable receives $502M for its virtual worlds platform<\/strong><\/p>\n

Unlikely<\/span><\/span><\/a>the London-based startup that has developed a platform that allows users to build immense virtual and simulated worlds, has closed a large round of funding with the aim of further developing its technology and expanding its developer ecosystem. The company, which also has offices in San Francisco, raised $502M in a round led by SoftBank, joined by previous investors Andreessen Horowitz and Horizons Ventures.<\/span><\/p>\n

2. Oodrive, the French SaaS company, raises \u20ac65M<\/strong><\/p>\n

The French company specialises in Software as a Service solutions for secure management of confidential data. Oodrive<\/span><\/span><\/a> has closed a \u20ac65M funding round led by Tikehau Capital, MI3 and NextStage. This is the largest fundraising by an unlisted French software developer in history. This funding will enable Oodrive to strengthen its leading position in the French and European markets and accelerate its international expansion.<\/span><\/p>\n

3. Switzerland's Biovotion closes \u20ac11M round<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Swiss company Biovotion<\/span><\/span><\/a>specialising in the development of wearables for vital signs monitoring and cloud-based data analysis and management, has received more than \u20ac11M in an investment round. The deal was led by Swiss Re, one of the world's largest reinsurers, and Harmony Medical Inc, a Hong Kong-based investment group.<\/span><\/p>\n

4. Apica, the Swedish web performance specialist, acquires $12M<\/strong><\/p>\n

Apica<\/span> es una empresa con sede en Suecia que desarrolla herramientas de monitorizaci\u00f3n de carga y rendimiento web para optimizar el rendimiento de las aplicaciones m\u00f3viles y las plataformas en la nube. La empresa ha recaudado $12M en una ronda liderada por Oxx, acompa\u00f1ada por los inversores SEB Venture Capital, Nordic Investment Bank, KTH Chalmers Capital e Industrifonden.<\/span><\/p>\n

5. iExec blockchain-enabled cloud computing platform receives $12M<\/strong><\/p>\n

The French company iExec<\/span><\/span><\/a>iExec, the first distributed cloud computing platform based on Blockchain, has raised $12M in the largest ICO (Initial Coin Offering) in history in order to develop its technology. The iExec team will now start working on building a distributed computing network that will allow anyone anywhere in the world to get computing resources through the cloud.<\/span><\/p>\n

6. Ireland's Blueface raises \u20ac10M for international expansion<\/strong><\/p>\n

Irish cloud telephony company Blueface<\/span> has closed a \u20ac10M financing round led by BDO Development Capital Fund to accelerate its international expansion plans. This is the largest single investment made by the BDO fund. With this investment Blueface, which employs 50 people in Dublin, will look to increase its workforce by 80 people across its markets in Ireland, Europe and the US over the next five years.<\/span><\/p>\n

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We analyse the main financing rounds in the Cloud Computing sector in Europe, an important sector of the ICT ecosystem that has seen few M&A deals in 2017 (48 rounds and 12 acquisitions) compared to 2016 at this time (140 rounds and 30 acquisitions).<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1750],"tags":[994,995,996,242,155,997,153,998,999,1000,216,984],"sectores":[],"tipo-contenido":[2260],"class_list":["post-43637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-financiacion-sectorial","tag-apica","tag-biovotion","tag-blueface","tag-cloud-computing","tag-corporate-finance-spain","tag-europa","tag-global-corporate-finance","tag-iexec","tag-improbable","tag-oodrive","tag-rondas-de-financiacion","tag-rondas-de-inversion","tipo-contenido-noticias"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43637"},{"taxonomy":"sectores","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sectores?post=43637"},{"taxonomy":"tipo-contenido","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tipo-contenido?post=43637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}