Zucchetti is an Italian company, based in Lodi, that produces software solutions, hardware and services for companies, banks, insurance companies, professionals and trade associations. Zucchetti Spain has a turnover of 16 million euros, 220 employees and more than 2,200 customers. The Italian group has a turnover of 850 million, 6,000 employees and 600,000 customers; and has [...]

Embracer Group, based in Sweden, is the parent company of companies that develop and publish PC and console games for the global gaming market. The company has, in recent years, acquired a large number of video game companies (from developers such as 4A Games to conglomerates such as the Koch Media group). Quantic Lab, headquartered in Romania, provides game development [...].

Bakertilly analyses the latest financing round of the Austrian platform Kompany. The transaction occurred on 5 August when the company conducted a financing round with the aim of expanding internationally. Kompany founded in 2012, is an Austrian platform for anti-fraud business regulations "Know Your Customer" (KYC), the collaborative KYC workspace is a web-based platform that provides financial institutions, payment providers, insurers and [...]

Bandwidth is one of the largest telecommunications companies in the United States, helping more than 500 wholesale customers and thousands of enterprise accounts leverage communications as a tool for innovation. The company was founded in 1999 as a reseller of connectivity solutions, and entered the voice business when it recognised the need for a new, more efficient way to [...]

Darktrace is the world's leading cyber AI company and creator of Autonomous Response technology. Its self-learning AI is based on the human immune system and is used by more than 3500 organisations to protect against threats to cloud, email, IoT, network and industrial systems.This includes insider threats, industrial espionage, [...]

Konecta, the multinational technology company providing integrated BPO and Customer Relationship solutions, has acquired the Rockethall group of companies, one of the leading companies in the provision of digital marketing services in Spain, in addition to Artificial Intelligence and Big Data solutions. Konecta is an organisation oriented to excellence in the management of the [...]

Lockwood Publishing is the company that developed and created Avakin Life. Avakin Life is a video game that has over 200 million registered users on iOS and Android and over a million who return at least once a day. Lockwood Publishing was founded by Joel Kemp and Halli Bjornsson in 2009, who started out as PlayStation developers and have evolved into one of the UK's leading mobile game developers. [...]

Government technology commonly known as "GovTech" or "E-governance" is the technological infrastructure that government departments use to do their internal work or provide services to their "customers", i.e. citizens.This transformation to digital platforms is focused on reducing time and costs for all types of procedures [...].

SIRAKOSS, was in the Epidarex portfolio, is a Scottish-based medical device company developing synthetic bone graft substitutes. It is an innovative medical device company developing synthetic bone graft substitutes for trauma, spine, cranio-maxillofacial and dental applications. Ossdsign acquires Sirakoss Sirakoss has been sold to Ossdsign. Ossdsign is a company that was founded in 2011 by Professor Håkan Engqvist, [...]

Ha pasado menos de una década desde que el concepto de Industria 4.0 se afianzó. A pesar de ello, algunos visionarios ya se están centrando en la próxima revolución industrial, la Industria 5.0. Esta revolución tecnológica pretende potenciar la transformación del sector industrial en espacios inteligentes basados en IoT y en computación cognitiva. Dicha tecnología trata de unir máquinas […]

WellSky's activity WellSky is a global health and community care technology company. WellSky provides software and services to transform a growing range of care services around the world. They provide solutions to the needs of care providers and communities, offering insights and solutions, so that both businesses and communities can thrive. They enable [...]

Collibra is a Data Intelligence company, accelerating trusted business outcomes by connecting the right data, information and algorithms to all citizens. The company's platform breaks down traditional data silos and opens up organisational data by providing trusted business intelligence, enabling users to find the data they need, collaborate on it, and understand how it can be used to improve business performance.

Government technology commonly known as "GovTech" or "E-governance" is the technological infrastructure that government departments use to do their internal work or provide services to their "customers", i.e. citizens. This transformation to digital platforms is focused on reducing time and costs in all kinds of administrative procedures, improving the efficiency of government [...]

3YOURMIND is a Berlin-based company that was founded in 2014 with the aim of providing widespread access to additive manufacturing with customers such as Siemens Energy, DB and Volkswagen in the early years. Thanks to these customers, they identified needs in corporate production and therefore created a software for [...]

IVF Life is a fertility clinic in Alicante specialising in complex cases, with different clinics throughout Spain (Alicante, Madrid and Donostia), in Germany and now in the United Kingdom. Constant innovation and a firm commitment to technology keep them at the forefront of assisted reproduction in order to help patients with a high degree of success [...]

Idinvest Partners is a European private equity manager focused on the mid and lower mid-market segments. With more than €6 billion under management, the firm has developed several complementary areas of expertise, including equity investments in buyout deals focused on both mid-sized European companies and young innovators; primary investments in mid-market companies; and equity investments in young [...]

Arcano Partners is the leading independent financial advisory firm with offices in Madrid, Barcelona and New York. The company is launching a Spanish Direct Lending fund essentially dedicated to the Spanish market with a fundraising target of between €100 and €150 million, which was to be launched in March 2020. Direct Lending is a direct form of financing to companies, with no intermediation [...]

In the last month, the acquisition of Thinking People by Grupo Castilla has been agreed. Baker Tilly Corporate Finance has advised the shareholders of Grupo Castilla on the transaction consisting of the acquisition of 100% of Tkinking People. Seller: THINKING PEOPLE Thinking People is a Spanish human resources consultancy. Within the sector [...]

WISeKey is a cybersecurity company that uses blockchain, artificial intelligence, IoT and security technologies to prevent bank card and transaction fraud. The acquisitions WISeKey's security solutions enable its customers to adapt to a changing device landscape without compromising their digital security. The rapid growth and proliferation of mobile-based devices has [...]

MICROOLED is a leading provider of energy-efficient microdisplays with superior image quality for near-eye mobile devices used by consumers, medical professionals and the security industry. Founded in 2007, MICROOLED's headquarters, R&D and a production facility are located in Grenoble, a renowned centre of excellence in [...]

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are the correlated parts of computer science. These two technologies are the most modern technologies used to create intelligent systems. Although they are two related technologies and sometimes people use them as synonyms for each other, but still they are both related to each other.

At Baker Tilly GDA we have already talked about government technology, commonly known as "GovTech" or "E-governance", where we indicated that it is the technological infrastructure that government departments use to do their internal work or provide services to their "customers", i.e. citizens. This transformation to digital platforms is [...]

Cellnex Telecom is a Spanish wireless telecommunications infrastructure and services company. Its activity is divided into four main areas: services for telecommunications infrastructures, audiovisual broadcasting networks, security and emergency network services and solutions for the intelligent management of urban infrastructures and services. Cellnex has paid Indra EUR 37.2 million for the acquisition of the [...]

The Multiannual Financial Framework has proposed the Digital Europe 2021-2027 programme, a programme focused on building the EU's strategic digital capabilities and facilitating the wide deployment of digital technologies The digital transition is key to Europe's future prosperity and resilience. As part of the EU's next long-term budget, the [...]

Japanese technology company NEC acquires Swiss company Avaloq for around 2.05 billion Swiss francs (1.92 billion euros/$2.23 billion). NEC buys banking software company Avaloq ABOUT NEC NEC Corporation is a Japanese multinational technology and communications company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. The company provides IT (information technology) solutions for [...]

NVent is a London-based high performance electrical $ 2.2 billion company with a team of 9,400 people. NVent is a leading global provider of electrical protection and connection solutions. The company designs, manufactures, markets, installs and services high-performance products and solutions that connect and protect some of the most sensitive and critical equipment, buildings and processes in the world.

Founded in 2008, Capensys is a trusted provider of technology and security training solutions for law firms and corporate legal departments to clients in the US, Canada, the UK and Australia, and helps companies optimise their training programmes through blended learning strategies and training tools that help them to improve their training [...]

Baker Tilly analyses which are the acquisitions The most recent developments in the sector.But before we look at it, we explain what Information Services is.The global information services or IS industry uses integrated methods to gather, process, communicate and store different types of information in order to improve the efficiency of society and organisations. The data of the [...]

The market for medical devices is a mature market: the acquisitionsThe market share of the largest acquisitions increased significantly in 2014 and is set to grow further in 2019 and beyond.Baker Tilly analyses which are the most important acquisitions in the market. But first, the sector is explained. Medical devices refers to any instrument, apparatus, appliance, implement, machine, implant... Medical devices are essential for the prevention, treatment, prevention, [...]

MHealth (Mobile Health) includes all those companies dedicated to the development of mobile technology to manage people's health and wellbeing. This technology can be used by both healthcare employees and patients to collect, store and analyse information related to their health. In our analysis of the sector, 443 companies have been analysed, classified globally [...].

SaaS, short for Software as a Service, is a software distribution model in which a provider hosts both the company's software and its data and makes them available via the Internet. This implies that the software used by the company is not present in the company itself, but that the provider [...]

The investment made by Athos Capital in Agroptima is analysed from the point of view of Corporate Finance, Athos Capital is a startup that has designed a tool for the mobile management of crops and crops. Agroptima, the technological solution to improve the efficiency of the agricultural sector Agroptima, the startup created in 2015 by Emilia Vila and Ferran Gascón, was created with the aim of streamlining the work and saving time [...]

The Energy Storage market is still a young market in which many countries are entering and growing very fast. Baker Tilly analyzes which are the main acquisitions and purchase of companies in the sector. But before we look at the leading acquisitions in the sector, let's explain what Energy Storage is. Energy Storage comprises the methods [...]

Techstars has been investing in information services companies since 2006, from consumer applications to fintech and enterprise software. In 2020, the company has created the MetLife. Programme that will provide global resources to support 10 startups. MetLife's purpose, "Always with you, building a more secure future", wants to provide the ability to embrace the limitations to innovate, being globally inclusive with [...]

The MHealth market is a mature market, with the acquisitions since 2017 indicate maturity: they increased steadily until 2016, but settled from 2017 onwards indicating the beginning of the maturity stage of the sector. Before analysing the main investors in the sector, we explain what MHealth is. MHealth or mobile health refers to the use of mobile technology to [...]

The IT Services sector and technology services companies have found themselves in an unprecedented situation due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But before explaining what has happened and what will happen from now on, let's clarify the definition of IT Services. Gartner defines information technology services as the application of information technology to the [...]

Baker Tilly analyses which are the main mergers most important players in the PaaS market. But first, the industry is explained. Platform as a Service (PaaS) is a cloud service. If a customer previously wanted to develop or host an application, they would have to have an infrastructure and a physical database (often disproportionately large), but [...]

The market for medical devices is a mature market: the M&A activities The number of mergers increased significantly in 2014 and indicate that they will continue to grow in 2019 and beyond. Baker Tilly looks at the three most important mergers in the market. But first, the sector is explained. Medical devices refers to any instrument, apparatus, appliance, implement, machine, implant... Medical devices [...]

Energy storage comprises mankind's methods of conserving, as far as possible, a certain amount of energy in any form. In this way it can be used at any time. It can be in the same form in which it was collected or in a different form. More specifically, energy storage, concentrates and releases energy that [...]

Before explaining who the two leaders in SaaS investment are, let's explain what the sector is and how it differs from its similar sectors, PaaS and IaaS. The SaaS market is currently a young market with a good projection for the future. SaaS involves third-party providers hosting, maintaining and supporting software requirements at lower costs [...].

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is a method of delivering computing, storage, networking and other capabilities over the Internet. IaaS allows businesses to use web-based operating systems, applications and storage without having to purchase, manage and support the underlying cloud infrastructure. The most popular platforms are explained below: Amazon [...]

Enghouse Systems Limited is a leading global provider of enterprise software solutions serving a variety of different vertical markets. Its strategy is to build a larger and more diverse software company through acquisitions strategic and managed growth, the company has acquired Vidyo for approximately $40 million. Vidyo is a [...]

French private equity and private debt fund manager Fondo Capza (formerly Capzanine) is an established European private investment platform focused on small and mid-cap companies. The company is majority owned by its teams and backed by the AXA Group, the fund manager has over EUR 2.7 billion of assets, Capza puts [...]

Capital Cell is Europe's first online investment platform specialising in biomedicine. Despite the global coronavirus pandemic, it has raised 4 million euros of investment for 4 companies in the first quarter of 2020. The coronavirus crisis is hitting the global economy hard, especially in our country.After a [...]

The Energy Storage market is still a young market in which many countries are entering and growing very fast. Baker Tilly analyses which are the trends by geographic area; the countries that invest the most money and those that have the most energy storage rounds. But before we look at the leading countries in the sector, [...]

Swedish technology company Ericsson has reached an agreement to acquire Cradlepoint, a US provider of 4G and 5G wireless solutions for enterprises, for $1.1 billion in cash. Ericsson acquires Cradlepoint Ericsson is a Swedish provider of technology and services to telecommunications operators. It offers 2G, 3G and 4G mobile technologies, and provides support for [...]

Baker Tilly analyses the main trends in the Information Services sector. But before we look at the trends in the sector, we explain what Information Services is. The global information services or "IS" industry employs integrated methods to gather, process, communicate and store different types of information in order to improve the efficiency of society and organisations. The data from [...]

Spanish startup The Hotels Network (THN), specialising in software for the hotel industry, has closed a €10 million financing round. The operation has been led by the French venture capital fund Elaia, investor of companies such as Criteo or Sigfox. It has also counted with the participation of the Spanish funds Seaya Ventures and Seedrocket 4Founders. About The Hotels Network Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Barcelona, THN is [...]

In this post we will focus on the most important acquisition according to Crunchbase's criteria, having filtered it by sector, both companies (acquired and acquirer), to then draw a very broad list of acquisitions.sale of companies. In this case, the most important acquisition in the IT Services and Infromation Services sectors is that of XDuce, which bought SANS Computing on [...].

In today's post we will analyse the operation and application of one of these innovative systems: hydroponic cultivation. Producing plants of any kind is difficult when it is done in the open air, as there are endless environmental variables that affect the development of the crop. However, thanks to technological development and [...]

Energy storage comprises mankind's methods of conserving, as far as possible, a certain amount of energy in any form. In this way it can be used at any time. It can be in the same form in which it was collected or in a different form. More specifically, energy storage, concentrates and releases energy that [...]

Medigate is the leading IoT and cybersecurity company for devices in the healthcare industry, enabling providers to deliver secure, connected care. Medigate merges knowledge and understanding of medical workflow and device identity and protocols with the reality of today's cybersecurity threats. Through Medigate, networks can [...]

IaaS has been discussed previously in these posts and it has already been said that IaaS is a framework that allows companies to use web-based operating systems and applications without having to develop and/or acquire their own cloud infrastructure. IaaS is in an innovative sector and closely [...]

Capella Space, a company based in San Francisco, California, and founded in March 2016, has been the most funded company in the Information Services sector in 2019. It raised a total number of 3 rounds in that year, raising a total amount of money of just over 45 million euros.

Sinch is a Swedish telecommunications company, based in Stockholm, that connects businesses and customers through tools that enable personal contact. During this year 2020 it has been very active in terms of purchase operations in the SaaS market. For this reason, BakerTilly wanted to analyse the operations it has carried out. More specifically, at the beginning of [...]

Verse, the Spanish mobile payments startup, was acquired by Square, the fintech owned by Jack Dorsey, founder of the social network Twitter. The price of the transaction has not been disclosed. Market sources say it could be between 30 and 50 million euros. Verse, the successful startup of mobile payments Verse is a company founded in Barcelona in [...]

The Energy Storage market is still a young market in which many companies are starting and growing very fast. But from its beginnings until today, there are companies that have made a difference with respect to their competitors. Baker Tilly wanted to analyse which are these companies. But before analysing the leading companies in [...]

Medical Devices refers to any instrument, apparatus, implement, machine, implant... Medical devices are essential for the safe and effective prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of diseases and ailments. Within the Medical Devices sector we can find the sub-segment of parapharmaceuticals where there are currently 213 companies where up to the present day there are [...]

As PaaS solutions evolve, they will continue to deliver innovation and remove administrative and management complexity for everything from installation, configuration and commissioning to management, maintenance and auditing. They will achieve this through: Increasing automation and autonomous operations for managed services; Extending and enhancing [...]

SaaS, short for Software as a Service, is a software distribution model in which a provider hosts both the company's software and its data and makes them available via the Internet. This means that the software used by the company is not present in the company itself, but that the provider is the one that [...]

In this post, Baker Tilly is going to analyse the most important investors in the Health Diagnostics sector. The Health Diagnostics market is a mature market, as it has a large number of investors in the health diagnostics sector. acquisitions since 2014, a total of 469 acquisitions have been recorded. The sector includes all those companies involved in the [...]

EQT Partners is a Swedish investment group with around twenty private equity funds invested in unlisted companies, investing in small and medium-sized companies through private equity funds or equity funds, mainly in startups or companies in need of strong financing. EQT has taken control of Idealista [...]

The SaaS market is still a young market in which many companies are starting and growing very fast. But from its beginnings until today, there are companies that have made a difference with respect to their competitors. Baker Tilly wanted to analyse what these companies are and how they act to maintain their leadership in the sector.

The Information Services (IS) sector is not exactly a well-known sector in the technology industry as it is often lumped together with the IT Services sector. They are two very similar sectors, but it could be said that the IT sector encompasses the [...]

Moira Capital Partners, the private equity firm specialising in direct investments in innovative Spanish companies, has acquired around 50% of GOI, the logistics operator focused on the transport, assembly and installation of bulky goods founded three years ago by entrepreneur Yaiza Canosa. Moira will invest 17 million euros in the [...]

Gestión Tributaria Territorial , SA ("GTT") and its shareholders GED Capital ("GED"), an independent private equity group specialising in the Spanish lower mid-market, and Oquendo Capital, a firm specialising in flexible capital and private debt for Spanish lower mid-market companies, have reached an agreement on the terms of a sale to AnaCap [...].

BStartup Health, Banco Sabadell's health startup programme, 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 the baby's contractions and foetal heartbeat without the need for prior medical training. After its time at the [...]

Odilo, a Spanish startup pioneer in the Digital Content as a Service (DCaaS) concept, has closed a new €6 million investment round. The deal has been led by Swanlaab Venture Factory, adding also new international investors such as Endeavor Catalyst and counting with the support of CDTI and its current investors KIBO VC, [...]

The Imaweb / IDF Group, one of the largest developers of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Dealer Management Systems (DMS) solutions for the automotive industry in Europe, has acquired the Vigo-based Serinfer Servicios Informáticos S.L., one of the divisions of the software segment of the Alvariño Group. The [...]

The technology services sector, or IT Services, is a very broad sector that encompasses many other sectors. In Baker Tilly we wanted to make this post where we will focus on the most important acquisition according to Crunchbase criteria, having filtered it by sector, both companies (acquired and acquirer), and then draw a [...]

Accenture is a professional services company, providing services and solutions in strategy, digital consulting, technology and operations. It is currently headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. Through this post, Baker Tilly wants to highlight the great activity it is having during this year 2020 in terms of company acquisitions. It has [...]

We already talked in another post about the two most important financing deals in the IT Services sector according to CrunchBase. This time we will focus on the most recent financing transactions. These are not as important as the ones mentioned above, but they are worth highlighting [...].

Gartner defines IT services as the application of business and technical expertise to enable organisations to create, manage, optimise or access information and business processes. With this information it could be said that this sector, known as IT Services, is a [...]

The SaaS market is still a young market in which many companies are starting and growing very fast. But from its beginnings until today, there are companies that have made a difference with respect to their competitors. Baker Tilly wanted to analyse which are these companies and how they act to maintain this [...]

Spanish startup The Hotels Network (THN), specialising in software for the hotel industry, has closed a €10 million financing round. The operation has been led by the French venture capital fund Elaia, investor of companies such as Criteo or Sigfox. In addition, the round has counted with the participation of the Spanish funds Seaya Ventures and [...]

During this year 2020 Sinch has been very active in terms of purchase operations in the SaaS market. For this reason, BakerTilly wanted to analyse the transactions it has carried out. Sinch is a Swedish telecommunications company, headquartered in Stockholm, which connects companies and customers via the internet.

Baker tilly analyses the financing round that Ontruck, a freight transport company with innovative solutions, has received.

Freepik is a Spanish company dedicated to offering the best quality and the most content in illustrations, photos, icons, mockups and templates for presentations. It was founded by two brothers from Malaga, Alejandro and Pablo, together with Joaquín Cuenca, founder of Panoramio, in 2010. It is currently one of the fastest growing European startups in the sector, with a turnover in 2019 of [...]

It is currently a young market with a good projection for the future. In previous posts we have known the concept of SaaS, so in this one we will distinguish the figure of SaaS from other similar ones such as Paas and IaaS, and we will also show the most active investors in the sector. The SaaS implies that [...]

SaaS, short for Software as a Service, is a software distribution model in which a provider hosts both the company's software and its data and makes them available via the Internet. This means that the software used by the company is not present in the company itself, but is available on the Internet.

In this post, we will analyse one of the most relevant M&A operations carried out in the Software as a Service sector. This is the recent acquisition of Vlocity by Salesforce, one of the leading companies in the sector. This acquisition took place on 25 February 2020 and was valued at [...]

Phibo, owned by private equity manager Nazca Capital, has agreed with the bank to adjust its financial structure. Nazca Capital's entry into the company's shareholder structure took place in 2018 with a capital increase for EUR 12 million, obtaining a majority stake of 55%. The García Sabán brothers, founders of [...]

The company specialised in family wealth management Mazabi has announced this past April and in the middle of the health crisis, its intention to invest 200 million euros in the acquisition of hotels located in the main holiday and urban destinations. The aim is to complete its portfolio of hotels in locations such as the Balearic Islands, Canary Islands, Madrid, Barcelona or Barcelona.

Sepiia, the startup that mixes fashion and technology, plans to close its second round of funding this year, which will boost its expansion into international markets. Sepiia is a company created in 2016 dedicated to manufacturing fashion with smart clothing. In other words, it specialises in the production of basic garments with the application of technology in the [...]

Foodtech is a sector that is completely changing the food business and bringing new opportunities for investors and large corporations to venture into it. Food waste is a problem that has always been present, but it has not been until a few years ago that [...]

Cybersecurity has become one of the most promising fields for the future, with great potential for growth. Likewise, several new companies have entered this sector in recent years, bringing innovation and development to a sector that already had a high technological level. In this [...]

Baker Tilly has analysed the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) sector and highlighted Konecta's acquisition of Sum Talk.

Baker Tilly has analysed investment activity in the medical technology sector in March and highlighted the funding received by two companies in the sector, AORTYX and QREM.

Baker Tilly has analysed acquisitions in the food sector and has highlighted two of those made by Angulas Aguinaga.

BakerTilly has analysed the most important investments detected in the health diagnostics sector.

BakerTilly has analysed the Food & Beverage sector and the most recent IPOs of companies in this industry.

Baker Tilly has singled out Cisco and Rackspace in the IaaS sector on the basis of their activity, turnover and recent acquisitions.

Baker Tilly has identified Stryker and Allscripts as leading companies in the mHealth sector.

Baker Tilly has analysed the main acquisitions within the Agtech sector and highlighted two companies OSRAM and Monsanto.

Baker Tilly has analysed the main acquisitions within the Cannabis sector and singled out Aurora Cannabis for its leadership among companies in the sector.

BakerTilly has identified the multinational Roche as the leading pharmaceutical company in the "Health Diagnostics" sector.

BakerTilly has analysed the market and recent investments in the MHeath sector.

Baker tilly has identified Lincoln Electric Holdings as a leading company in the Industrial Manufacturing sector.

BakerTilly has analysed the IaaS sector in order to identify what has been invested in, how and at what stage, i.e. what have been the investment trends in the sector over the last decade.

Medical Devices are those devices used exclusively for medical or therapeutic purposes, and today they are of vital importance in diagnosing, preventing, monitoring and treating diseases. The aim of this analysis has been to examine and identify the investment trends in the sector since the last [...]