Find out the latest information on the FoodTech sector and the evolution of the investment effort in recent years with our M&A Analysis study. In addition, we analyse Riverside's acquisition of the Murcia-based dietetics company ProbelteBio.

Find out the latest information on the FoodTech sector and the evolution of the investment effort in recent years with our M&A Analysis study. In addition, we analyse Riverside's acquisition of the Murcia-based dietetics company ProbelteBio.

We analyse the capital commitment to companies specialising in market research solutions. The Catalan online platform Snappy closes a €1.3M round led by Criteria Caixa and Banc Sabadell.

We analyse Index Ventures, one of the leading venture capital firms specialising in the technology sector in Europe, and the investment rounds it has led in Spain.

Capital is increasingly being directed towards FinTech and InsurTech, and the number of M&A deals related to these sectors is growing all the time. We take a look at current investment activity in IT consulting for FinTech and InsurTech.

We analyse the current investment situation in the Ad & Marketing Tech sector: distribution of investment by segment, M&A operations, investors, etc. In addition, we study the Primetag round and the purchase of OLAmobile from EyeSee.

In this round, eight funds have been selected in which Fond-ICO Global will invest around €160M. The selected funds are committed to invest a minimum of €817M in Spain, which is 5.1 times the amount provided by the ICO.

We analyse the latest major M&A deals in organic food and dietetics. The multinational AgroFresh has acquired 75% from the Valencian company Tecnidex, while the Catalan company AB-Biotics sells its dietary supplement AB-Fortis to Frutarom.

We analyse the most important mergers and acquisitions that have taken place in the engineering sector in 2017. We also take a look at the Top 5 global engineering investment rounds this year.

We take a look at the main mergers, purchase of companies and investment rounds that have taken place in 2017 in Spain in the marketing and advertising sector.

On 14 November, the new call for proposals for the 2017 Challenges-Collaboration programme, which will receive a total of €500M this year, will open and will end on 13 December this year. We explain all the details of this call and analyse some of the projects that have benefited from the 2016 Challenges.

UK private equity firm Black Toro has entered into an agreement with the capital increase 24.6m in Torrot Electric, a manufacturer of electric two-wheeled vehicles, and enters into mobile electric scooter rental company Social Muving for €22m.

Link Mobility, the Norwegian telecommunications and IT company, has acquired the Spanish mobile messaging company Didimo. The transaction, valued at €18 million, also includes the business of Didimo's subsidiary Jet Telecom and Global Messaging Solutions (GMS).

Enertika, the Spanish energy services company, has raised €20M to accelerate its growth plans. It will invest €15M in projects with the Susi fund and closes a €20 million capital increase 5M led by Caixa Capital Risc.

Spanish telecoms operator Eurona accesses a €45M loan from Magnetar Capital for the development of 5G, in view of its €200M turnover forecast for 2020. In addition, the Swedish group EQT has acquired the 80% from the operator Adamo Telecom.

Following the approval received from the Board of Directors, Netex Learning Technologies is today listed on the Alternative Stock Market (MAB), becoming the first Spanish company in the e-learning sector to be listed on the Stock Exchange.

Online grocery and fresh produce buyer Lola Market has closed a financing round aimed primarily at acquiring rival Comprea, doubling its size and strengthening its leadership in the sector.

InnoCells, Banco Sabadell's digital business hub, is leading a round in Bud, the UK's leading platform for integrating financial solutions and products into a single marketplace, through its investment vehicle InnoCapital.

GPI, a leading Italian group in the health and social care market, announces the signing of an agreement to acquire 60% of the share capital of Hemasoft Software for €4.8M, parent company of the Spanish group of the same name, specialised in the development of healthcare software.

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).

We look at the new funds raised in October and the record numbers of international fundraising operations.

We analyse the interest of global capital in proptech, a new business model emerging from the digital revolution in the real estate sector. Spotahome has closed a €13.6M funding round led by Passion Capital and Seaya Ventures.

We analyse the most important investment rounds that have been closed in recent years in the Agrotech ecosystem, a sector that will be of vital importance in the coming decades. The investment effort in this sector is focused on the research of projects and products to increase and improve agricultural production worldwide.

Investment in Genomics in 2017 has already surpassed last year's figure, boosted by the large rounds of funding that diagnostics startups have managed to close.

Spanish company Coverfy, the first mobile insurance management app, has closed a €3.5M investment round led by K Fund, Seaya Ventures and Sabadell. Venture Capital.

We take a look back at the most important funding rounds in the IoT sector in 2017. In addition, Altair acquires Spain's Carriots 100% from Suez and the CDTI (Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology).

Idinvest Partners, the European private equity firm specialising in SMEs, is launching the ISIA Fund (Idinvest SME Industrial Assets), the first fund with the objective of financing the modernisation of European SMEs' production equipment.

We take a look at the main financing rounds in the fashion sector, which is very active in M&A. In addition, we analyse the third round of funding for 21 Buttons, a Spanish app that helps instagrammers monetise their activity.

Quantum Capital Partners exits Eltec IT, a company specialising in technology solutions for IT infrastructures, after an intense turnaround process. The company has been acquired by Esare Sistemas, a Spanish ICT group.

The investment round, which was led by Naspers Limited, one of the world's leading Internet and multimedia companies, brings LetGo's valuation to $1,000M, double that of rival Wallapop.

Spanish Big Data analytics company LogTrust closes a new €29.8M investment round, led by Kibo Ventures and new investor Insight Venture Partners.

London-based private equity firm Felix Capìtal closes a second €131M investment fund to double its bet on the creative class of digital brands and B2B eCommerce and marketing technologies.

Altia, which has been listed on the MAB since 2010, offers IT consultancy services and ICT solutions for the industrial, financial, services, telecommunications and public administration sectors.

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.

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.

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.

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.

On 1 September 2017, Abra Invest formalised an integration agreement with the international professional services network Baker Tilly International, the world's 9th largest network in terms of turnover according to the International Accounting Bulletin (IAB), with offices in more than 150 countries.

Billin, the Madrid-based company that offers an invoicing management platform dubbed "the dropbox of invoices", has closed a €1.5M investment round backed by Kibo Ventures, K Fund, and business angel Carlos González Cadenas.

The venture capital fund Columbus and the US company Asklepios set up the joint venture Viralgen to invest in the opening of a viral vector plant in San Sebastian.

The German consulting firm KPS, advised by Baker Tilly, joins the wave of acquisitions in the SAP segment, and acquires the Catalan ICE Consultants in order to strengthen its presence in southern Europe and expand its portfolio of services.

Typeform, the Spanish leader in web forms, raises more than €29M in a round led by General Atlantic. The company has tripled its turnover in the last year and has been included in the list of the 100 'hottest' startups in Europe by Wired magazine.

Blinkfire, a startup founded in 2013 to measure the impact of advertising in sports, has received its second round of investment of €1.34 million.

The Carlyle Group has sold Itconic, the largest provider of neutral data centre, connectivity and cloud infrastructure solutions in Spain and Portugal. The buyer was Equinix, Inc. a Nasdaq-listed company specialising in interconnection and data centre services. The purchase price amounted to €215M. The agreement was signed on 8 September 2017, and the acquisition is expected to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2017, subject to regulatory approvals.

Alantra is finalising the launch of its new investment fund focused on taking minority positions in small and medium-sized listed companies in the Iberian market. This vehicle, the third of its kind to be launched by the firm, will have a size of between €150M and €200M. The firm will invest between €20M and €25M per company.

The company, created in 2014, has multiplied its turnover by 10 in just one year. The company's challenge will be to consolidate its position in Spain, replicate the success achieved in Italy, France and Mexico and continue investing in the development of a technology that allows, among other things, the programmatic buying of In-Image Advertising.

Cellnex Telecom has completed the acquisition of Dutch infrastructure operator Alticom. The transaction, which has been closed for €133M, will result in the addition of 30 new towers in the Netherlands and will provide the company with €11.5M of EBITDA in 2018.

Investment in cybersecurity is growing, both in terms of the volume invested and the number of transactions carried out. Proof of this are the 6 investment rounds that have been closed for an amount greater than $100M in the last quarter of 2017 (Trim2). This shows that the sector is maturing.

In recent months, private equity funds have closed deals such as the sale of Mémora to Ontario Teachers' for €500M or the sale of Pronovias by BC Partners. With sales like these, and many others, the year looks set to be exceptional for the sector. Recently, we have detected the announcement of new [...]

According to Everis, the number of deals in the sector will be 9% lower than last year, while investment volume will grow by 15%. This is a sign that the sector is in the process of maturing, fewer deals are being done, but each company is betting more heavily. In terms of the countries leading the sector, the USA is the biggest forerunner.

In June, Amazon made its biggest purchase ever with the acquisition of the Whole Foods supermarket chain for $$13.7 billion. With this purchase, Amazon has the staff and strategic locations to provide its food delivery service, better known as Amazon Fresh.

Kantox, the fintech company that operates in currency exchange for businesses, has closed a €5 million round raised by its own shareholders. Co-founder and CEO Philippe Gelis confirmed yesterday that the round will bring the company closer to break even, which is expected to be reached "by the end of 2017".

Easy Payment Gateway, a payment and fraud gateway, has just closed an investment round of six million euros. This is the third round closed by the startup, which defines itself as a platform for managing and configuring all means of payment of a company, as well as all fraud tools.

The aim of the round is to boost the internationalisation and growth of this Catalan company, especially in the North American market.

Kiro Robotics, now called Kiro Grifols, develops machines and equipment to automate or control key points in hospital processes, especially hospital pharmacy services, including Kiro Oncology, which automatically prepares intravenous medication for chemotherapy treatments in hospital pharmacies, minimising the margins of error in the preparation of medication and the risk to healthcare professionals.

Ged buys the 51% from Andalusian company Vitro to help it expand internationally in the market for in vitro diagnostic products and laboratory software.

Ironhack, the Spanish bootcamp, receives a €2.6M round to grow geographically and make advances in its technology. The round has been led by JME ventures.

Angels Capital, the investment arm of Mercadona chairman Juan Roig, has bought Sothis' 100%, which last year had a €30m turnover.

Cybersecurity firm Cybereason, which helps combat real-time cyber-attacks using artificial intelligence and counts Lockheed Martin SoftBank and Motorola among its clients, has received $100M in its fourth round.

With the purchase, the company - which develops innovative products and specialised services to help make smarter decisions - comes to Spain to strengthen its international presence and incorporate Confirma's anti-fraud and anti-money laundering tools into its portfolio of solutions.

The Basque group Global Dominion has reached an agreement with the British Dixons Carphone to buy The Phone House España, a distributor of telephone devices and services, for 55 million euros.

Finizens, the investment management robot, has announced a €4 million capital increase. The capital increase stems from Finizens' meteoric growth since its inception six months ago and the confidence of investors in its business model.

Somos Sinapsis has closed the purchase of the firm specialising in the development of eCommerce solutions based on Magento, also based in Barcelona.

NMi Gaming has offices in the UK, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain and Canada and will continue operations under the NMi Gaming brand for the foreseeable future. NMI's clients will benefit from the global focus of Gaming Labs International.

Woldsensing, the industrial and mobility solutions company based on the Internet of Things (IoT) created in 2008 in Barcelona, has closed its Series B investment round for €8.3 million. The company, which sells software and hardware solutions, accumulates since its inception an investment of about €15M.

Global Omnium, which is focused on the water sector, has bought a Valencian technology company to diversify into other sectors. Ensai has experience in the automotive field, Industry 4.0,etc.

The company aims to accelerate the development of its MedUX product and achieve international expansion.

Asturiana de Laminados is listed on Mab under the name Elzinc, in order to raise resources for growth. The company is currently expanding: it has launched new products and entered new geographical markets.

Fintonic is an app that helps us keep track of our accounts, and the money going in and out of them. The company, which has a turnover of less than €1M, has just received the 3rd largest round so far this year.

Spain's Antevenio enters the United States with the purchase of React2Media. The company, which is listed on the Alternext market in Paris, will pay around eight million dollars to acquire the New York company.

Lingokids, a Spanish startup that develops language teaching services for children from 2 to 6 years old, has closed a new $4 million financing round led by investment funds Holtzbrinck Ventures and JME. Venture Capital.

Signaturit, a Spanish electronic signature company, has announced the closing of its second investment round for €2.8M. In addition to having Sabadell bank as investor backer, the company has added new investors such as Nero Ventures and Faraday Venture Partners. This round has been favoured by the achievement of an SME instrument.

In the last five years, sales in technology companies have doubled, exceeding €1.8 billion. This growth is due to the exit of the crisis in our country and the growth of the startup ecosystem. What have been the biggest sales in the period 2016-2017? We have detected 4 technology companies that have been bought by foreign investors for a price greater than €100M. All of them had previously completed investment rounds.

Nektria, a Spanish company to improve e-commerce logistics, receives €2M to increase its workforce and grow in the European market.

The Italian group Comdata, which was bought in 2015 by private equity firm Carlyle, has once again gone on a buying spree. After buying Digitex in Spain and LatAm and Win in Turkey. It is once again buying a Spanish company, Overtop, and is entering the French market with the purchase of Izium's shares in the main French CRM companies.

IFR Group, a Microsoft Dynamics AX implementation partner in Spain, has announced the acquisition of Alicante-based MCA Informática. It is a technology consulting firm that, since 1993, has been dedicated to the implementation of Microsoft Dynamics AX solutions and systems projects.

Anaconda Biomed, Vivacell, Devicare and Apta Targets are the Spanish biotechs that have secured investor backing in May with the aim of bringing their products to market.

Just a month ago we told you that the Warburg Pincus fund had bought Accelya to merge it with one of its investees and create a world leader in the BPO sector for tourism. Now it is news that Accelya has gone on a buying spree to continue growing in the sector.

Cybersecurity with a market figure of up to $122.4B in 2016, is one of the fastest growing sectors.An increasingly hot area within the cybersecurity industry is Identity Management, in the first quarter of 2017 there were a total of 35 deals in the sector.

WPP, the British digital advertising holding company, has once again gone shopping and has acquired a Spanish company: "The Cocktail Experience, dedicated to the analysis of consumer behaviour in the digital sphere.

The venture capital fund 'K Fund' is betting on the algorithm developed by this company to maximise hotels' profits, based on their competition and customer segmentation.

Yogome has received an investment of $6M (5.4 million euros) from Seaya Ventures, the Spanish venture capital fund led by Beatriz González and Michael Kleindl. Variv Capital and Endeavor Catalyst have also participated in this Series A round with another 600,000$.

Linkcare, which was born in Hospital Clínic, is a collaborative medicine platform. The company has just agreed the entry into its shareholding of Guangzhou Global Star Investment, a Chinese fund that will inject about €5M for a majority stake, conditional on the company moving its headquarters to the business park in Canton.

Tecnocrática Centro de Datos has bought from Vorneo the part of the business corresponding to hosting, servers and derivatives, except for the part of consultancy and other minor services. It has also hired part of the company's technical team.

The company passed the €500M market capitalisation requirement in September, where it must remain for six months before it can switch from the MAB to the stock market. MásMóvil has already reached €600M in value. The company plans to make this leap in 2017, before the summer, after having delayed it on many occasions. If listed on the MAB, Masmovil would be the first MAB-listed company to make the leap to the continuous market.

Experis IT continues to grow in the HR technology market. It recently bought Ciber and has now announced the acquisition of Innovati, a Spanish company specialising in IT solutions.

Stream Hatchet, the platform for video game streaming professionals, has closed the sale of its company with the corporate Millennial ESports, dedicated to providing technological solutions in the field of gaming. The transaction was closed last April, and represents the fifth sale of a project of the València-based accelerator Plug and Play Spain in its five years of life.

SDOS, a company specialising in software development, particularly mobile applications, is laying the foundations for international growth. After several years of growth, the company has decided to organise itself by creating a holding company and has bought the company Metadology, a specialist in big data. These two actions will allow the company to consolidate its position in Spain and to gain strength to enter the international market.

In the first 5 months of 2017, the number of investments made in the cybersecurity sector has reached a new record high, reaching 190 deals, which is 20% compared to the same period last year. Although we have detected large rounds in the sector, there have also been several seed/angel rounds. This is a sign that new innovative solutions are being created in response to emerging attacks. Which companies are receiving support from investors?

The venture capital is Spanish is in vogue. A few days ago we learned of the funds selected in the 8th Fondico call and several firms have announced the imminent launch of new funds. Among them we have detected funds with a focus on technology, health and energy.

Mortadelo and Filemón are no longer Spanish. Penguin Random House, the world's leading publisher with 250 publishing houses in the five corners of the world, has closed the purchase of Ediciones B, until now owned by Grupo Zeta. Grupo Zeta thus obtains liquidity to meet its debt.

PopPlaces.com, the Spanish marketplace dedicated to renting commercial space for days for pop-up stores or events, is making progress in its international growth and has completed the merger with the German company Go-PopUp.

Verse, the mobile app for person-to-person payments, has announced the closing of its new funding round worth $20.5M, or €18.5M, to expand into new countries, consolidate in existing ones, launch new products and continue to grow.

Anagram is a programmatic buying company, enabling large advertisers and agencies to efficiently and transparently run their own programmatic advertising campaigns.

Restb.ai, specialising in image recognition-based business solutions, has received a €1.2M investment to support its expansion. The round was backed by Lanta Capital, Capitana Venture Partners, Athos Capital and Tandem Capital and US investor Court Westcott LLC.

With this new capital inflow, the on-demand logistics platform created in Spain reaffirms its objective of reinventing the transport logistics market, a sector that generates 10 billion dollars (9.2 billion euros).

The company, through its German subsidiary Telefónica NEXT, has reached an agreement to acquire the German startup Minodes, which specialises in technology for analysing customer data in shops anonymously.

The AEESD aims to strengthen the competitiveness and internationalisation of Spanish companies, mainly SMEs. Among the technologies that will benefit from this aid are 5G connectivity, massive data processing, cloud computing, the Internet of Things and cybersecurity, all of which are set to be the technologies of the future and which are expected to [...]

Devicare, founded in 2012 in Barcelona, is a company specialising in innovative medical devices for the home care of chronic patients under the Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) concept.

Masmovil, a Mab listed company, has grown by 78% so far this year. In addition, more and more funds are looking to invest in Mab companies. Also in the news this week is that Mab is asking for the same tax treatment as other EU markets and the continuous market.