Investors
Nauta Capital’s main areas of investment interests include B2B Software propositions, disruptive Digital Media companies, and enabling technologies for Mobile and the Internet.
Wayra is Telefónica’s Open Innovation Hub and one of the largest global corporate accelerators in the world. Wayra accesses new markets alongside Telefónica.
Wayra Barcelona signed an investment agreement with Abiquo to boost its business development with the group and integrate its value proposition into the different business units of Telefónica. Read the press release here.
Balderton focuses on the technology sector and notable investments include Bebo (acquired by AOL for $850m), Betfair (floated on the LSE in October 2010), ScanSafe (acquired by Cisco for $183m), LOVEFiLM (the home entertainment subscription service), YOOX Group (the global Internet retailing partner for leading fashion and design brands, listed in December 2009) and MySQL (acquired by Sun Microsystems for $1 billion).
Funded in part by the Spanish Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism, within the Plan Nacional de Investigación Científica, Desarrollo e Innovación Tecnológica 2008-2011 has co-funded the following projects: TSI-020110-2009-353 and TSI-020100-2011-330. And within the Plan de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2013-2016 the project: TSI-100300-2013-147.