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Hemos creado nuestra gestora Active Venture Partners!

September 3, 2009

Después de muchos años de preparaciones hemos realizado nuestro próximo proyecto emprendedor y gran sueño…

La creación de nuestra propia gestora de entidades de capital riesgo. (también explica, por que no he tenido tiempo en los últimos 10 meses en dedicarme escribir en este blog ;-)

La nueva gestora se llama Active Venture Partners (ACTIVE) y nace con el objetivo de dinamizar nuevos fondos para apoyar a emprendedores con proyectos tecnológicos y visión internacional. La gestora tiene su sede en Barcelona y desarrolla su actividad en el ámbito europeo.

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ACTIVE nace con un capital de 300.000 euros y tiene como socio único a Active Capital Partners S.L. (ACP) que funciona como nuestra empresa holding desde el año 2002.  Seguimos los 4 socios de siempre; Philipp Schroeder, Ricard Söderberg, nuestro prisidente , mentor, advisor y gran amigo Alfredo Bassal Riera y yo.

El consejo de ACTIVE está compuesto por los tres socios ejecutivos, Philipp Schroeder, Ricard Söderberg y yo mismo. La vicepresidencia la ocupa Joaquín Molins–Gil y la presidencia Alfredo Bassal Riera.

La nueva sociedad gestora estará bajo la supervisión de la CNMV (Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores).

El primer fondo que ACTIVE gestionará es la Sociedad de Capital Riesgo Molins Capital Inversión, que ya estamos gestionando desde el año 2004. Este primer fondo cuenta con un capital comprometido de 20 millones de euros y participa actualmente en compañías tecnológicas como la firma de comercio electrónico BuyVip, la empresa de software Polymita Technologies, la compañía de aplicaciones móviles Golden Gekko, la firma experta en gestión y medición de la experiencia de usuario Xperience Consulting o la empresa de servicios radiológicos a distancia Telemedicine Clinic. El fondo también cuenta entre sus participadas con empresas no tecnológicas como la cadena de vinotecas Vinus Brindis.

Nuestro primer proyecto con Active Venture Partners sera el lanzamiento de nuestro segundo fondo ACTIVE II que está previsto sea operativo a partir de finales de 2009. Con el nuevo fondo queremos realizar inversiones en empresas europeas de base tecnológica: Software, Internet, Telecomunicaciones y Cleantech, con especial atención al mercado español, y que se encuentren en fase de arranque o expansión con un modelo de negocio que ya genere ingresos. Las inversiones previstas oscilarán entre los €500.000 y los €4.000.000 por proyecto.

Ya ha salido un articulo en Expansion.

Barcelona Entrepreneurship City Show Case

November 20, 2008

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On Friday the 21. of November we organize the 1. Barcelona Entrepreneurship City Event.
150 Entreprenuers with a passion for Barcelona will come together and participate in the following program:

“Barcelona meets its Entrepreneurs”
Entrepreneurial Institutions, Organisations, Associations, Incubators & Universities discuss how to improve the Entrepreneurial environment of Barcelona…
-Juan Carlos Angeles – President of EO Spain
-Andre Varny – President Eurecan Community
-Jesus Monleon – Co-Founder of Seed Rocket
-Yolanda Perez – Director of Barcelona Activa
-Sergi Mora – Manager of the ACC1Ó Investment Forum
-Ester Palomar – Manager of Eurecan International
-Julian Vinué – Manager of La Salle Entrepreneurship Center
-Ricard Soderberg – Founder & Managing Partner of Active Capital Partners (Moderator)

“Prepare your company for difficult Times”
-Philipp Schroeder – Founder & Managing Partner of Active Capital Partners
-Christian Siegele – former Partner of 3i Venture Capital and International Business Angel

“Venturepreneurs’ Talk ”
-Albert Armengol – Founder of eConoczo & Venturepreneur of Genoom, Festuc, Bloguzz, Linqia, …
-Didac Lee – Founder of IntercomGI & Venturepreneur of Spamina, Atraczion and Scubastore
-Jan Andresen – Founder of Elkware, CEO of Weblin & Venturepreneur of cellity, JobLeads, mediaclipping, Kinkaa, High-Def, creative-weblogging, sofatronic, Fishlabs, …
-Christopher Pommerening – Founder & Managing Partner of Active Capital Partners (Moderator)

If you want to become a member of the Barcelona Entrepreneurs Meta Community please go to:

Barcelona Entrepreneurship City

The world is in crisis, but we still invest…

October 18, 2008

In the middle of the worst economic crisis since a long time we finalized our next investment in Xperience Consulting. The three founders Xavier Mestres, Javier Darriba and Alfonso de la Nuez created the Spanish company Xperience Consulting in 2001with offices in Barcelona, Madrid and Sunnyvale – Silicon Valley . The company is specialised in the analysis, optimization and usability experience of users of interactive products and services such as websites, intranets, mobile applications, video games, etc. Already today the company has an impressive list of global companies like Google, eBay, Yahoo, Sol Meliá, Movistar, Iberia, Mapfre, Vodafone, Bankinter and many more…

The investment was structured by Philipp Schroeder and Blair MacLaren. We injected €1,7 million through MCI (Molins Capital Inversion S.C.R. SA) in order to launch internationally the new software UserZoom. It permits usability departments to design, create and execute usability surveys with large numbers of users. The usability testing market in Europe grows 35% on a yearly average and according to estimations of Xperience Consulting, 72% of UK based companies will increase their usability budgets for next year. the initial success of the new software as a service offering of UserZoom with companies like Yahoo, eBay, Google or Apple gives an indication of the growth potential of Xperience Consulting.

Xperience has a team of 32 professionals and will most likely finalize 2008 with revenues of €2.500.000 and a new office in the UK. In 2009 we expect that the company will grow to €4.000.000 in revenues.

Global Entrepreneurship Week

July 31, 2008

I am very happy to announce that the Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) España will take place around the globe in the week of the 17th to the 23rd of November 2008. The founders of GEW are the “Make your Mark” and the “Kaufmann” Foundation. One of the prominent promoters of the week in Europe is the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

End of last year I helped the GEW to be introduced to Spain. The initial contact was made through EO (Entrepreneurs’ Organization) and the first meetings were hosted and managed by IESE Business School. Besides EO and IESE important entrepreneurial organisations and institutions are already represented such as, First Tuesday, Barcelona Activa, ACC1Ó CIDEM | COPCA, Active Capital Partners, Eurecan, Training Games Ltd., Caixa Capital Risc, EOI Escuela de Negocios, Intereconomía, Junior Achievement España, Sistema madri+d and Madrid Emprende. Every partner is committed to joining forces in order to organize events, conferences, learning forums and special sessions during the Global Entrepreneurship Week. Everybody has a common goal: To foster entrepreneurship!

From Venturepreneur to Venturepreneur

May 27, 2008

Last weekend we gathered for two days in Barcelona for the first Venturepreneurs Summit. Ineke Ibbeken, Philipp Schroeder, Ricard Soderberg, Blair MacLaren and I have invited a group of fantastic Venturepreneurs, in order to structure a pan-European network of serial entrepreneurs with a passion for seed investments.

It was a very energizing experience to learn from each other, discuss multiple topics and share great experiences with Albert Armengol (founder of eConozco), Carlos Muñoz (founder of Vueling), Daniel Wild (co-founder of Getmobile), Didac Lee (founder of Spamina), Dusan Stojanovic (co-founder of Alternativa), Esther Dyson (ED Venture), Jakob Tolleryd (founder of Carambol), Jan Andresen (co-founder of Elkware), Karl Funke (founder of Multitest), Oliver Beste (co-founder of myToys), Petra Becker (founder of Thesaurus) and Rodolfo Carpintier (founder of DAD).

As special guests we invited the founders of Genoom, GeoMe, Bubok, Gild International and GoCars. They presented their business concepts and we had a very lively feedback session with a lot of questions, constructive input and a lot of fun.

We would like to say THANK YOU to all participants and we are looking forward to the 2. Venturepreneurs Summit…

Barcelona Entrepreneurship City

February 28, 2008

Finally the initiative “Barcelona Entrepreneurship City” is born. This is a community of Entrepreneurs based in Barcelona that have the common goal to make Barcelona the European Hub for Entrepreneurship. Members propose new ideas, in order to improve the infrastructure and services for Entrepreneurs in Barcelona.

The long term vision is to build a meta platform hosting and classifying all services relevant to entrepreneurs and the company creation process, plus a social networking functionality for the entrepreneurial community of Barcelona.

This Initiative will be moderated by Entrepreneurs, lead by Entrepreneurial Ambassadors and advised by the greatest role model Entrepreneurs of Barcelona.

This Group is about a common interest and not individual or political interests…! This initiative is backed by: EO Entrepreneurs’ Organization Barcelona, First Tuesday Barcelona, Barcelona Open Coffee Club, IESE, ESADE, noticias.com…

You can also preview the Linqia Profile of this group… ;-)