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PCB Welcomes Inveready, an Investment Firm that Backs Innovative Companies

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 15.05.2008

PCB Welcomes Inveready, an Investment Firm that Backs Innovative Companies

Inveready Seed Capital, a risk capital firm specialising in innovative, newly formed companies, is coming to the Barcelona Science Park. Inveready has been created by a group of investors led by Josep María Echarri, former CFO of the biotech firm Oryzon Genomics; Roger Piqué, former head of the private investors' programme at CIDEM; the bank Caixa Laietana; Roca Junyent Family Office; and Capital Talent, a network of business angels.


The aim of Inveready is to invest in sectors with high growth potential, such as biotechnology, medical equipment, nanotechnology, cutting-edge software and renewable energies. Playing in this market segment, Inveready will provide “seed capital” and offer levels of profitability that are potentially far above what any other capital risk investment options can offer.

Inveready’s goal is create a wide-ranging portfolio of participating companies, placing 30 to 40 investments in a four-year period. Investments ranging from 100,000 to 500,000 euros will be made in technology companies in their initial stages of growth. Geographically, the firm will focus only on Spain, and its business model is based on investing jointly with government bodies, whose support to start-up technology companies takes the form of diverse funding formulas. Inveready’s objective is to grow these companies so that they become attractive to capital risk firms specialising in later phases of investment.

The initiative is chaired by Antoni Subirà, professor at IESE and former Minister of Industry in the Generalitat of Catalonia, and it has the support of professionals with a solid track record of investment and consulting in the biotech sector. In addition, it has the backing of investment agreements made with the ACC1Ó Agency (CIDEM-COPCA) of the Generalitat of Catalonia and with ENISA, which is connected to the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade.

Starting with capital funds totalling eight million euros, the company is now in the process of raising additional capital and expects to reach twenty million euros, with the participation of over a hundred investors, which will pave the way to being listed on the Alternative Equity Market (MAB) in the medium term.