Ambar Capital y Expansión, S.G.E.I.C., S.A.

PE/Buy-Out · Madrid (Spain)

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Ambar Capital y Expansión, S.G.E.I.C., S.A. formerly known as Ambar Capital y Expansión, SGECR, S.A., is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in direct and fund of funds investments. For direct investments, the firm specializes in recapitalizations, incubation, expansion capital, seed/startups, early stage, late stage, growth capital, buyout, middle market, mature, and turnaround investments in small and medium enterprises. It invests in many industries excluding financial and real estate sectors. It seeks to invest in technology, media and telecom companies. It seeks to invest in materials; industrials; education; logistics; consumer discretionary; renewable energy; infrastructure; consumer staples; technology; software security; M2M; mobile applications; energy efficiency; sustainable mobility; and e-health. Within information and communication technology applications the firm seeks to invest in e-health with a focus on telemedicine, health information systems, and m-health; e-commerce with a focus on online shopping and banking, payment systems; e-administration with a focus on ICT and IP applications for government use; e-Media with a focus on web news and entertainment, advanced videogames, digital content production and technologies, social networks and viral applications; and environment including sensors and monitoring networks. Within energy (management and control) it invests in smart grid control devices and SW, smart grid telematics, grid intelligent peripherals, energy saving operational applications, demand management systems, residential energy saving application, thermal and geothermal systems, small wind turbines, and telereading. Within information and communication technology the firm invests in network elements, architectures, protocols; mobile networks and applications; cloud computing, data storage, data mining; future Internet, IP access devices and techniques; GIS, geoinformation, GMES; and domotics. Within transportation it invests in electrical cars SW, driver-vehicle interaction, energy control; electrical car battery charging distribution systems, vehicle to grid, V2G systems; railways and airports passengers control systems; railways and motorways signaling; GNSS traffic applications; and maritime traffic control. The firm also invests in companies which are in clean energy, product recycling and infrastructure improvements. It prefers to invest in Latin America, North America, MENA region and Asia with a focus on Spain which includes Valencia and Portugal and may co-invest when investing in United Kingdom, Italy, and France. It prefers to invest between €150,000 ($0.19 million) and €40 million ($58.91 million). The firm seeks to take majority shareholding, or through joint control with other investors who share our investment philosophy. It does invest in projects whose thesis for return is based in drastic cost reductions, over leverage, and sole expansion of EBITDA multiple. The firm also participates in companies in the midst of sector consolidation or companies that are over leveraged and need to improve their capital ratios. Ambar Capital y Expansión, S.G.E.I.C., S.A. was founded in 2007 and is based in Madrid, Spain.

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