{"id":1438,"date":"2024-01-04T10:49:17","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T10:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nortia.com\/?post_type=sala-de-prensa&#038;p=1438"},"modified":"2024-03-13T14:27:49","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T14:27:49","slug":"myinvestor-attracts-45-million-in-one-year-and-gives-manuel-lao-a-share-in-its-capital","status":"publish","type":"sala-de-prensa","link":"https:\/\/nortia.com\/en\/press-room\/myinvestor-attracts-45-million-in-one-year-and-gives-manuel-lao-a-share-in-its-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"MyInvestor attracts 45 million in one year and gives Manuel Lao a share in its capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of this amount of funds, over <strong>20 million was raised in a venture round closed last month<\/strong>, which increased the bank&#8217;s Tier 1 capital to over 60 million and increased its Tier 1 capital ratio to 40%.<\/p>\n<p>The December round was led by <strong>Nortia Capital<\/strong>, the Lao family&#8217;s business holding company, and <strong>Arama Futuro<\/strong>, a family office owned by <strong>\u00c1ngel As\u00edn<\/strong> and managed by \u00c1ngel Hernando.<\/p>\n<p>Nortia, managed by former CaixaBank executive <strong>Juan Antonio Alcaraz<\/strong> since last year, channels the investments of Manuel Lao, former owner of Cirsa. The entrepreneur, who is among the 50 wealthiest people in Spain according to the Forbes list, sold the gaming machines, casinos and bingo group to US giant Blackstone in 2018, in a deal <strong>valued at around \u20ac2 billion<\/strong>, including debt.<\/p>\n<p>The conglomerate of the Andalusian-born entrepreneur based in Barcelona controls, among other investments, 8.2% of <strong>Merlin<\/strong> and 5% of <strong>Sacyr<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c1ngel As\u00edn is the founder of the Aragonese technology company <strong>esPublico<\/strong>. The company, which was founded in 2001, specialises in <strong>providing services to local government<\/strong>, although it also works for the private sector. esPublico was acquired by US private equity fund <strong>TA Associates<\/strong> last year for more than 500 million euros.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to this latest venture round, in March last year MyInvestor issued convertible shares subscribed by entrepreneurs such as <strong>David Ruiz de Andr\u00e9s<\/strong> (founder of Grenergy), <strong>Gerard Oliv\u00e9<\/strong> (co-founder of Wallapop), <strong>Carlos Rivera<\/strong> (co-founder of Clicars), <strong>Julio Ribes<\/strong> (founder of Swipcar) and <strong>Juan Desmonts<\/strong> (founder of Dosfarma). The investment bank BlueBull advised MyInvestor on this transaction.<\/p>\n<p>Also participating in the round were Andbank and the bank&#8217;s family office shareholders, including <strong>Casticapital<\/strong>, the holding company of the Canarian Del Castillo family; <strong>Aligrupo<\/strong>, a conglomerate of the Alcaraz entrepreneurs from Alicante; and <strong>Reig Patrimonia<\/strong>, owned by the Ribas family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1278,"template":"","class_list":["post-1438","sala-de-prensa","type-sala-de-prensa","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>MyInvestor attracts 45 million in one year and gives Manuel Lao a share in its capital | Nortia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nortia.com\/en\/press-room\/myinvestor-attracts-45-million-in-one-year-and-gives-manuel-lao-a-share-in-its-capital\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"MyInvestor attracts 45 million in one year and gives Manuel Lao a share in its capital | Nortia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Of this amount of funds, over 20 million was raised in a venture round closed last month, which increased the bank&#8217;s Tier 1 capital to over 60 million and increased its Tier 1 capital ratio to 40%. 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