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January 2024

Reblaze Technologies Becomes Part of the Link11 Group

Reblaze Technologies, a leading international provider of cloud-native web application and API protection (WAAP), becomes part of the Link11 Group.

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Sonae IM invests in Portfolio Expansion

December 2016 SONAE Sonae IM invests in Portfolio Expansion Sonaecom, SGPS, S.A. (“Sonaecom”) announces that, on this date, its affiliate Sonae Investment Management – Software and Technology, SGPS, S.A. (“Sonae IM”), has reached an agreement with NOVO BANCO, S.A., and its subsidiary ES TECH VENTURES, SGPS, S.A., to be the leading investor in a transaction involving the acquisition of the participation units in 3 venture capital funds from Novo Banco: Fundo de Capital de Risco Espírito Santo Ventures Inovação e Internacionalização (ESV I + I); FCR - Espírito Santo Ventures II (ESV II) and Fundo de Capital de Risco Espírito Santo Ventures III (ESV III). The completion of this agreement is conditional, inter alia, upon the necessary legal and/or regulatory approvals, namely from the Banco de Portugal. With this transaction Sonae IM will reinforce its portfolio namely through sizeable stakes in leading edge companies such as Outsystems and Feedzai, both...
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Google Fund invests 1.6 million euros in Portugal

November 2016 SONAE Google Fund invests 1.6 million euros in Portugal Google invests again in a second support round through the Innovation Fund “Digital News Initiative”. With the DNI, Google had pledged itself to spend 50 million euros a year, during three years, in the modernization of the European media — empowering them in the areas of new products, investigation and formation. In the first round there had been attributed a financing of 27 million euros, summed with the announced values in the second round (24 million euros available for 124 projects of social communication, in all Europe), the DNI fund already distributed 51 million euros in which the considered criteria to select the winners were on impact, innovation and viability. In Portugal, were attributed 1.58 million euros to six Portuguese projects of digital journalism, among which the Plataforma de Meios Privados (900 thousand euros), an association of private media...
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Was it as good for you as it was for me?

November 2016 SONAE Was it as good for you as it was for me? “Sábado” evaluated the real impact of the Web Summit and, to that end, it spoke with some of the companies that attended the summit, namely us as Sonae IM. Between pitches, visit cards, new connections and meetings, the event was a great success, and the recipe was simple: joining entrepreneurs and investors in a big bowl (Meo arena and FIL). This was a tremendous opportunity for the Portuguese entrepreneurial environment, and many Portuguese startups and investors acquired a special relevance and acknowledgment from big companies and other players in the overseas. For us as Sonae IM the opportunity to be in contact with all these tech companies and startups (1.490+) made us one step closer to our objective as Alexandre Santos says in an interview to “Sábado”: “Alexandre Teixeira dos Santos, Director of Portfolio Development at...
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