Ariadne Capital Announces the EU's first 'Plug and Play' Investment Platform, the Acquisition of Portcullis Asset Management, and New Capital to Back Europe's Entrepreneurs

LONDON, January 20, 2017 /PRNewswire/ --

Expanding its Reach Across the EU, Ariadne Capital Launches EntrepreneurCountry Malta, and the Ecosystem Economics Investment Platform, and Announces new Senior Advisors

20 January 2017...From London, UK and Malta, EU

Ariadne Capital has acquired Portcullis Asset Management (PAML) in Malta in December 2016, run by David Barry, who becomes Ariadne Capital's Managing Director there reporting to Julie Meyer, CEO of Ariadne Capital Group Limited, renaming PAML to Ariadne Capital Malta.  

Ariadne Malta manages the Ecosystem Economics® Investment Platform (ECO2 Investment Platform), the EU's first 'plug and play' investment platform enabling large asset allocators who wish to participate in the upside of the high growth and positive returns of European technology venture capital to do so.David Barry said, "In a low oil price and low interest rate world, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and family offices are seeking the returns of tech VC in Europe, and need the ability to write a big ticket, want the diversification and service level guarantee that we can provide to them."

The ECO2 Investment Platform will do an imminent first close in Q1 of its €1 bn target AUM with several sub-funds or partner funds plugged into its platform, based out of Malta, but investing across the EU.

Ariadne Capital Group Limited, also based in Malta which manages the Ariadne Group including the ECO2 Investment Platform, has secured capital from leading technology and financial services entrepreneurs and executives including David Rowe (founder of EasyNet, Managing Partner at Black Green Capital), Stuart Roden (Lansdowne Capital), Eric Salama (Kantar CEO), Gerhard Huber (leading fintech entrepreneur and investor), Mark Schneider (Liberty Global), Karl Strobl (ex Deutsche Bank Asset Management), Mike Alfant (Fusion Systems), Michael Moszynski (CEO of London Advertising), Julie Meyer (Founder/ CEO of Ariadne Capital, EntrepreneurCountry Global and First Tuesday), and several others.

Julie Meyer said, "Platforms have come to every industry.  It was inevitable that they would come to European venture capital. We provide accelerators, new funds, family offices which seek third party capital, corporate venturing spin-outs as well as angel funds an efficient means to get into the fund management business quickly, but more importantly to take advantage of the Ariadne Capital Fund Stack™."