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 (ots/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 EUR1 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(TM)."

Amit Pau, Ariadne Capital London MD and Partner, ECO2 Investment
Platform, said, "Over the course of the past 16 years, Ariadne
Capital has backed explosive growth companies, completed more than