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 - Seite 2

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 £600 million of transactions and investments, and led the innovation agenda in the EU with EntrepreneurCountry Global since 2008." 

EntrepreneurCountry Global (EC Global), with more than 300,000 early adopter 'citizens', test pilots new applications brought by the Digital Enabler community to Goliaths who are seeking to become platforms and Ecosystem Economics® firms. EC Global is now launching in Malta where it will test pilot with Malta's 450,000 population which represents approximately 0.1% of the EU population of 508 million EU citizens.

"Malta has a terrific blend of AngloSaxon practices, Mediterannean joie de vivre, and obsessive social media engagement," said Julie Meyer. "We are leveraging the ability of Malta to give Goliaths and Davids quantitative and qualitative feedback on the product/ market fit of their new ventures.  The EntrepreneurCountry Global team and platform will bring new engagement methods and formats for helping David and Goliath to dance."

In addition to the 20 strong team in Ariadne Capital London, Ariadne Capital Malta will be resourcing for the ECO2 Investment Platform and EntrepreneurCountry Global for its Malta-based team. Ariadne Malta will be launching a campus in Malta 1H 2017.

Two new Senior Advisors join Ariadne Capital in Malta:

-  Mikko Pukhalla, who first worked with Julie Meyer as First Tuesday Helsinki in 1999 and 2000. Mikko spent 5+ years in China and brings a wealth of relationships from Asia Pacific.

-  Malcolm Ross, a veteran of the mobile telecoms world, whose trackrecord is immense from small and large company growth and transformation

Ariadne Capital Group Limited will be making two additional acquisitions imminently.

 

Ariadne Capital, http://www.ariadnecapital.com , was founded in December 2000 by Julie Meyer, the Founder of First Tuesday, which ignited the Internet Generation across the EU with its 45 city network, and 500,000 community of Internet 1.0 entrepreneurs.    Ariadne pioneered the 'Entrepreneurs Backing Entrepreneurs' model for the financing of entrepreneurship across the EU in 2000 before any other institutional venture capital fund had placed founders / entrepreneurs as their founding shareholders. Its founding shareholders include the founders of BetFair, Easynet, Element14, Fusion Systems, Good Data, Hotmail, SES Astra, WILINK, WorldPay and others.