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    Novabase Capital, Sociedade de Capital de Risco, SA is a venture capital firm owned entirely by Novabase SGPS, SA. Its main purpose is to find and support Portuguese ICT business projects – in early development or expanding – with high value potential and synergies with Novabase.

    Novabase Capital manages the Novabase Capital venture capital fund, with a provision of €7.14 million, held by Novabase Capital (30%) and IAPMEI/Institute for the Support of Small and Medium Enterprises (70%) through the PRIME Program, with co-funding from the European Union via the ERDF.

    In 2010, the Novabase Capital venture capital fund’s portfolio included the following affiliates:

    Manchete – Estudos, Tratamento e Gestão da Informação, SA
    Manchete is a company specializing in information and focusing on the areas of media analysis (TV, radio, Internet, newspapers and magazines), competitive intelligence and reputation.

    Forward – Tecnologias de Informação, SA
    Forward provides services in the area of information technologies, particularly targeting the telecommunications sector, and has developed an innovative product for mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs).

    Dosapac – Automação de Edifícios, SA
    Company specializing in designing and installing building management systems integrating centralized technical management, home automation and specific control systems.

    Collab – Soluções Informáticas de Comunicação e Colaboração, SA
    Software company that developed OneContact, a multimedia contact centre solution over IP, which integrates

  • all customer relationship channels. Ongoing investments in R&D have been widely acknowledged in the international markets where it operates.

    Globaleda – Telecomunicações e Sistemas de Informação, SA
    Company dedicated to the innovative development of information technologies in the Azores. It manages a network of its own outlets covering main Azorean islands, is the third largest Vodafone agent in Portugal, and performs maintenance activities for telecommunications infrastructures in the Azores and mainland Portugal.

    In view of its expanded business activities, Novabase Capital applications were submitted and approved for SAFPRI (Support System for the Financing and Risk Sharing

    of Innovation) assistance under the QREN, co-funded by the European Union via the ERDF, for investment in technology based SME’s in the ICT sector. As such, two specific provisions are in the process of being formalized and activated up to an amount of €11.36 million. The first provision in the amount of €10.1 million is earmarked for financing investment projects geared toward innovation, modernization and internationalization of SME’s headquartered in northern, central and the Alentejo regions of Portugal, with the COMPETE Program contributing €5.0 million. The second in the amount of €1.26 million allocated to the Lisbon region with a contribution from POR Lisboa in the amount of €0.5 million is targeted toward financing investment projects in Early Stage phase.

    In 2010, Novabase Capital’s turnover was €3.3 million with

    an EBITDA margin of 12.5%. 

     

     

     

     

     

     






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