Santander

Banco Santander is a global multinational bank in 2012 was confirmed for the third time in recent years, such as the Best Bank in the World, according to the annual ranking of Euromoney . At the end of last year, Santander was the largest in the Eurozone and one of the thirteen largest in the world by market capitalization: 63.000 million euros. Based on a business model that focuses on products and commercial banking services to individuals, small businesses and companies, Santander now serves over 100 million customers a global network of 14,400 offices, the largest banking international. Manages funds 1,388 billion euros for all customer segments, has more than 3.3 million employees and 187,000 shareholders. Founded in 1857 in the Spanish city of Santander on 76 businessmen linked to the regional economy and colonial trade in Spain with America, over one hundred Banco Santander rose during the twentieth century all rungs of the financial ladder to become the twenty-first century in a global banking leader concerning good management and solvency of the sector, with a strong presence in ten countries on two continents, Europe and America, and businesses in more than forty different markets. Today, Santander is the largest financial group in his home country, Spain, and also in Latin America, a continent where its most important markets are Brazil, Mexico, Chile and Argentina. It has achieved very high positions in the UK, Germany, Portugal, Poland and the U.S. northeast. It also offers consumer financing, in addition to these major markets in the Nordic countries plus the Netherlands, Austria, Italy and Belgium.
CB

Carlos Berastain

Head of Investor Relations and Market Intelligence

YW

Yuong Wee Chong

Investor Relations Manager

FD

Fernando Donoso

Head of Investor Relations, Equity

SG

Sergio Gámez

Global Head of Shareholder and Investor Relations

JA

José Antonio Álvarez

Vice Chairman and CEO

Past deals in Venezuela

FacePhi

Post in 2020
FacePhi is the leading Spanish company in biometric solutions for identity verification, specialized in facial recognition systems, digital onboarding and safe work environments. Based in Alicante and operating worldwide, the company has a presence in more than 25 countries, has performed more than 1 trillion authentications, 21 million access programs and has a strong presence in the banking sector. The drive of biometrics to improve customer experience and protect data from citizens and entities is the hallmark of the firm.

Ample

Private Equity Round in 2021
Ample utilizes autonomous robotics and smart-battery technology to solve the energy delivery challenge for electric transportation. It created an economical, rapidly deployable, and widely accessible platform that delivers a full charge to any electric car in minutes. The aim is to make it possible to have “Electric Cars for Everyone”. It was founded in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Housfy Real Estate

Series B in 2022
Housfy Real Estate, S.L. owns and operates an online real estate platform. It offers floors and houses for individuals, free appraisal of flats, home appraisals, online valuation on cadastral reference, online real estate services, mortgage simulator services, and real estate portals. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Barcelona, Spain with an additional office location in Madrid, Spain.

FacePhi

Post in 2020
FacePhi is the leading Spanish company in biometric solutions for identity verification, specialized in facial recognition systems, digital onboarding and safe work environments. Based in Alicante and operating worldwide, the company has a presence in more than 25 countries, has performed more than 1 trillion authentications, 21 million access programs and has a strong presence in the banking sector. The drive of biometrics to improve customer experience and protect data from citizens and entities is the hallmark of the firm.

Amherst Pierpont

Acquisition in 2021
Amherst Pierpont Securities was formed through the merger of Amherst Securities (founded 1993) and Pierpont Securities (founded 2009).

SamyRoad

Debt Financing in 2019
SamyRoad is an influencer marketing company that offers an end-to-end service to global brands willing to collaborate and create content with influencers. Powered by its own AI, ShineBuzz, which analyzes and classifies influencers and its audiences, together with a global team of marketing experts who work with the brands through all the process. SamyRoad was founded in 2013 and operates in more than 40 countries.

Abbey National

Acquisition in 2004
Abbey National plc was a UK-based bank and former building society, which latterly traded under the Abbey brand name. As the former Abbey National Building Society, it was the first building society in the UK to demutualise, doing so in July 1989. The bank expanded through a number of acquisitions in the 1990s, including James Hay, Scottish Mutual, Scottish Provident and the rail leasing company Porterbrook. Abbey National launched an online bank, Cahoot, in 2000. The bank rebranded as Abbey in 2003 and became a wholly owned subsidiary of the Spanish Santander Group in 2004. In January 2010, the savings business of Bradford & Bingley was combined with the bank, and Abbey National plc was renamed Santander UK plc. Prior to the takeover, Abbey National plc was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.

Visible Alpha

Venture Round in 2018
Visible Alpha is developing a proprietary new dataset and suite of tools to enhance institutional investors'​ ability to generate quantifiable insight into the future fundamentals of companies. By unlocking the intelligence and perspectives that have always been hidden behind analysts’ models, Visible Alpha is providing a new level of visibility and granularity into analysts'​ forecasts, assumptions and opinions to help investors generate alpha.
Cranfield University is a postgraduate university that specializes in education and transformational research in various technologies, development, and designs. The university’s schools and departments include Cranfield College of Aeronautics, Cranfield Postgraduate Medical School, and Cranfield University at Kitakyushu, Japan. The institute offers research degrees such as doctor of philosophy, doctor of business administration, engineering doctorate, master of philosophy, and master of science. Cranfield University is a U.K.-based institute that was founded in 1946.

El Corte Inglés, S.A.

Acquisition in 2013
Informática El Corte Inglés, company Information Technology and Communications, specializes in providing technology consulting services, ICT solutions and outsourcing, which provides the necessary innovation to adapt to new business models company.

Carfinco Financial Group

Acquisition in 2015
Carfinco Financial Group Inc. provides vehicle financing to consumers who are not able to obtain it from more traditional lending sources. Carfinco purchases loans made by select independent and franchised vehicle dealers in all ten Canadian provinces. Carfinco is a company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX). Our trading symbol is CFN. Our head office and credit/collection center is located in Edmonton, Alberta.

Banco Pan S.A.

Post in 2022
Banco Pan S.A. operates as a middle-sized financial institution in Brazil. It offers payroll loans, vehicle financing, and credit cards. The company also provides services in the areas of consortium, insurance, securitization of real estate, and agribusiness receivables. In addition, it offers investment products, such as bank deposit certificates, real estate and agribusiness letters of credit, financial bills, interbank deposits, and Eurobonds. The company distributes its products and services through correspondent banks, authorized dealerships, multi-brand new and used vehicle shops, and real estate partners. The company was formerly known as Banco Panamericano S.A. and changed its name to Banco Pan S.A. in August 2014. Banco Pan S.A. is based in São Paulo, Brazil. Banco Pan S.A. is a subsidiary of Banco BTG Pactual S.A.

Three Melons

Seed Round in 2009
Three Melons is a game studio that develops online games on free-to-play business models, both with original IP and well-established third party properties, designed for Advertising and Entertainment. It was founded in December 2005 by Mariano Suárez Battán, CEO and Patricio Jutard, CTO, with the support of angel investors. The founders were recently selected as [Endeavor Entrepreneurs](http://www.endeavor.org). The company started in the niche market of advergames (games for advertising), and during the last three years, has amassed an impressive clientele, developing games for advertisers and media companies such as Disney, Coca-Cola, MTV, Audi, Discovery Networks and LEGO. With award-winning advergames, such as [LEGO’s Indiana Jones](http://indianajones.lego.com/en-US/games/default.aspx) – which had 14 million unique users worldwide - Three Melons was ushered onto the international stage. The company aims to make the world play short to mid session, easy to access, visually and gameplay rich multiplayer Web games in Flash and [Unity3D](http://www.unity3d.com). Daiquiri, a Flash game development framework and Camarero, a multiplayer server and infrastructure, are the studio's proprietary tools that empower the creation of the games. The company is headquartered in Buenos Aires, Argentina and has a Business Development office in Los Angeles.

Banco Popular

Acquisition in 2017
Banco Popular provides banking products and services. The company operates through four segments: Commercial Banking, Asset Management and Insurance, Real Estate Area, and Institutional and Market Area.

JIO

Debt Financing in 2018
Reliance Jio Infocomm is a company providing wireless telecom products and services. The Company offers voice, data, and messaging services, as well as distributes smartphones and hotspot devices. Its areas of research, development and new service deployment include blockchain, artificial intelligence, open source platforms, IOT, data analytics, and next-gen cloud services.

Grupo Financiero Santander, SAB de CV

Acquisition in 1996
Grupo Financiero Santander, SAB de CV provides securities brokerage and finance services.

Soltec Trackers

Debt Financing in 2018
Soltec, the Third Largest Tracker Supplier Worldwide in 2017, manufactures and supplies cost-effective horizontal single-axis solar trackers and related services. Soltec enjoys top-tier customers repeating business thanks to their history in solar tracking and to their amazing team dedicated to customer experience and innovation. Highly dedicated to innovative research and product enhancement to offer the industry’s premier technology, the company reached annual shipments of 1,097 GW worldwide. Its facilities are in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile, China, Denmark, India, Israel, Italy, Mexico, Peru, Spain and the United States. Soltec enjoys repeating customers thanks to its high-tolerance installation and reliability to meet project criteria of schedule, cost and quality.

Ebury

Acquisition in 2019
Ebury is a financial services company designed to empower small and medium-sized businesses that want to trade internationally. With Ebury’s integrated financial services and technology, small and mid-size companies can make and receive payments in foreign currencies, enjoy better exchange rates, use emerging-market currencies, hedge currency risk, benefit from liquidity, and finance transactions in more than 100 currencies, easily with a managed service. In addition, its white-label products are offered via brokers and accountants. Ebury is a growing financial services companies, employing more than 170 people across offices in London, Madrid, and Amsterdam. Its clients include more than 3,000 mid-size companies. It is regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.

Infoxel Media Labs

Series A in 2007
Infoxel Media Labs leads Media companies, Publishers and Advertisers to the future by harnessing the power of machine learning and data analysis to control, scale and bridge their assets in the new media industry through SaaS platforms.

Yu-Track

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Yu-Track is a Field Sales Force Automation management tool (SFA), specially designed for small and medium-sized companies, that gives visibility of the activities and performance of field employees. Yu-Track mobile Application, uses the smartphone GPS, to automatically Check-in and Check-out, every time one of the employees, arrives at a specific meeting. Using business intelligence, in a reliable and smart way, we can display KPI´s and reports in our Dashboard. That allows better understanding, for strategic decision making. We see a huge potential in syncing up Yu-Track with any CRM or ERP software because it will automatically update the data, avoiding mistakes and saving time. The process will become simpler by showing where the leads are and their hierarchy, the routes for field employees are more efficient and planning visits, will never be a problem again. We will create a version of Yu-Track as an Ad-Inn for CRM software and offer our powerful API for other services.

Axesor Marketing Intelligence

Venture Round in 2000
Axesor Marketing Intelligence is a company providing ratings, risk management systems, and business, financial and marketing knowledge.

Toro Investimentos

Acquisition in 2020
Toro Investments is a fintech investment company that helps its clients to find the best opportunities in the market and invest.

Salumedia

Debt Financing in 2014
Salumedia is a global company with strong focus on R&D that works in the development of disruptive precision digital health solutions, including chronic patient support, cancer prevention (mHealth for smoking cessation) and also cancer self-management (e.g. mHealth for people living with cancer). We are experienced in piloting our technology in Europe (Norway, Spain, Iceland, Greece, etc.), the USA/Latin-Americas and Middle-East (Qatar) and Asia (Taiwan). Our core competencies are data-driven behavioral change and gamification.

Traak Ltda.

Seed Round in 2013
We are a software company that elaborates technology research, generating knowledge which we implement into all of our developments. We offer the best experience for our clients. When we plan and develop a new project, we make sure that all of the work is useful for both the client and the final user. Our team strives to constantly innovate in design, development and engineering to come up with the right solution. We challenge ourselves to solve difficult problems and live each day improving our craft. which allow us to maintain a fluid relationship with our clientes. We are captivated by unexplored areas because they invite us to innovate and make the most of new technologies. Traak works as a cohesive and connected team, challenging each other as well as ourselves. Every aspect of a project is run by every team member who gives their input and knowledge in it. We love our work which makes it fun and motivating. We applaud team achievments as well as individual successes. There is a strong element of trust in this team because we work with energetic and truly passionate people each with their own professional trajectory. We comment, analize and execute together because many times, from a seemingly simple idea, great projects spring forth. We believe the secret to innovation is perseverance and we do not tire of looking for ways to improve in everything we see and do.

Connecting-Visions

Debt Financing in 2021
Connecting-Visions develops an open ecosystem of experts and technology to help SMEs face their challenges.

NBD | Nostrum Biodiscovery

Seed Round in 2016
NBD is a biotech company working together with several major pharmaceutical companies in Europe and the US and has a wide knowledge of the requirements of pharmaceutical companies working in rational drug design. NBD advantages are its technologies, allowing the saving of costs and the acceleration of the whole process. Secondly, the level of calculation and prediction capacity by computation, which directly impacts research reliability. Lastly, the team experience and the research excellence which has been strongly demonstrated by the internationally-recognized institutions that support this project for years now.

Seabras-1

Debt Financing in 2016
Seaborn Networks is comprised of telecom executives who bring a successful track record in developing, financing, constructing, operating and maintaining many of the world's largest submarine and terrestrial telecom networks.

FacePhi

Debt Financing in 2020
FacePhi is the leading Spanish company in biometric solutions for identity verification, specialized in facial recognition systems, digital onboarding and safe work environments. Based in Alicante and operating worldwide, the company has a presence in more than 25 countries, has performed more than 1 trillion authentications, 21 million access programs and has a strong presence in the banking sector. The drive of biometrics to improve customer experience and protect data from citizens and entities is the hallmark of the firm.

Mercury TFS

Acquisition in 2020
Mercury TFS specializes in software solutions that automate the end-to-end management of trade finance transactions for corporate customers.

Elavon México

Acquisition in 2020
Elavon México is a company that provides the best payment solutions and processing environments.

Innitius

Seed Round in 2020
Diagnostic of preterm birth risk and induction labor success probabilities through the use of torsional ultrasound technology

Alliance & Leicester

Acquisition in 2008
Alliance & Leicester engages in the provision of corporate loans in the United Kingdom. The company and its subsidiaries provide a comprehensive range of banking and financial services to personal, and business and public sector customers in the United Kingdom. It offers retail banking products, such as mortgages, retail savings, current accounts, and personal loans, as well as legal and general life assurance, and long term investment products. Its commercial banking services include money transmission; lending; business, telephone, and Internet banking; and treasury services. The company has a network of approximatley 2,500 ATMs throughout the United Kingdom. Alliance & Leicester was founded in 1852 and is headquartered in Narborough, the United Kingdom.

MarketInvoice

Series B in 2019
MarketFinance is a business finance company with offices in London and Manchester. The online platform enables businesses to access a range of flexible finance solutions — quickly and easily. This smart technology is backed by help from real people so business owners can save time and focus on growing their business. Since 2011, MarketFinance has advanced over £2.6 billion to companies across a range of sizes and sectors, providing working capital and finance for everything from paying staff and suppliers to launching new products or services and accelerating growth. MarketFinance is backed by Barclays, Santander InnoVentures, European venture capital fund Northzone (invested in Klarna, iZettle, and Trustpilot), private equity group MCI Capital (also invested in iZettle, Azimo, and Gett), and Viola Credit.

Patagon.com

Acquisition in 2000
Patagon.com in Miami, an Internet destination for financial services in the Americas, acquired Open Bank, the largest online bank in Spain and a subsidiary of the BSCH (NYSE: STD) banking group.

BZW Bank

Acquisition in 2011
Bank Zachodni WBK SA is a Poland-based commercial bank. It offers a range of banking services for private and business entities. The Bank operates through a network of retail branches in Poland, as well as automatic teller machines (ATM). Its operations are supported by mobile sellers, who are able to reach its clients in smaller cities. It also offers such services as securities intermediation, leasing, factoring, asset and fund management, insurance, and shares trading. The Bank issues payment cards and credit cards. Its customers are also offered access to their funds via the Internet, fixed-line telephones and mobile phones.

Wirecard - technological assets

Acquisition in 2020
Wirecard - technological assets include payment solutions for merchants for acquiring and issuance services.

Monitise

Post in 2014
Monitise is a technology and services company that delivers mobile banking, payments, and commerce networks worldwide. Monitise enables financial institutions and other payments companies to defend and extend their market position by protecting their existing customer relationships and transactions while enabling new forms of mobile commerce revenue. Monitise powers bank-grade solutions that are delivered on premise, or via cloud services. The value of payments and transfers initiated via Monitise’s technology platform is more than US $20 billion on an annualized basis. The company provides services to more than 350 financial institutions and other leading brands globally, have 30 million users and strategic partnerships with Visa Inc., Visa Europe, RBS Group, Telefónica Digital, and FIS to develop and deliver Mobile Money services. Monitise was founded by Alastair Lukies in 2003 and has expanded its services to the UK, the US, Turkey, India, Hong Kong, and Indonesia.

Albert

Acquisition in 2018
Albert, your pocket bookkeeper, automates and makes daily bookkeeping simple for people working for themselves. An innovative, fast growing technology company, disrupting business finance management for freelancers. Backed by the investors behind Skype, Wix and Azimo, the company launched their platform publicly in early 2016, and has been recognised as UK startup of the year. With over 2,500 five-star ratings in the app store, Albert is the UK’s highest rated finance app for freelancers and has been featured by Apple six times on the front of the app store.