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Aurica Capital, private equity manager of Banco Sabadell Group, along with the company’s current shareholders, has signed an agreement with Artá ​​Capital, March’s Group venture capital development manager, to purchase 26,3% in Grupo Flex (Flex Group) for an amount close to 80M €. The funds managed by Arta Capital took this share in May 2011 through a capital increase, mainly intended to finance the Group’s international growth plan. Aurica Capital along with other co-investors will take a 19,16% share and current shareholders will increase their participation to 80,84%.

Gamelearn, specialized company in training video games development, closes its first institutional funding round with a €2 million investment of Venture Capital Kibo Ventures, one of the most relevant Venture Capital firms in Spain.

Gamelearn was created in 2007 as a pioneer company focus in the game-based learning development solutions. (Learning methodology based on video games use). A project led by three entrepreneurs with extensive experience in the management skills training field (Ibrahim Jabary, Mai Apraiz and Eduardo Monfort), who have led the company to become world leader in its sector with a completely revolutionary and innovative bet based In the “soft skills” development through video games.

The private equity firm GED, which operates in middle market segment, through its subsidiary GED Infrastructure, has completed the 8,27% share sale that its infrastructure fund boasted of Empark Aparcamientos y Servicios. The sale was made in favor of two of the current Empark Aparcamientos shareholders. The operation, closed in 2016, has ended in February after the bondholders syndicate approval that currently finances Empark.

The investment of GED Infrastructure fund in the project ran into 20,5 million euros, constituting one of the most relevant operations of the investment vehicle. The sale was made after the objectives for the investment were reached.