New perspectives for Carlson Investments S.A.
(IINews) - The company plans to become a leading player in the startup investment market.
Carlson Investments S.A. Capital Group has been listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange since 2009, however, over the past two years, the company has undergone major changes, one of the last elements of which was the entry of the subsidiary Carlson Investments Alternatywna Spółka Inwestycyjna S.A. to the Alternative Investment Company (ASI) management register. The company listed on the NewConnect market intends to become a leading player in the startup investment market and dynamically expand its investment portfolio in 2021 and 2022. Carlson plans to move to the main market of the Warsaw Stock Exchange and also make several investments in foreign markets. Also, at the request of major investors, a significant portion of the newly issued shares is to be admitted to trading on one of the new Nasdaq markets, characterized by high liquidity.
The main shareholder of the company is the Carlson Ventures International Limited fund, established in 2006 and managed by an investor from Monaco, Artur Piotr Jedrzejewski, with a capital of $ 100 million. Carlson Ventures International is also the largest shareholder in the EVIG ALFA venture capital fund, which successfully invests in startups on the Polish market.
To implement the investment mission, Carlson Investments ASI SA concluded cooperation agreements with both Evig Alfa and Carlson Ventures International. The company also signed in March this year. two letters of intent with entities in which it intends to invest around PLN 13 million ($ 3.4 million) - Epeer Sp. z o.o and Terrabio Sp. z o.o. According to President Aleksander Gruszczyński, ultimately the company intends to have up to 25 promising projects in the fintech, MedTech, and biotech sectors in its investment portfolio and is already intensively talking to other companies at various stages of development. Thanks to cooperation with Evig Alfa Carlson Investments has gained access and the possibility of co-investments in many innovative research and development projects with enormous growth potential and spectacular development prospects. In turn, the agreement with Carlson Ventures International guarantees easier access to capital and investment opportunities in larger foreign projects and startups on a global scale.
“2021 is a breakthrough year for the company in terms of its investment activities. In March, we signed two letters of intent regarding investments in promising projects in the biotech and fintech sector. We are also in the process of finalizing further potential investments. We want to have a rich investment portfolio, consisting of innovative companies from the most promising sectors of the economy, with the prospect of rapidly improving results along with its development. Both Polish and foreign investors notice our activity. The company''s capitalization in the last year increased more than 9 times to about PLN 140 million ($ 37 million), but this does not exhaust our potential, because the companies in the portfolio are still developing, and we are also implementing further investments, as evidenced by our recent activities. Ultimately, we want to have as many as 20-25 companies in our portfolio. Certainly, in the coming months, we will draw investors'' attention more than once again with our investment activity. Due to the dynamic development of the company, we plan to transfer our quotations to the main trading floor and a significant part of the shares from new issues to the foreign market "- comments Aleksander Gruszczynski, President of the Management Board at Carlson Investments S.A.
The company is particularly interested in investments in fintech, MedTech, cleantech, and biotech startups. The Management Board believes that these industries have the greatest potential for value appreciation. According to Kinga Debicka, a member of the supervisory board of Carlson Investments SA, the first Polish unicorn may be hidden in these areas. "Innovations are more valuable than ever, especially since the pandemic has completely changed business circumstances, in favor of companies with such a profile - accelerating processes or having a product that could be a potential game-changer in a given field" - believes Kinga Dębicka. An example is Klarna, the most expensive European fintech, which in March 2021 collected funding of $ 1 billion, which gave it a valuation of over $ 30 billion, or Afterpay, another start-up of the type "buy now, pay later" valued at $ 40 billion, which in the first half of 2021 achieved impressive sales of $ 10 billion.
In March this year. the company announced the conclusion of two letters of intent with innovative Polish companies from the fintech and biotech sectors. Epeer is an innovative fintech platform that uses artificial intelligence to connect investors and borrowers on a website and mobile application. The company solves the problem of financial liquidity understood as the inability to invest quickly and safely and borrow small amounts of money. Terrabio, on the other hand, offers quick diagnostics in the field of plant diseases, water, and food safety. The company has developed Terralyzer® - a mobile diagnostic device, innovative on a global scale. The Terrabio solution detects every predefined pathogen with almost 99.9% efficiency, which will radically support fruit and vegetable producers. Terrabio''s goal for 2021 is to bring the device into production, validate, certify and produce the first batch of devices. In 2022, it is planned to obtain certification and start market expansion.
The Carlson Investments S.A. Capital Group currently includes the well-known Software House - Techvigo Sp. zoo, Gaudi Management S.A. Carlson Capital Partners Sp. Zoo, and Hotblok Polska Sp. zoo - producer of innovative passive building materials and Carlson Investments Alternatywna Spółka Inwestycyjna S.A. and Bloom Voyages Sp. zoo, in which Carlson Investments S.A. owns 100% of shares and several smaller investments in shares and bonds of entities such as Reacom GmbH - backbone from Germany or One Palo Alto Deep Tech Ventures.
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About Carlson Investment S.A.
Carlson Investments S.A. is an investment company listed on the Newconnect WSE. The company''s goal is to invest in technological enterprises characterized by product or process innovation. The company focuses on investing in projects in the FinTech, MedTech, BioTech and CleanTech industries. Carlson Investments has a versatile and experienced investment team that affects the effectiveness of the projects it invests in. The operating model is based on active support for the development of enterprises in which the company has decided to invest.
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Datum: 28.05.2021 - 10:31 Uhr
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