Investors

Kiala is supported by several numerous and knowledgeable investors, including :

AGF Private Equity

AGF Private Equity, subsidiary of the AGF Group. AGF is the third largest insurance company in France. Since 1998, AGF has been a member of the German Allianz Group, the biggest insurance company in Europe. AGF Private Equity has acquired expertise in the follow-up of young, innovative companies. AGF Private Equity is managing EUR 150 million invested in more than 38 technological companies.

Arts Alliance

Founded in 1996, Arts Alliance is a venture capital organization, which advises on investments in the media and technology-based service sectors out of London and New York. Arts Alliance assists funds, which have invested, in more than 35 companies in Europe (Lastminute.com and Institutional Investors international that have both listed on the London Stock Exchange) and the USA (e.g. Spinner, PlanetAll, Launch and Firefly which have been sold respectively to AOL, Amazon, Yahoo and Microsoft).

HarbourVest Partners

HarbourVest Partners, LLC is an independent global private equity investment firm and registered investment advisor, providing vehicles for institutional investors to invest in the venture capital and buyout markets in the U.S., Europe, and elsewhere through primary partnerships, secondary purchases, and direct investments. HarbourVest and its subsidiaries have 127 employees, including 53 investment professionals, deployed in Boston, London, and Hong Kong. In 25 years of investing in private equity, the team has committed more than $15.4 billion to newly formed funds, purchases of secondary partnership interests and direct investments in operating companies.

Logispring

LogiSpring is a vertically focused venture capital firm investing in early-to-late-stage ventures with technologies and solutions expected to have a significant impact on global supply chains. LogiSpring focuses on a limited number of industries, including logistics, supply chain management, mail and express, and operates with a global mandate. The Firm's scope of supply chain activities covers the whole chain, from sourcing through conversion and assembly to distribution, and includes the planning, optimisation and execution management of manufacturing, transportation, logistics, mail and express delivery. Its current fund, LogiSpring Investment Fund, sizes USD 120 million. The Fund's charter is global, its portfolio mostly transatlantic. Investors in the Fund include TPG NV (formerly TNT Post Group NV) and management consultant Booz-Allen & Hamilton.

Part'Com (France)

Created in 1986 by the Caisse des Depots Group, Part'Com manages private equity investments in media & entertainment, communications and information technology ventures. With 500 million EUR under management in Europe and the US, Part'Com helps build successful companies such as SFR, Phone.com, Wavecom, Kiala...

Tempo

Tempo Capital Partners LLP («Tempo») is an advising firm on investment based in London. Tempo create and advise funds which acquire, manage and realise portfolios of venture and growth capital investments. Tempo is one of the leading investment firms in Europe in the field of “secondary direct ventures”. Tempo has completed 4 portfolio acquisitions and advises funds with some €200m of capital commitments and 50 investments., Tempo is the European leader. 

Main transactions that Tempo made public are: 
2004 – A fund advised by Tempo bought the risked actives of WestLB AG, financed by HarbourVest Partners, an international company that finance projects with equity capital for more than 20 billion US dollars.
2005 - Tempo created TempoPark Fund 1 LP, backed by Greenpark Capital, an equity capital investment company active on the secondary market and administrating 700 millions US dollars, to acquire a risk investment protfolio in the wireless technology of Siemens AG. 
2006 - Tempo created TempoVest Fund II LP, backed by HarbourVest Partners, to acquire investments previously held by V2 FCPR. 

XAnge Private Equity

Xange Capital is a venture-capital company recently established by the French group La Poste, which holds a 34% stake, and by several other prestigious institutional and industrial investors. The company, dedicated to the "World of the Exchanges" has an industrial focus on businesses related to postal activities, which are likely to generate synergies and partnerships. It benefits both from the contribution of the La Poste group and that of its technical partners Alten and Deloitte & Touche Corporate Finance.
Backed by major European companies and financial institutions, XAnge is an equity capital finance company administrating about 200 millions Euros of equities.
XAnge was launched in 2003 while the XAnge Capital was established. Xange Capital is a venture-capital company established by the French group La Poste.
XAnge Private Equity was created by La Banque Postale and ABN AMRO management, that developed since then a large pannel of competencies going from capital risk to development/transfer.
Xange helps growing companies as a minority active shareholder.
Xange chose to position itself as a link between big corporations and SME, to which it offers its expertise and an industrial vision, and not only its financial help.
XAnge has a strong team of 15 employees, among these 10 experts in investment, who play an active role in their companies financed with capital at risk.

Scottish Equity Partner

They are one of the leading European companies in capital at risk management. They provide investments and support during the first steps to create companies active in Information Technology, healthcare and energy technology.
From their offices in London and Glasgow, their team has strong capitals at risk and operational experience that insure their contribution to the success of the companies in which they invest. They backed up several big wellbeing technology companies such as CSR, Wolfson Microelectronics and Searchspace. Their current portfolio includes more than 50 leading-edge technology companies.