Ariadne Capital Announces the EU's first 'Plug and Play' Investment Platform, the Acquisition of Portcullis Asset Management, and New Capital to Back Europe's Entrepreneurs

London (ots/PRNewswire) -

Expanding its Reach Across the EU, Ariadne Capital Launches
EntrepreneurCountry Malta, and the Ecosystem Economics Investment
Platform, and Announces new Senior Advisors

20 January 2017...From London, UK and Malta, EU

Ariadne Capital has acquired Portcullis Asset Management (PAML) in
Malta in December 2016, run by David Barry, who becomes Ariadne
Capital's Managing Director there reporting to Julie Meyer, CEO of
Ariadne Capital Group Limited, renaming PAML to Ariadne Capital
Malta.

Ariadne Malta manages the Ecosystem Economics® Investment Platform
(ECO2 Investment Platform), the EU's first 'plug and play' investment
platform enabling large asset allocators who wish to participate in
the upside of the high growth and positive returns of European
technology venture capital to do so.David Barry said, "In a low oil
price and low interest rate world, pension funds, sovereign wealth
funds and family offices are seeking the returns of tech VC in
Europe, and need the ability to write a big ticket, want the
diversification and service level guarantee that we can provide to
them."

The ECO2 Investment Platform will do an imminent first close in Q1
of its EUR1 bn target AUM with several sub-funds or partner funds
plugged into its platform, based out of Malta, but investing across
the EU.

Ariadne Capital Group Limited, also based in Malta which manages
the Ariadne Group including the ECO2 Investment Platform, has secured
capital from leading technology and financial services entrepreneurs
and executives including David Rowe (founder of EasyNet, Managing
Partner at Black Green Capital), Stuart Roden (Lansdowne Capital),
Eric Salama (Kantar CEO), Gerhard Huber (leading fintech entrepreneur
and investor), Mark Schneider (Liberty Global), Karl Strobl (ex
Deutsche Bank Asset Management), Mike Alfant (Fusion Systems),
Michael Moszynski (CEO of London Advertising), Julie Meyer (Founder/
CEO of Ariadne Capital, EntrepreneurCountry Global and First
Tuesday), and several others.

Julie Meyer said, "Platforms have come to every industry. It was
inevitable that they would come to European venture capital. We
provide accelerators, new funds, family offices which seek third
party capital, corporate venturing spin-outs as well as angel funds
an efficient means to get into the fund management business quickly,
but more importantly to take advantage of the Ariadne Capital Fund
Stack(TM)."

Amit Pau, Ariadne Capital London MD and Partner, ECO2 Investment
Platform, said, "Over the course of the past 16 years, Ariadne
Capital has backed explosive growth companies, completed more than
£600 million of transactions and investments, and led the innovation
agenda in the EU with EntrepreneurCountry Global since 2008."

EntrepreneurCountry Global (EC Global), with more than 300,000
early adopter 'citizens', test pilots new applications brought by the
Digital Enabler community to Goliaths who are seeking to become
platforms and Ecosystem Economics® firms. EC Global is now launching
in Malta where it will test pilot with Malta's 450,000 population
which represents approximately 0.1% of the EU population of 508
million EU citizens.

"Malta has a terrific blend of AngloSaxon practices, Mediterannean
joie de vivre, and obsessive social media engagement," said Julie
Meyer. "We are leveraging the ability of Malta to give Goliaths and
Davids quantitative and qualitative feedback on the product/ market
fit of their new ventures. The EntrepreneurCountry Global team and
platform will bring new engagement methods and formats for helping
David and Goliath to dance."

In addition to the 20 strong team in Ariadne Capital London,
Ariadne Capital Malta will be resourcing for the ECO2 Investment
Platform and EntrepreneurCountry Global for its Malta-based team.
Ariadne Malta will be launching a campus in Malta 1H 2017.

Two new Senior Advisors join Ariadne Capital in Malta:

- Mikko Pukhalla, who first worked with Julie Meyer as First
Tuesday Helsinki in 1999 and 2000. Mikko spent 5+ years in China and
brings a wealth of relationships from Asia Pacific.

- Malcolm Ross, a veteran of the mobile telecoms world, whose
trackrecord is immense from small and large company growth and
transformation

Ariadne Capital Group Limited will be making two additional
acquisitions imminently.

Ariadne Capital, http://www.ariadnecapital.com , was founded in
December 2000 by Julie Meyer, the Founder of First Tuesday, which
ignited the Internet Generation across the EU with its 45 city
network, and 500,000 community of Internet 1.0 entrepreneurs.
Ariadne pioneered the 'Entrepreneurs Backing Entrepreneurs' model for
the financing of entrepreneurship across the EU in 2000 before any
other institutional venture capital fund had placed founders /
entrepreneurs as their founding shareholders. Its founding
shareholders include the founders of BetFair, Easynet, Element14,
Fusion Systems, Good Data, Hotmail, SES Astra, WILINK, WorldPay and
others.

Ariadne Capital through its Ariadne Capital Entrepreneurs Fund
(ACE) and Ariadne Capital Corporate Finance over the past 16 have
helped to build the following European technology success stories:
BeatThatQuote (sold to Google for 122x EBITDA), Espotting, Monitise,
Quill, Skype, Zopa. Notable portfolio companies in the ACE fund
include: Autograph, Beat.tv, MADE TV, Matternet, Moneydashboard,
Norwood, Orson, Quill, Shopitise.

Ariadne Capital is the owner of Ecosystem Economics® which is the
Digital Playbook that it has developed since 2008 and which is being
serialised in an Executive Education course with Warwick University
in 1H 2017. Julie Meyer was given an honorary doctorate by the
Economics Department of Warwick University in 2012 for Ecosystem
Economics.

Ariadne Capital invests in 10 Ecosystems (Smart Home,
Transportation & Mobility, Content & Commerce, Health, Manufacturing
& Supply Chain, Personal Development, Insurance, Fund Management,
Travel/Media/Leisure/Entertainment, Satellites/ Networks / Data
Communications). EntrepreneurCountry Global manages these Ecosystems,
providing engagement points for Davids, Goliaths and citizens to play
into the digital opportunity.

The Ariadne Capital Fund Stack consists of the Ecosystem
Economics® Investment Strategy, the EntrepreneurCountry Global
Operating Platform, and the Ariadne Capital Malta Regulatory
Platform.

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