Tresmares Capital enters Portugal targeting SMEs with high growth potential – SMEs
Tresmares Capital, an independent financing platform – supported by Banco Santander – created in 2019 in Madrid, has just entered the Portuguese market.
The platform’s objective is to support investments in small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) “that are distinguished by their disruptive nature and that transform the sector in which they operate”, an intermediary in a statement. These include, for example, companies that invest in areas such as the circular economy / recycled packaging, natural ingredients or advanced healthcare.
“With flexible products and tailored solutions (traditional debt, direct loan, preferred shares and private equity), Tresmares Capital’s investment allows accelerating the development of these companies, allocating funds to organic and inorganic growth projects”, reference . Within this objective, a key element will be to support local private equity with capital solutions tailored to each situation.
Being an alternative reference point for SMEs is the main purpose of Tresmares Capital.
The method developed by this platform to identify market trends and companies with high growth potential results from a combination of artificial intelligence and data analysis. Among the companies with potential, those present in high-growth sectors, with double-digit growth in turnover (in the long term) and which reached an EBITDA of one million euros, stand out.
“Portugal is the second European country with more SMEs and many of them are creating a new paradigm within sectors that until now considered ‘traditional’. Portugal has been positioning itself as a reference in this type of disruption in the European context, being one of the countries where innovation performance has grown the most since 2012, “stresses Filipe Rodrigues, investment director at Tresmares Capital for Portugal.
“Our commitment to this market is in line with what we have been looking for in the universe of small and medium-sized companies since we started operating at the end of 2019. First in Spain, where we can invest – since 2020 – in 27 companies, and now in Portugal where we completed the first financing operation in early October in the context of the purchase of Gardengate by Equistone”, he adds.