Marco Polo News

March 18, 2016 - CLOUD4WI (http://cloud4wi.com), in San Francisco, CA-based provider of a services platform for advanced guest Wi-Fi, raised $8m in funding. That company was set up from a young Italian team from Pisa that moved in San Francisco some years ago.The round, which follows a $4m Series A funding raised in 2014 led by United Ventures and advised by Marco Polo, will allow the company to expand operations globally as was reported in the Marco Polo Advisor newsletter ITALIAN CLOUDS ON SAN FRANCISCO (read).

May 12 - May 15, 2016 – Marco Polo Advisor (with Alberto Romersa) participated to the Global AICA Meeting in Tokyo (Alliance of International Corporate Advisors). The Tokyo Global Meeting took place with over 30 attendees travelling from all over the world to converge in Japan where new international projects (in particular in the automation, medical ad IT field) were discussed and the relationships and cooperation between AICA members strengthened (http://www.aoica.org).

Marco Polo Advisor has concluded six extraordinary operations in 2015, confirming previous year’s good results. An extremely productive year, both upon supervised projects and concluded transactions.During last year 18 projects of advisory on corporate finance have been managed, in particular:- Six projects have been concluded with an extraordinary operation, worthwhile noting the capital cession of Visirun to the international group Fleetmatics; a cession of a shareholding in Comecer to Principia Sgr fund and Bootes’s investment in Visirun; thus achieving 32 transactions of M&A [...]

Fleetmatics, a leader global provider of fleet management saas solutions, listed on the NYSE, acquires italian player Visirun. November 3, 2015 - Fleetmatics Group PLC (NYSE: FLTX), a leading global provider of mobile workforce solutions for service-based businesses of all sizes delivered as software-as-a-service (SaaS), today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Visirun S.p.A. (“Visirun”), a SaaS-based provider of fleet management solutions headquartered in Ferrara, Italy. Visirun will add approximately 28,000 vehicles under subscription to Fleetmatics’ existing [...]