Capital and Quasi-Capital Instruments
Funds for driving innovation and competition in public-private partnership
The ICO Group boosts alternative financing channels through Axis, its venture capital subsidiary.
AXIS’s activity is focused on promoting the growth, development and internationalisation of Spanish companies through equity and quasi-equity instruments, within a framework of public-private partnership.
Currently, Axis manages four funds that deliver its two basic lines of investment:
- Direct: in companies and projects
- Indirect: in funds that then invest in companies
AXIS Funds
Find out how they work and their objectives
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Fond-ICO Next Tech
This is a joint venture between the ICO, Axis and the Secretary of State for Digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence, which aims to promote the development of innovative, high-impact digital projects and investment in scale-ups by strengthening public financing instruments, attracting international funds and boosting the venture capital sector
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Fond-ICO Global
It is the first public venture capital/private "fund of funds" created in Spain and aims to promote the creation of privately managed venture capital funds that invest in Spanish companies at all stages of development
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Fond-ICO Pyme
This fund focusses on investing in funds that invest in strategic or innovative segments of activity such as sustainability and social impact or the entrepreneurial ecosystem, while promoting complementary financing to banking through business angels or diversified debt (crowdlending/crowdfunding)
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Fond-ICO Infraestructuras ESG
Focused on participation in sustainable infrastructure projects in the transport, energy, social and service sectors, with a clear positive impact on people, climate and the environment