Axon Partners Group is a global Investment, Alternative Asset Manager and Advisory firm with presence and experience in over 60 countries.
Axon combines the flexibility and speed of boutiques, and the capabilities and reach that only large organizations can provide.
Axon provides support to governments in defining digital economy policies, supports entrepreneurs in their first ventures, advices in M&A transactions and helps mid-sized companies to get equity finance; with excellent and proven track record in digital economy, energy and life sciences sectors.
Axon was founded in 2006 and has grown to create a team of more than 80 experts in our offices in Madrid, Istanbul, Mexico City, Bogotá, Riyadh, and Seville.
Francisco Velázquez de Cuellar. Group President
Alfonso de Leon. CEO Investment
Dimitri Kallinis. CEO Advisory
Investment Team:
Javier Martinez de Irujo. Principal Investment. Europe
Vicente Zamorano. Principal Investment. Europe
Luis Castañeda. Principal Investment. Latam
Miguel Vallone. Principal Investment. Latam
Mauro Yovane. Principal Fund of Funds
Ivan Semenov. Manager Fund of Funds
1.- INVESTMENT DIVISION: Axon manages c. €300m of AUM across 2 main strategies:
*DIRECT INVESTMENT: 5 VC funds in Southern Europe, Latin America, and India. 40 tech investments,13 exits, 2.7x Avg Realized MOIC, 21.3% IRR and 2 IPOs.
*FUND OF FUNDS (Aurora platform) : The first technology VC Fund of Funds in Europe. Through Aurora, we enable access to digital tech, deep tech, and life science alternative investments (sectors that are generating the best returns), in a thoughtful well-diversified manner, combining primaries, secondaries, and co-investments.
2.- ADVISORY DIVISION: Axon Advisory has managed >500 projects in >60 countries in technology sector, covering 3 strategies:
*STRATEGY AND OPERATIONS: provides strategy consulting services to an international client base in the broad technology sector.
*PUBLIC POLICY AND REGULATION: end-to-end support in the definition and drafting of the whole legislative/regulatory process.
*CORPORATE FINANCE: successfully executed transactions of over €1bn in the technology and innovation sectors, as well as transaction advice over €50bn.
3.- WEALTH MANAGEMENT (FINIZENS): Axon Wealth manages >€200M from >10.000 customers increasing in €10m monthly. Finizens is a stand-alone division that acts as an asset manager specializing in passive investment. It combines the latest advances in the fields of technology and finance ("robo-advisor") to spread the benefits of passive investment services.
Our mission is to provide added value to our investors, combining excellence with entrepreneurship. We build unique and long-term relationships, for both our investors and fund managers.
Our international experience and unparallel VC and consulting expertise worldwide, allows us to deploy unique investment strategies serving as a key partner in the technology sector.
Axon invests in the technology and innovation sector in Europe, Latin America and India through Venture Capital Funds and Fund of Funds.