ABE Capital has accelerated its investment activity in recent months with the addition of several companies to its portfolio, mainly across three key sectors: healthcare, energy and technology, consolidating its growth strategy.
The Bilbao-based investment firm, led by Javier Arana, has relaunched its investment pace and has just added LIS Data Solutions, a well-known technology consultancy specialising in big data and artificial intelligence, to its portfolio. The company is headquartered in Santa Cruz de Bezana, near Santander, and is often referred to in the media as a Cantabrian company, although its registered office is formally located in Álava, specifically in Vitoria.
The entry of ABE Capital reinforces the continuity of this structure in its new stage, as the Basque fund focuses on highly specialised mid-sized companies with growth potential that require capital to scale. Prior to this transaction, Radar Ventures, also based in Vitoria, was already among LIS Data Solutions’ shareholders.
With this deal, LIS Data Solutions becomes part of the LIS Global group, which includes the brand under which it operates in Spain and its German subsidiary Baitech Data.
With more than a decade of experience, the company, founded by Manuel Coterillo and Asier Barredo, provides digital services to companies based on two core pillars: data engineering and artificial intelligence, with a strong focus on industrial and logistics sectors.
The acquisition of LIS Data Solutions also marks ABE Capital’s return to its technological roots, an area in which it made its first investment through Plain Concepts shortly after its founding.
In parallel, over recent months the firm has completed several acquisitions in the energy and healthcare sectors, bringing its portfolio to nearly ten investee companies, including some newly created entities designed to consolidate business lines. In this context, it has recently launched the Mediance platform for healthcare distribution, a sector in which it is also present through Sermes CRO. It has also created Enerpath for investments in energy services, and earlier this year it launched Naturmet, linked to another fund portfolio company, Oleofat, focused on biomethane investments.
Last year, the Spanish central government announced an injection of more than €120 million into the Bilbao-based manager through the CDTI to support the growth of mid-sized companies, while the Basque regional government also makes annual contributions of around €3 million (as reflected in the 2026 budget).
LIS Global is an IT consulting platform specialising in data analytics and artificial intelligence solutions for a wide range of end markets. It operates as a one-stop shop for high-value niche applications, fully addressing clients’ needs in digitalisation, data management and AI, with operations in Spain and Germany.
The company stands out for its positioning in the fastest-growing segment of the Spanish IT market, with direct exposure to data analytics and AI, the most rapidly expanding areas in the sector; its end-to-end solutions that integrate advanced analytics, automation and AI into client operations; its strong base of leading industrial clients across sectors such as pharma, energy and real estate, with recurring relationships and high cross-selling potential; and its strengthened management team with extensive sector experience aligned with an accelerated growth strategy.
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