As Europe transitions to a digital and energy-efficient economy, many tech startups focapplyd on critical infrastructure struggle to secure funding.
These companies often require large upfront investments in hardware, creating them too costly for traditional venture capital and unsuitable for standard financing models.
Launched €70 million fund
To address this gap, GVC Gaesco Alternative Investments, the investment arm of Barcelona-based financial group GVC Gaesco, has launched a €70 million fund focapplyd on InfraTech startups.
The new vehicle, called Resilient Infratech Ventures FCRE (RIF), will invest in companies building the physical and digital infrastructure required for the next phase of the global economy.
RIF will seek opportunities in companies developing technologies such as energy storage, industrial electrification, smart networks, automation, resource efficiency, and data infrastructure.
According to the firm, these areas are becoming increasingly interconnected as Europe builds the systems requireded for energy transition and digital transformation.
Paco Illueca , CEO of GVC Gaesco Alternative Investments, highlights that “through our client network and investor relationships, we are seeing a growing demand for alternative strategies linked to the real economy, technological innovation, and private markets. In a context where diversifying portfolios beyond traditional assets is increasingly important, we believe that hardware technologies and digital infrastructure represent one of the most attractive opportunities for sophisticated investors in the coming years.”
F4E (Financing for Equity) model
A key feature of the fund is its F4E (Financing for Equity) model, a structure intfinished to support capital-intensive technology companies with more flexible financing options to accelerate growth and deployment.
The fund will primarily invest in European technology companies, with a particular focus on markets such as Spain, Italy, France, and Portugal.
Davide Cannarozzi , Managing Partner of RIF, emphasizes that “we have spent almost twenty years building this specialization, first as founders and managers of technology companies, and then as investors. F4E – Financing for Equity was born precisely from that accumulated experience on the ground: from understanding that capital-intensive companies cannot scale with traditional equity alone and required a much smarter financial architecture to unleash their full potential.”
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