Pacific Capital Group
28, boulevard d'Avranches, Luxembourg
Overview
Pacific Capital was established in April 2007 as an investment firm with assets superior to EUR 800 million, focusing on capital preservation and delivering consistent, superior absolute returns with low volatility and correlation to equity and fixed income markets. Pacific Capital's principal investor is Mr. Silvio Scaglia, who was formerly the founder, CEO and largest shareholder of Fastweb, the second-largest fixed line telecommunications company in Italy and previously CEO of Omnitel (now Vodafone Italy) the second wireless telecom operator in Italy.
- Total investments
- 2
- Lead investments
- 1
- Investments · 12mo
- 0
- Active investors
- 0
Sector focus
- Finance
- Financial Services
- Venture Capital
Investment portfolio
- Yewno
Participated · Series A · Nov 2016
Yewno builds a knowledge-discovery inference engine that mimics the human brain, combining machine learning, cognitive science, neural networks, and computational linguistics into a highly visual platform. Its flagship offering, Yewno for Education, is in use at leading research universities including Harvard, MIT, NYU, Stanford, Stonehill College, UC Berkeley, the University of Michigan, and the Bavarian State Library. The company reports a knowledge base that now exceeds more than 50 million vetted, quality items drawn from publishers, aggregators, and universities. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Redwood City, Calif., with offices in London, Yewno says its system visually clusters and correlates concepts to resemble human inferential processes. The company plans to use the new funds to further develop its knowledge base and inference engine and to roll out into additional vertical markets and geographies beginning in early 2017, with particular interest in publishing where the new investor brings expertise and Asian market access. Pacific Capital Group remains a participating investor as Yewno prepares broader commercial expansion. Yewno develops a knowledge discovery platform that leverages computational semantics, graph theory and machine learning to connect concepts and information directly to content presentation. The platform searches and chains concepts to resemble a human inferential cognitive process. Founded in 2011 and led by CEO Ruggero Gramatica (former CIO & Founding Partner of Fastweb), the company exited a two-year stealth period and has signed more than two dozen partners including research universities, publishing houses and content aggregators. The company is based in Redwood City, California, and London, UK. Yewno closed a $10M Series A and plans to use the funds to accelerate go-to-market activities, expand support for vertical areas where its technology is applied, and grow its technical, business and support teams.
- Playsino
Led · Equity · Apr 2012
Playsino, formerly Titan Gaming, is repositioning its platform to focus on social casino games while leveraging its traction in tournaments and virtual rewards. The company has named Brock Pierce as CEO; Pierce is the managing director of the Clearstone Global Gaming Fund and a serial entrepreneur who founded Internet Gaming Entertainment (IGE) and Zam. Playsino aims to build "the world’s largest social gaming casino platform" and is pursuing both internal game development and publishing third-party content. The startup also plans to acquire independent players and build a platform that allows developers and established players to sell their games. Playsino intends to use new capital to accelerate development and platform build-out, taking cues from Zynga.com’s model. The company operates amid a large and growing social gaming audience (about 510 million people, a 71% increase since 2010) but faces increased competition and regulatory uncertainty in online gambling.
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