Day: 3 March 2015

Axon’s portfolio client, Akamon Entertainment in Top 100 Hottest Startups

Social gaming startup, Akamon Entertainment,  has been listed in Europe’s Top 100 Hottest Startups by leading technology magazine, WIRED.co.uk, since Axon Partners Group’s investment in May 2013,  Axon is the leading VC of the growing Barcelona-based company. The capital injection was one of the largest in the first round of capital finance in the online […]

Axon wins Best Business Launch award for Wuaki TV

Axon has won the Spanish Venture Capital Association (ASCRI)’s Best Investment award at their annual prize giving event. The award recognises the work involved in Axon’s investment of Wuaki TV.   B2C video on demand service, Wuaki TV, originally became an Axon ICT I fund investment in the summer of 2011, with the intention of […]

Mexico, Peru and Colombia Rise as Key Targets for Private Equity

The private equity market in Latin America has traditionally lagged behind many other areas of the world – but that trend is clearly beginning to change. As Reuters recently reported, Bain Capital is the latest big equity firm to consider creating a Latin America-focused investment fund, following the example of peers like Carlyle Group and […]

Akamon Closes First Round of Investment

Axon has completed its first round of investment in Akamon, the leading online social gaming network in Southern Europe and Latin America. Akamon’s 2.8 million Euro capital injection, one of the highest first round investments in the Spanish online sector, will permit the company to increase users, enter new markets and push ahead with new […]

Amerigo Wins Fund of the Year 2013

Axon Partners Group’s Amerigo Ventures Colombia Fund has won Global Corporate Venturing’s Fund of the Year 2013. The Fund’s focus on emerging market, as well as its creative leveraging of capital, made the fund stand out to the judges against tough competition from international giants Unilever, Google and Samsung.

Axon proposes a methodology in the wake of a potential merger of two communication networks in Jamaica

The Jamaican telecoms Regulator, the Office of Utilities Regulation (the OUR), has published the draft methodology for the calculation of fixed interconnection rates, with the support of Axon Consulting. Within the document, the OUR proposes a solution that would take into account the potential merger between LIME (the incumbent) and FLOW (a cable operator). It […]

Telmex y América Móviles publicarán ofertas de referencia para MVNO, Roaming Nacional, Líneas Arrendadas e Infraestructura Pasiva

El 7 de noviembre el Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones de México aprobó una decisión en la que se establecían las condiciones de las Ofertas de Referencia que Telmex (titular de la línea fija) y Telcel (la filial de América Móviles y el mayor operador móvil del país) publicarán antes del 21 de noviembre de 2014.La […]

Axon Consulting strengthens position in LatAm with Costa Rica contract

Axon Consulting has been selected to review existing Costa Rican framework for the universalisation of telecommunication services. Adding to its increasing list of institutional projects, Axon Partners Groups’ consulting division (Axon Consulting) has been selected to support the Telecoms Regulator in Costa Rica (SUTEL) in shaping the tools for developing telecommunication services in the country. […]

Axon’s Study on on-net/off-net prices fuels debate on Mexico’s Telecoms Reform

Telefónica Mexico has commissioned Axon Consulting to carry out an independent study to explore the impact that current pricing practices have on the Mexican mobile market, paying particular interest to the discrimination between on-net and off-net calls. The potential effects and economic rationale of on-net/off-net price discrimination by dominant operators has been widely explored in […]

Axon Consulting involved in shaping Costa Rica telecoms policy

Axon Partners Group Consulting (Axon Consulting) has supported the Telecoms Regulator in Costa Rica (SUTEL) in shaping its telecoms sector policy, adding to its increasing list of institutional projects. Axon Consulting has provided advice to the Telecommunications Superintendency of Costa Rica (SUTEL) during 2013 on issues related to setting telecom tariffs, analysing the cost data […]