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Cresco part­ners with the Sil­i­con Val­ley net­work the GUILD

Build­ing a direct bridge between Bel­gium and Sil­i­con Val­ley, the GUILD offers female entre­pre­neurs the oppor­tu­ni­ty to c…

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Cresco proud­ly announces its strate­gic part­ner­ship with Co.Station

We are thrilled to announce that Cresco and Co.Station have con­clud­ed a strate­gic part­ner­ship. Cresco will active­ly con…

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” Inno­vate, Col­lab­o­rate, Grow ” a book by David Dessers, com­ing soon!

“This book is a gem for any B2B start-up entre­pre­neur. David suc­ceeds in pro­vid­ing both the big­ger pic­ture as well as t…

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Cresco cel­e­brates its Five Year Anniversary

Cresco is proud to announce its fifth anniver­sary, hav­ing served a grow­ing group of fan­tas­tic clients through­out the years. It has been a priv­i­lege to work with so many tal­ent­ed indi­vid­u­als and great organizations.We cel­e­brat­ed our anniver­sary in the pres­ence of numer­ous entre­pre­neurs, senior exec­u­tives and investors in the Mar­ble Hall at the Antw…

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Ada­gio and share­hold­ers in strate­gic sale to Intracto

Cresco act­ed as lead coun­sel to Ada­gio and its share­hold­ers in the prepa­ra­tion, nego­ti­a­tion and clos­ing of the strategi…

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Sup­plystack in Series A Invest­ment Round

Cresco assist­ed Sup­plystack in the struc­tur­ing, nego­ti­a­tion and clos­ing of its EUR 5 mil­lion Series A invest­ment round.…

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Hum­ming­bird funds in var­i­ous ven­ture cap­i­tal investments

Dur­ing 2018 and 2019 Cresco act­ed as lead coun­sel to the Gen­er­al Part­ner of the Hum­ming­bird Funds in the struc­tur­ing, n…

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Vol­ta Ven­tures in var­i­ous ven­ture cap­i­tal investments

Dur­ing 2018 and 2019 Cresco act­ed as lead coun­sel to the Gen­er­al Part­ner of Vol­ta Ven­tures, in the struc­tur­ing, negotia…

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Newtec and share­hold­ers in strate­gic sale to Sin­ga­pore Tech­nolo­gies Engineering

Cresco act­ed as lead coun­sel to Newtec and its share­hold­ers in the prepa­ra­tion, nego­ti­a­tion and clos­ing of the strategi…

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Intuo and share­hold­ers in strate­gic sale to Unit4

Cresco act­ed as lead coun­sel to Intuo and its share­hold­ers in the prepa­ra­tion, nego­ti­a­tion and clos­ing of the strategic…

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TEDxFlan­ders Main Event ​“NOW” — 3 April 2019 — deSin­gel Antwerp

We are hap­py to announce our con­tin­ued part­ner­ship with TEDxFlan­ders. On 3 April 2019, TEDxFlan­ders will be celebratin…

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Mabo Lift­ing and share­hold­ers in sale to Sofindev

Cresco act­ed as lead coun­sel to Mabo Lift­ing and its share­hold­ers in the prepa­ra­tion, nego­ti­a­tion and clos­ing of the st…

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Vava­to in acqui­si­tion of Jorisco Group

Cresco act­ed as lead coun­sel to Vava­to in the prepa­ra­tion, nego­ti­a­tion and clos­ing of the strate­gic acqui­si­tion of Jorisco Group. Vava­to is a fast-grow­ing online auc­tion house. With the acqui­si­tion of Jorisco it adds to its auc­tion cat­e­gories and dou­bles in size. David Dessers led the Cresco team that advised Vava­to and its share­hold­ers in this s…

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For­ma­tion of ener­gy ecosys­tem IO.Energy

Cresco act­ed as lead coun­sel to Elia, Flu­vius and oth­er sys­tem oper­a­tors in the struc­tur­ing and for­ma­tion of the IO.Energy Ecosys­tem. The IO.Energy Ecosys­tem is an open inno­va­tion ecosys­tem to share knowl­edge and boost inno­va­tion in the ener­gy world. But also, to cre­ate the envi­ron­ment to build, test and learn from new ener­gy appli­ca­tions for cons…

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Taste Invest in strate­gic Novosa­nis sale to Ora­Sure Technologies

Cresco act­ed as lead coun­sel to Taste Invest,the cor­ner­stone investor of Novosa­nis, in the prepa­ra­tion, nego­ti­a­tion and clos­ing of the strate­gic acqui­si­tion of Novasa­nis by Ora­Sure Tech­nolo­gies, a NAS­DAQ pub­licly list­ed com­pa­ny active in de med­ical device indus­try. Novosa­nis is an ear­ly com­mer­cial-stage pro­duc­er and dis­trib­u­tor of urine sam­ple co…

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For­ma­tion of Biotech Incu­ba­tor fund Novalis Ventures

Cresco act­ed as lead coun­sel to the gen­er­al part­ner in the struc­tur­ing, for­ma­tion and fundrais­ing of Novalis. Novalis, struc­tured as a tax effi­cient pri­vate pri­vak, is an ear­ly stage incu­ba­tor fund with an invest­ment focus on pre-seed and seed stage oppor­tu­ni­ties in pri­vate­ly held com­pa­nies which are active in the biotech and life sci­ences areas,…

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Account­able in Seed Invest­ment Round

Cresco assist­ed Account­able in the struc­tur­ing, nego­ti­a­tion and clos­ing of its EUR 2 mil­lion Seed invest­ment round. The fund­ing round was led by Con­nect Ven­tures, along with Bel­gian and inter­na­tion­al busi­ness angels. Account­able offers an appli­ca­tion that makes the life of self-employed work­ers eas­i­er, by allow­ing them a real-time overview of the…

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Mil­li­beter and share­hold­ers in strate­gic sale to AgriProtein

Cresco act­ed as lead coun­sel to Mil­li­beter and its share­hold­ers in the prepa­ra­tion, nego­ti­a­tion and clos­ing of the strate­gic acqui­si­tion of Mil­li­beter by AgriPro­tein. Fly-farmer and insect tech­nol­o­gy pio­neer AgriPro­tein will fund the con­struc­tion of the first full-scale Mil­li­beter fac­to­ry in Bel­gium. Oper­at­ing from the Open Man­u­fac­tur­ing cam­pus in…

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Investor Con­sor­tium in Camel-IDS Series A Invest­ment Round

Cresco assist­ed an investor con­sor­tium in the struc­tur­ing, nego­ti­a­tion and clos­ing of its EUR 37m Series A invest­ment round in Camel-IDS. The con­sor­tium was led by V-Bio Ventures(Belgium) and Gimv(Belgium), and joined by the co-lead investors Health­Cap (Swe­den), Novo Seeds (Den­mark), Pon­tif­ax (Israel) and Bio­Med­Part­ners (Switzer­land). Camel-IDS i…

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Invest­suite in Seed Invest­ment Round

Cresco assist­ed Invest­suite in the struc­tur­ing, nego­ti­a­tion and clos­ing of its EUR 2 mil­lion Seed invest­ment round. The fund­ing round was led by PMV, along with Bel­gian and inter­na­tion­al busi­ness angels. Invest­suite is a Euro­pean wealthtech com­pa­ny pro­vid­ing B2B invest­ment prod­ucts as-a-ser­vice. It helps finan­cial insti­tu­tions retain their client…

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Bedal in Series A Invest­ment Round

Cresco assist­ed Bedal in the struc­tur­ing, nego­ti­a­tion and clos­ing of its EUR 2.6 mil­lion Series A invest­ment round. Bedal is an award-win­ning start-up that devel­ops inno­v­a­tive med­ical devices for catheter fix­a­tion. The fund­ing round was led by F3 Finance, an invest­ment office for a num­ber of Bel­gian fam­i­lies, and LRM, the Lim­burg Invest­ment Compa…

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The Alliance in for­ma­tion and var­i­ous ven­ture cap­i­tal investments

Cresco assist­ed the gen­er­al part­ner in the struc­tur­ing, for­ma­tion and fundrais­ing of invest­ment fund ​‘The Alliance’. The Alliance is an ini­tia­tive of Jür­gen Ingels and Ste­fan Dier­ckx that aims to pro­vide tech com­pa­nies with growth fund­ing and access to an inter­na­tion­al fin­tech ecosys­tem to enable and accel­er­ate fur­ther expan­sion. In addi­tion Cresc…

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Cresco hosts a TEDxFlan­ders Salon in coop­er­a­tion with TEDxFlanders

On 17 Octo­ber 2018 Cresco hosts a TEDxFlan­ders Salon on Ener­gy x Effi­cien­cy x Empa­thy, in coop­er­a­tion with TEDxFlanders…

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For­ma­tion of cor­po­rate ven­tur­ing fund imec.xpand

Cresco act­ed as lead coun­sel to imec, the world lead­ing R&D hub for nano elec­tron­ics and dig­i­tal tech­nol­o­gy, and the Gen­er­al Part­ner of imec.xpand, in the struc­tur­ing, for­ma­tion and fundrais­ing of imec.xpand. imec.xpand is an inde­pen­dent­ly man­aged, game-chang­ing fund to enable ear­ly-stage nano elec­tron­ics based inno­va­tion pow­ered by imec. The …

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MCS and share­hold­ers in strate­gic sale to Nemetschek

Cresco act­ed as lead coun­sel to MCS Solu­tions and its share­hold­ers in the prepa­ra­tion, nego­ti­a­tion and clos­ing of the strate­gic acqui­si­tion of MCS by Nemetschek. MCS Solu­tions offers an inte­grat­ed and mod­u­lar Inte­grat­ed Work­place Man­age­ment Sys­tem (IWMS) that cov­ers core func­tion­al areas in real estate, facil­i­ty and work­place man­age­ment for large…

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Team­leader in Keen Ven­tures led Series C Invest­ment Round

Cresco assist­ed Team­lead­erin the struc­tur­ing, nego­ti­a­tion and clos­ing of its EUR 18.5 mil­lion Series C invest­ment round. The invest­ment round was led by Keen Ventures(USA), joined by the co-lead investors Forti­no Cap­i­tal and Sage Cap­i­tal. Team­leader is known for its SaaS plat­form for CRM, project man­age­ment and invoic­ing. The com­pa­ny will use the…

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Trend­min­er and share­hold­ers in strate­gic sale to Soft­ware AG

Cresco act­ed as lead coun­sel to Trend­minerand its share­hold­ers in the prepa­ra­tion, nego­ti­a­tion and clos­ing of the strate­gic acqui­si­tion of Trend­min­er by Soft­ware AG. Soft­ware AG’s acqui­si­tion of Trend­Min­er is con­sol­i­dat­ing its lead­ing posi­tion in the rapid­ly grow­ing IoT mar­ket. Trend­Min­er employs advanced ana­lyt­ics meth­ods such as diag­nos­tic, visu…

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Hum­ming­bird in strate­gic Gram Games sale to Zynga

Cresco act­ed as lead coun­sel to Hum­ming­bird Ventures,the only VC share­hold­er and largest indi­vid­ual share­hold­er of Gram Games, in the prepa­ra­tion, nego­ti­a­tion and clos­ing of the strate­gic acqui­si­tion of Gram Games by US-based gam­ing giantZygna. This acqui­si­tion brings to Zyn­ga a tal­ent­ed team with a proven track record of devel­op­ing high­ly engagin…

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For­ma­tion of cor­po­rate ven­tur­ing fund 9.5 Mag­ni­tude Ventures

Cresco act­ed as lead coun­sel to the gen­er­al part­ner in the struc­tur­ing, for­ma­tion and fundrais­ing of 9.5 Mag­ni­tude Ven­tures. 9.5 Mag­ni­tude Ven­tures is a unique pre-seed cor­po­rate ven­tur­ing fund focused on set­ting-up joint-ven­tures with top tier cor­po­rates. In close col­lab­o­ra­tion with the cor­po­rate 9.5 Mag­ni­tude Ven­tures builds and launch­es a full…

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Cresco part­ners with Euronext Techshare

TechShare , the edu­ca­tion­al Euronext pro­gramme help­ing Tech com­pa­nies grow their busi­ness Launched in Sep­tem­ber 2015, T…

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Cresco part­ners with and& Sum­mit & Festival

and& is a one of a kind sum­mit & fes­ti­val at the inter­sec­tion of health, tech & cre­ativ­i­ty curat­ed for the …

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Ansem and share­hold­ers in strate­gic sale to Cyient

Cresco act­ed as lead coun­sel to Anse­mand its share­hold­ers in the prepa­ra­tion, nego­ti­a­tion and clos­ing of the strate­gic acqui­si­tion of Ansem by Cyient. Cyient is a glob­al provider of engi­neer­ing, man­u­fac­tur­ing, geospa­tial, net­works, and oper­a­tions man­age­ment ser­vices. AnSem is a lead­ing fab­less, cus­tom ana­logue and mixed-sig­nal application-specific…

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Cresco part­ners with Watt factory

Cresco proud­ly announces its strate­gic part­ner­ship with Watt Fac­to­ry, a new com­mu­ni­ty of entre­pre­neurs and cre­atives fo…

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