Aura Capital (venture capital firm)

Aura Capital Oy is an investment company that belongs to the Auratum group. The material held for it is an announcement, written in Finnish, about one of its largest exits, and it shows a firm that buys stakes in technology companies and later sells them.

Services

• Private equity and venture investment: takes ownership positions in portfolio companies, in this case the largest single holding of 55 per cent.
• Exit management: sold its holding in the database software firm Continuent to the virtualisation company VMware.
• Portfolio support: worked with the Continuent team over several years until the sale.

Who it works with

Technology companies in its portfolio. Continuent was founded in Oulu in 2002, sold open source database clustering software, and counted the Financial Times and Amex Serve among its customers.

Key facts

• Parent: Auratum group
• Notable exit: Continuent, sold to VMware
• Ownership in that deal: 55 per cent, the largest shareholder
• Source material: an announcement page on the Auratum site