Novator Partners

Assets

The communications sector acquisitions of the investment firm includes

• In 2003, Novator acquired a 70% stake in Czech telecoms company České Radiokomunikace for £120m. It owns 39.23% of the shares in T-Mobile Czech Republic a.s.. Novator sold the stake three years later for £942m.
• Novator acquired the largest single stake in Finnish telecom company Elisa in 2005 for around £100m. The stake was sold in 2007 for £311m.
• Novator acquired a controlling stake in Finnish telecom Saunalahti.
• Novator acquired a 65% stake in Bulgarian Telecommunications Company for an undisclosed sum. In 2007 the stake was sold for £855m.
• Novator acquired a large stake in Polish telecom P4.
• Novator acquired a large stake in Polish telecom Netia in 2006. Netia has the second-largest fixed-line network in Poland. Netia and Novator announced that they are going to build a 4th mobile network in Poland.
• Novator acquired a large stake in Forthnet, a Greek Internet service provider.
• Exista acquired 100% of Nova.
• In 2015, Novator acquired 100% of in Chile.

  Financial sector acquisitions included

• An 18.27% stake in the Economic & Investment Bank in Bulgaria, which was previously 100% owned Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov's domestic partner Tsvetelina Borislavova.

  Acquisitions in the gaming world

• in 2016 Novator invested in Zwift, a multiplayer indoor cycling game in Series A funding that reached $27 million.
• in 2019 Novator, led a $22.33 million funding round to further develop a multiplayer online space colony simulation game called Seed. Novator was joined by Lego Ventures, the investment entity of the Lego brand. Birgir Ragnarson, partner at Novator,was appointed Klang's chairman of the board.
• in August 2019 Lockwood Publishing announced a funding round led by existing investors and new shareholders Novator. The round was led by CCP Games CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson. The total amount was not specified.

  Other acquisitions included

• In 2007, Novator bought out other shareholders in Actavis, an Icelandic pharmaceutical company.
• * Actavis acquired the New Jersey-based generic drug company Amide Pharmaceutical for US$500 million in 2005.
• * Actavis acquired Indian research company Lotus Laboratories