We create shared value bringing entrepreneurs and private investors together, generating economic value that also produces wider societal benefits while redefining business models through technology and innovation.
Successful exits
For twenty years we have been successfully investing in the “next big thing”: internet, mobile, genomics, breakthrough oncology, digital health, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, etc.

Advanced Accelerator Applications develops and manufactures diagnostic and therapeutic products. The company offers radio-pharmaceuticals, molecules and drugs for clinical oncology, cardiology, inflammatory diseases and neurology. Advanced Accelerator Applications serves patients and medical professionals worldwide. AAA was listed at the Nasdaq Stock Exchange in November 2015 and trades with ticker AAAP US. In October 2017 Novartis announced its intention to acquire AAA for $3.9b in cash.

Next Games is a mobile game developer and publisher based in Helsinki, Finland, and is specializing in games based on entertainment franchises, such as movies, TV series or books. The company was successfully listed at Nasdaq First North Helsinki in March 2017 and currently trades with the ticker NXTGMS FH. Next Games is the first Finnish gaming company to be listed in a stock exchange.

IObox was a Finnish mobile and web portal operator founded in 1999 by Jari Ovaskainen and Henry Nilert having millions of users. In addition the company operated branded portal sites for customers such as the Swedish communications company Telia. In July 2000 (19 moths after founding), the company was sold to Terra Mobile for EUR 230M, representing the largest venture capital exit in Finland at the time.

Supercell is a mobile game development company founded in June 2010 in Helsinki, Finland. The company’s debut game was the browser game Gunshine.net, and after its release in 2011, Supercell started developing games for mobile devices. Since then, the company has fully released four mobile games: Hay Day, Clash of Clans, Boom Beach, and Clash Royale. The company was sold to Softbank in 2015. It has then been acquired by Tencent for 10.3$b.
Our People

In 2014 Jari invested in Advanced Accelerator Applications (AAA), a nuclear-medicine spinoff from CERN, acquired in 2017 by Novartis for $3.9b in cash. In the same year he had his most recent exit with the highly successful IPO of the Finnish gaming company Next Games at Nadsaq FNH.
Jari was named Finland’s Business Angel of the Year in 2013 and Europe’s Business Angel of the Year in 2014.
Jari is Preon Capital's principal.

Alberto holds a MSc Degree in Physics with honors from the University of Milano, a PhD in Nuclear and Sub-nuclear Physics from the University of Milano and a MBA in Management and Corporate Finance with honors from HEC Lausanne.



Francisco started his career as a manager in Operations, Logistics and Marketing in multinational companies such as Philips and Adidas, after which he worked as an independent consultant and interim manager for several projects related to small and medium enterprises as well as government agencies.
Since 2005 Francisco has specialized in Corporate Finance with focus on valuation and has developed proprietary models for tangible and intangible assets based on a variety of methods ranging from Real Options to DCF. As a Partner in ONEtoONE Corporate Finance he has executed several Mid Cap M&A deals. From 2008 to 2011 he worked as buy-side analyst for Strategic Investment Advisors (Suisse) where he developed benchmark models for Equity valuation.

Member of the Italian Journalist Association since 2012, Valeria holds an MBA from the University of Geneva and an MA with Honors in Business Communications from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan.
