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COFIDES

COFIDES is Spain’s public-private development-finance institution and statutory manager of several state investment instruments. Its exact commercial-company name is Compañía Española de Financiación del Desarrollo, COFIDES,S.A.,S.M.E., NIF A78990603, headquartered in Madrid. The published ownership split is53%Spanishstate and47%Santander,BBVA,Sabadell andCAF; these shareholders’ staff and treasury are not merged into its own institution. It finances internationalisation and sustainable-development projects and manages FIEX, FONPYME, FONREC, FOCO and FIS. FOCO is the separate Fondo de Coinversión,F.C.P.J., a public fund without legal personality with accounting segregated from COFIDES corporate resources; COFIDES is its statutory manager, not an interchangeable corporate-balance-sheet subscriber. Anaconda Biomed’s September23,2026 financing explicitly names FOCO managed by COFIDES. The institution’s current leadership CVs and July2026organisation chart publish executives across investment, equity, debt, funds, impact, development finance, technology/data, talent, legal and governance functions. JesúsFernández’s published remit includes digital transformation and artificial-intelligence adoption. The board list remains expressly dated October28,2025 and is represented as the latest published roster, rather than assuming every shareholder representative is a current operating investor. Public€2BFOCO,€400MFIS and€1BFONREC resources are programme budget allocations and deployment capacities, not external LP fundraising closes or individual investee checks. FEDES is managed by AECID with COFIDES support; the global Green Climate Fund and EUblending programmes are not copied as COFIDES-owned funds. Investee rounds are kept separate from fund budgets, approvals, facilities and corporate resources.