The Mirai corporation, created by the Basque businessman José Antonio Jainaga, plans to invest 100 million euros in the purchase of Catalan companies in areas such as metal transformation, electronics and other industrial activities to form a new conglomerate capable of obtaining synergies and seize opportunities.
“We want to enter to command and manage the companies, preferably with one hundred percent of the capital,” Jainaga affirms to La Vanguardia. Mirai, which means future in Japanese, “does not act like a venture capital fund” but has “long-term vision” and no “exit date.”
The new corporation is owned by Jainaga and other executives from Sidenor, but is independent of the Basque company. It has been taking shape for four years and already includes ten companies, with the aim of reaching fifteen by the end of this year. It invoices more than 100 million euros and employs 500 people, but it aspires to add 30 companies in 2026 and earn 500 million euros with a workforce of 2,000 people.
He has 250 million euros to invest and most of it will go to Catalonia. Because? “Within the metal sector there are many companies that work there. There are also electronics companies and sectors such as the pharmaceutical that we are looking at. We are also interested in activities related to aluminum, copper and the circular economy”, explains the businessman. “Catalonia is a great region,” he adds, without citing the specific names of companies on the radar.
Yes, there is a defined profile of what is sought. “Companies subject to family succession processes are interested in which the founders want to retire and to which we can give continuity,” he points out. The idea is that they have an ebitda of between two and ten million euros per year.
Of the turnover forecast for 2026, half will come from the Basque Country, compared to 25% from Catalonia and 25% from other Spanish regions. “What we want is to provide management capacity and financial support to make them grow,” he says. “We do not want to venture with companies that have not yet billed or in sectors that we do not dominate.”
Sidenor, the company from which the investors come, has clients and the largest calibration factory in Spain in Catalonia. They acquired it in 2008 and, according to what he says, it has been gaining in size.
