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Private Equity GPs in France

Explore private equity General Partners headquartered in France. The French PE market is one of the largest in continental Europe, with strong buyout, growth equity, and venture capital activity across sectors including technology, healthcare, and industrials.

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€869.5B
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Ardian

Ardian is a global diversified private markets firm headquartered in Paris, France, founded in 1996. It manages or advises approximately $196 billion…

€196.0BFounded 199634 fundsParis
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Bpifrance Investissement

Bpifrance Investissement is the investment management company of Bpifrance, the French public investment bank, operating as a private equity firm that…

€57.3BFounded 200113 fundsMAISONS-ALFORT
VCGrowthBuyout
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Tikehau Capital

Tikehau Capital is a global alternative asset management group founded in 2004 and headquartered in Paris. It manages approximately €47 billion in ass…

€52.8BFounded 200413 fundsParis
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Wendel

Wendel is a French listed investment firm tracing its origins to the Wendel family iron-making heritage founded in 1704. Structured as Wendel SE since…

€40.8BFounded 20022 fundsParis
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Eurazeo

€39.0B32 fundsParis
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Antin Infrastructure Partners

€33.8B7 fundsParis
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PAI Partners

PAI Partners is one of the leading European private equity firms, founded in 1872 and headquartered in Paris. It manages approximately €20 billion in…

€33.0BFounded 199812 fundsParis
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LFPI GESTION

La Financiere Patrimoniale d'Investissement (LFPI) is a major French alternative asset manager founded 2003 with around EUR 27bn AUM across four pilla…

€27.0BFounded 20033 fundsParis
GrowthBuyout
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Sagard

Sagard is a French private equity firm founded in 2002 as Sagard SAS, the Paris-based principal investments arm of Power Corporation of Canada's broad…

€25.0BFounded 20021 fundsParis
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Astorg

€24.0B10 fundsParis
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Meridiam

Meridiam is an independent Paris-based investment manager founded in 2005 by Thierry Deau, specialising in the development, financing and long-term ma…

€21.2BFounded 20058 fundsParis
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SCOR Investment Partners

SCOR Investment Partners is the Paris-based asset management arm of global reinsurer SCOR, founded in 2009 and authorised by the French AMF. It specia…

€20.0BFounded 20091 fundsParis
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Infranity

Infranity is a Paris-based sustainable infrastructure investment manager founded in 2018 by Philippe Benaroya, Alban de La Selle and Gilles Lengaigne…

€13.4BFounded 20183 fundsParis
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SWEN CAPITAL PARTNERS

SWEN Capital Partners is a French responsible investor in private markets, headquartered in Paris and majority-owned by Aéma Groupe (formerly OFI Asse…

€13.2BFounded 20156 funds
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NextStage AM

NextStage AM is an independent asset management company based in Paris, founded in 2002, specializing in multi-strategy private equity focused on inno…

€11.6BFounded 200210 fundsParis
GrowthBuyout
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EDF Invest

EDF Invest is the investment arm of the EDF Group managing an unlisted asset portfolio intended to cover the future decommissioning expenses of nuclea…

€11.2BFounded 20131 fundsParis
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Capza

€9.1B10 fundsParis
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ARCHIMED

ARCHIMED is a global private equity firm founded in 2014 and headquartered in Lyon, France, focused exclusively on healthcare industries. It manages a…

€9.0BFounded 20106 fundsLyon
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Vauban Infrastructure Partners

Vauban Infrastructure Partners is a Paris-based core infrastructure asset manager founded in 2019 as a spin-off of the infrastructure team of Mirova,…

€8.8BFounded 20195 fundsParis
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Naxicap Partners

€8.3B4 fundsParis
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Rivage Investment

Rivage Investment is an independent Paris-based asset management firm founded in 2010 by Herve Besnard, specialising in private debt financing of infr…

€8.3BFounded 20104 fundsParis
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InfraVia Capital Partners

€8.0B9 fundsParis
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Keensight Capital

€8.0B2 fundsParis
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Eiffel Investment Group

Eiffel Investment Group is a Paris-based, AMF-regulated asset manager founded in 2009 by Fabrice Dumonteil that finances companies and their assets ac…

€7.0BFounded 20094 fundsParis
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Omnes Capital

Omnes Capital is a leading European private equity firm founded in 1999, dedicated to the energy transition and innovation, managing over €6.7 billion…

€6.7BFounded 199913 fundsPARIS
VCGrowthBuyout
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Quilvest Capital Partners

Quilvest Capital Partners is a leading global investment manager specializing in the middle market segment, managing assets totaling more than $7 bill…

€6.5BFounded 20176 fundsParis
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Equistone Partners

Equistone Partners Europe is an independent European mid-market private equity firm headquartered in London with offices in Paris, Munich, Manchester,…

€6.0BFounded 20114 fundsParis
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EMZ Partners

€5.8B5 fundsParis
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Cathay Capital

€5.5B15 fundsParis
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Andera Partners

€5.3B26 fundsParis
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Extendam

Extendam is an independent, management-owned AMF-regulated private equity firm and Europe's leading investor dedicated to midscale and upscale busines…

€5.1BFounded 20132 fundsParis
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Latour Capital

€5.0B7 fundsParis
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Montefiore Investment

€5.0B6 fundsParis
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Seven2

Seven2, formerly Apax Partners, is a leading independent European private equity firm founded in 1972 and headquartered in Paris. It manages around €5…

€5.0BFounded 20087 fundsParis
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Edmond de Rothschild Private Equity (France)

Edmond de Rothschild Private Equity (France) is the AMF-regulated French portfolio management arm of the Edmond de Rothschild Group, the Geneva-headqu…

€4.3BFounded 20038 fundsParis
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Siparex

€4.3B7 fundsLyon
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Peugeot Invest

Peugeot Invest is a listed long-term investment company, majority-owned by Établissements Peugeot Frères, founded in 1929. It focuses on creating valu…

€4.2BFounded 19563 fundsNEUILLY-SUR-SEINE
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Blackfin Capital Partners

BlackFin Capital Partners is the leading pan-European Financial Services PE platform, founded 2009 in Paris. EUR 4bn raised across 6 funds (Fund I 201…

€4.0B6 fundsParis
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Crédit Mutuel Equity

Crédit Mutuel Equity is a French private equity firm that has been supporting startups, SMEs, and mid-sized companies for over 40 years, investing its…

€4.0BFounded 19791 fundsPARIS
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HLD

European entrepreneurial investment group with permanent capital, founded in 2010 by Jean-Bernard Lafonta. Evergreen vehicle of around 4 billion euros…

€4.0B1 fundsParis
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Sofinnova Partners

Sofinnova Partners is a leading European venture capital firm specializing in life sciences, with a focus on healthcare and sustainability. Founded in…

€4.0BFounded 199713 fundsParis
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LBP AM

LBP AM (La Banque Postale Asset Management) is a leading French multi-specialist asset manager and a joint venture majority-owned by La Banque Postale…

€3.9BFounded 19883 fundsParis
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Zencap AM

Zencap Asset Management is a Paris-based, AMF-regulated private-debt manager and the private-debt arm of the Ofi Invest group. Founded in 2009, it fin…

€3.8BFounded 20093 fundsParis
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CIC Private Debt

CIC Private Debt is a Paris-based private debt manager and AMF-approved AIFM, part of Credit Mutuel Alliance Federale and its La Francaise asset-manag…

€3.5BFounded 20036 fundsParis
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Chequers Capital

€3.0B4 fundsParis
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ISALT

ISALT is an independent portfolio management company founded in 2019, specializing in long-term equity investments in French companies with an industr…

€3.0BFounded 20083 fundsPLENEUF-VAL-ANDRE
GrowthBuyout
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Audacia

Audacia is an independent French private equity firm founded in 2006, specializing in growth capital for family SMEs and mid-cap companies, as well as…

€2.8BFounded 20069 fundsPARIS
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IRD Invest

IRD Invest is the investment arm of Groupe IRD, a Hauts-de-France regional sponsor founded in 1991 and based in Marcq-en-Barœul. The firm manages 11 f…

€2.6BFounded 19914 fundsLille
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Atlantic Vantage Point Capital

Paris-based multi-strategy growth-equity firm founded 2015 as 'AXA Venture Partners' (corporate venture arm of AXA group) with a transatlantic platfor…

€2.5BFounded 20155 fundsParis
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LBO France

€2.5B5 fundsParis
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Partech Partners

Global technology investor founded 1982 as Paribas Technologies and now Paris-based. Invests seed to growth via Seed, Venture, Growth, Africa and Impa…

€2.5BFounded 19824 fundsParis
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RGreen Invest

RGreen Invest is an independent, mission-driven French asset manager founded in 2013 by Nicolas Rochon and dedicated exclusively to financing the ener…

€2.5BFounded 20135 fundsParis
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Idia

IDIA Capital Investissement, founded in 1980 and based in Montrouge, France, is the private equity arm of Crédit Agricole Group specializing in minori…

€2.4BFounded 20085 fundsMontrouge
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Argos Wityu

Argos Fund is an independent European private equity group founded in 1989, headquartered in Paris, specializing in mid-market investments across Euro…

€2.3B5 fundsParis
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BNP Paribas Developpement

BNP Paribas Developpement is the captive development-capital arm of the French banking group BNP Paribas, investing the bank's own balance sheet direc…

€2.1BFounded 19881 fundsParis
GrowthVC
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Aglaé Management

Aglaé Management SAS, operating as Aglaé Ventures, is a French venture capital firm founded in 2017 and backed by Groupe Arnault, the controlling shar…

€2.0BFounded 20181 fundsPARIS
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Hy24

Hy24 is a Paris-based investment manager and the world's first and largest dedicated clean hydrogen infrastructure asset manager. Founded in 2021 as a…

€2.0BFounded 20211 fundsParis
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MML Capital

MML Capital Partners is an international mid-market private equity firm founded in 1988, investing alongside management teams to provide growth capita…

€2.0BFounded 20199 fundsSAINT-PIERRE
GrowthBuyout
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Raise

RAISE is a Paris-based European investment and innovation group founded in 2013 by Clara Gaymard and Gonzague de Blignieres (SIREN 790891592) around a…

€2.0BFounded 20134 fundsParis
GrowthVC
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Turenne Groupe

Founded in 1999, Turenne Groupe is a French private equity firm managing over €2 billion in assets and supporting more than 300 companies across Franc…

€2.0BFounded 20144 fundsPARIS
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Weinberg Capital Partners

Independent French mid-cap private-equity firm founded in 2005 by Serge Weinberg and Philippe Klocanas; manages around EUR 1.9bn across mid-cap LBO (W…

€1.9BFounded 20059 fundsParis
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L Catterton Europe

L Catterton Europe is the Paris-based European consumer buyout platform of L Catterton, the LVMH-backed global consumer-focused private equity firm. F…

€1.9BFounded 20012 fundsParis
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Creadev International

Evergreen family investment vehicle of the Mulliez family, founders of Auchan, Decathlon and Leroy Merlin, created in 2002. Around EUR 1.8bn has been…

€1.8BFounded 20021 fundsCroix
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Entrepreneur Invest

Entrepreneur Invest is a French independent asset management company founded in 2000, specializing in financing French growth SMEs and real estate act…

€1.8BFounded 20006 fundsPARIS
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REDTREE CAPITAL FRANCE

RedTree Capital is an independent private real estate fund manager based in Paris, France, specializing in value-add opportunistic investments in West…

€1.7BFounded 20142 fundsParis
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UI Investissement

UI Investissement is an independent French private-equity manager born in 1967 within Credit Agricole and spun out as an independent house in 2004. Fr…

€1.7BFounded 19674 fundsParis
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Jeito Capital

Paris-based life-sciences venture capital firm founded in 2018 by Rafaele Tordjman, MD PhD, ex-Sofinnova Managing Partner, dedicated to financing brea…

€1.6BFounded 20182 fundsParis
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Merieux Equity Partners

Mérieux Equity Partners is a leading European healthcare-specialized investment firm founded in 2009, managing over €1.6 billion in assets through two…

€1.6BFounded 20187 fundsLYON
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Quadrille Capital

Quadrille Capital is an independent global tech and healthcare investment firm founded in 2001 as the venture-capital arm of the Quilvest family offic…

€1.6BFounded 20073 fundsParis
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21 Invest

€1.5B7 fundsParis
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Alma Mundi Ventures

Alma Mundi Ventures, SGEIC, S.A. is a venture capital firm providing early-stage financing to startups, primarily focusing on B2B and B2B2C technology…

€1.5B4 fundsParis
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Cerea Partners

Cerea Partners is a French private equity and private debt firm founded in 2004, specializing in investments in small and medium-sized companies withi…

€1.5BFounded 20046 fundsPARIS
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Demeter

Demeter is one of Europe's leading private-equity investors dedicated to the energy and ecological transition, founded in Paris in 2005 as a pioneer o…

€1.5BFounded 20058 fundsParis
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Qualium Investissement

€1.5B5 fundsParis
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Amethis

Amethis is a French private equity firm founded in 2012, managing over €1 billion in assets. It provides growth capital to promising mid-sized compani…

€1.4BFounded 20136 fundsDIJON
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Adagia Partners

Adagia Partners is a leading pan-European mid-market private equity firm with offices in Paris and Frankfurt, managing a €1.3 billion platform. The fi…

€1.3BFounded 20201 fundsPARIS
BuyoutGrowth
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Arkea Capital

Arkéa Capital, founded in 1982 and a subsidiary of Crédit Mutuel Arkéa, is a key player in private equity in France with over €1.3 billion in assets u…

€1.3BFounded 19989 fundsLE RELECQ-KERHUON
VCGrowthBuyout
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Abénex

€1.2B9 fundsParis
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Jolt Capital

Jolt Capital is an independent Paris growth-equity firm founded 12 October 2011 by Jean Schmitt that scales European deep-tech B2B champions across se…

€1.2BFounded 20115 fundsParis
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RIVE Private Investment

Paris, Geneva and Luxembourg-based infrastructure-impact and transportation-assets private-equity manager founded in 2013 by Yann Thomas and Etienne M…

€1.2BFounded 20133 fundsParis
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Truffle Capital

Truffle Capital is an independent European venture capital firm founded in 2001, focused on building and financing innovative companies in the Life Sc…

€1.2BFounded 20003 fundsPARIS
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CFJ (Compagnie Financière Jousset)

CFJ (Compagnie Financière Jousset) is the family-office investment holding of French entrepreneur Frédéric Jousset, co-founder of Webhelp (sold to Con…

€1.1BFounded 20231 fundsLuxembourg
BuyoutGrowth
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Iris Capital

European VC firm originally founded 1986 within Caisse des Depots, spun off 2003 as independent and formalised the 2012 joint venture with Orange and…

€1.1BFounded 19865 fundsParis
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Ventech

Ventech is a Paris-based venture capital firm founded in December 1998 by Alain Caffi and Eric Huet, headquartered at 47 avenue de l'Opera 75002 Paris…

€1.1BFounded 19986 fundsParis
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Elyan Partners

Elyan Partners SAS, founded in 2021 and based in Paris, is an independent investment team and exclusive financial advisor to the ERES and Privilege pr…

€1.0BFounded 20214 fundsParis
BuyoutGrowth
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Amundi Transition Energetique

Amundi Transition Energetique (AET, English: Amundi Energy Transition) is a Paris-based infrastructure asset manager created in 2016 as a joint ventur…

€1.0BFounded 20161 fundsParis
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Daphni

Daphni is a Paris-based, B Corp-certified venture capital firm founded in 2015 that backs seed to Series A startups across consumer, fintech, health,…

€1.0BFounded 20155 fundsParis
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iXO Private Equity

iXO Private Equity is one of the largest independent French private equity firms specializing in small and mid-cap investments. Founded in 2003 and ba…

€1.0BFounded 200217 fundsToulouse
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Unigrains

Unigrains is a French private equity investment firm founded in 1963, specializing in providing financial solutions and sector expertise to agri-food…

€964MFounded 19642 fundsPARIS
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Capital Croissance

Capital Croissance is a French independent private equity firm founded in 2012, managing around €950 million. It supports startups, SMEs, and mid-cap…

€950MFounded 20127 fundsPARIS
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Meanings Capital Partners

Meanings Capital Partners is a leading French multi-activity investment platform specializing in the lower mid-cap segment in Private Equity, Infrastr…

€906MFounded 20123 fundsPARIS
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Hivest Capital Partners

Hivest Capital Partners is an independent French private equity firm founded in November 2016 in Paris by Axel Bonnassies and Cedric Lepee, approved b…

€900MFounded 20163 fundsParis
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JCDecaux Holding

Family-investment vehicle of the Decaux family founded around 2000 ahead of the JCDecaux SE IPO; majority shareholder of JCDecaux SE (the world's lead…

€900MFounded 20001 fundsNeuilly-sur-Seine
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Atempo Growth

€850M2 fundsParis
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Elaia Partners

Elaia Partners, founded in 2002 and based in Paris, is a European venture capital firm specializing in digital and deep tech startups. It manages over…

€850MFounded 200211 fundsParis
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Parquest Capital

Parquest Capital is an independent Paris-based private equity firm focused on the French mid-market, founded in 2002 as the French franchise of ING Pa…

€850MFounded 20143 fundsParis
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Epopee Gestion

Regional multi-strategy manager founded in 2020 by Charles Cabillic and Ronan Le Moal to back SMEs, startups, real estate and low-carbon infrastructur…

€820MFounded 20203 fundsGuipavas
GrowthVCReal Estate
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Indigo Capital

Indigo Capital SAS is an independent Paris-based private debt and mezzanine investment firm founded in May 2011 by Monique Deloire and former colleagu…

€800MFounded 20113 fundsPARIS
BuyoutGrowth
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Initiative & Finance

Initiative & Finance is a Paris-based private equity firm founded in 1984, specializing in the financing and transmission of small and medium enterpri…

€800MFounded 20255 fundsPARIS
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Korelya Capital

Korelya Capital is a Paris-based growth-stage venture capital firm founded September 2016 by Fleur Pellerin (former French Minister for Digital Econom…

€800MFounded 20162 fundsParis
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