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.
Ardian
Ardian is a global diversified private markets firm headquartered in Paris, France, founded in 1996. It manages or advises approximately $196 billion…
Bpifrance Investissement
Bpifrance Investissement is the investment management company of Bpifrance, the French public investment bank, operating as a private equity firm that…
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…
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…
Eurazeo
Antin Infrastructure Partners
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…
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…
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…
Astorg
Meridiam
Meridiam is an independent Paris-based investment manager founded in 2005 by Thierry Deau, specialising in the development, financing and long-term ma…
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…
Infranity
Infranity is a Paris-based sustainable infrastructure investment manager founded in 2018 by Philippe Benaroya, Alban de La Selle and Gilles Lengaigne…
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…
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…
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…
Capza
ARCHIMED
ARCHIMED is a global private equity firm founded in 2014 and headquartered in Lyon, France, focused exclusively on healthcare industries. It manages a…
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,…
Naxicap Partners
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…
InfraVia Capital Partners
Keensight Capital
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…
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…
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…
Equistone Partners
Equistone Partners Europe is an independent European mid-market private equity firm headquartered in London with offices in Paris, Munich, Manchester,…
EMZ Partners
Cathay Capital
Andera Partners
Extendam
Extendam is an independent, management-owned AMF-regulated private equity firm and Europe's leading investor dedicated to midscale and upscale busines…
Latour Capital
Montefiore Investment
Seven2
Seven2, formerly Apax Partners, is a leading independent European private equity firm founded in 1972 and headquartered in Paris. It manages around €5…
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…
Siparex
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…
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…
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…
HLD
European entrepreneurial investment group with permanent capital, founded in 2010 by Jean-Bernard Lafonta. Evergreen vehicle of around 4 billion euros…
Sofinnova Partners
Sofinnova Partners is a leading European venture capital firm specializing in life sciences, with a focus on healthcare and sustainability. Founded in…
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…
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…
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…
Chequers Capital
ISALT
ISALT is an independent portfolio management company founded in 2019, specializing in long-term equity investments in French companies with an industr…
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…
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…
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…
LBO France
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…
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…
Idia
IDIA Capital Investissement, founded in 1980 and based in Montrouge, France, is the private equity arm of Crédit Agricole Group specializing in minori…
Argos Wityu
Argos Fund is an independent European private equity group founded in 1989, headquartered in Paris, specializing in mid-market investments across Euro…
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…
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…
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…
MML Capital
MML Capital Partners is an international mid-market private equity firm founded in 1988, investing alongside management teams to provide growth capita…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Entrepreneur Invest
Entrepreneur Invest is a French independent asset management company founded in 2000, specializing in financing French growth SMEs and real estate act…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
21 Invest
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…
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…
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…
Qualium Investissement
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…
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…
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…
Abénex
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
Unigrains
Unigrains is a French private equity investment firm founded in 1963, specializing in providing financial solutions and sector expertise to agri-food…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Atempo Growth
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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