Expanso Capital
Expanso Capital is the captive investment subsidiary of Caisse d'Epargne Aquitaine Poitou-Charentes (BPCE group), founded in 1999 and relaunched in 2014 to provide minority equity support to regional SMEs across Nouvelle-Aquitaine. The firm invests its own balance sheet as an SA with EUR 9.4 million in share capital, systematically co-investing alongside regional vehicles such as Aquiti Gestion, NACO and Bpifrance with tickets of EUR 50,000 to 500,000. Its investments span growth equity, small buyouts and early-stage venture, with a focus on energy transition, industrial and business services sectors in Southwest France.
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Recent exits
Coverage notes
1 fund tracked, 25 portfolio companies (23 active · 2 realized). Verified weekly from public filings and deal announcements.
Sector breakdown
25 companiesFunds & portfolio
Every fund Expanso Capital has raised, with its portfolio companies. Hand-checked from public filings.
Expanso CapitalGrowth1999 · 27yr€9M23 active · 2 realized
Unrealized
23 held| Company | Sector | Geo | Entry |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business Services |  France | 2017 | |
| Software | France | 2017 | |
| Real Estate | France | 2025 | |
| Industrials | France | 2019 | |
| Consumer | France | 2017 | |
| Industrials | France | 2023 | |
| Software | France | 2015 | |
| Software | France | 2018 | |
| Industrials | France | 2021 | |
| Software | France | 2015 | |
| Software | France | 2023 | |
| Industrials | France | 2018 | |
| Consumer | France | 2015 | |
| Healthcare | France | 2016 | |
| Consumer | France | 2020 | |
| AgTech | France | 2015 | |
| Industrials | France | 2019 | |
| Industrials | France | 2017 | |
| Business Services | France | 2020 | |
| Energy | France | 2014 | |
| Industrials | France | 2013 | |
| Software | France | 2016 | |
| SaaS | France | 2018 |
France· Entry 2017France· Entry 2017France· Entry 2025France· Entry 2019France· Entry 2017France· Entry 2023France· Entry 2015France· Entry 2018France· Entry 2021France· Entry 2015France· Entry 2023France· Entry 2018France· Entry 2015France· Entry 2016France· Entry 2020France· Entry 2015France· Entry 2019France· Entry 2017France· Entry 2020France· Entry 2014France· Entry 2013France· Entry 2016France· Entry 2018Realized
2 exits| Company | Sector | Geo | Entry | Exit | Type | Buyer | MOIC |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| E-commerce | France | 2018 | 2023 | Trade Sale | – | ||
| Energy | France | 2019 | 2023 | Trade Sale | – |
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About Expanso Capital
Expanso Capital is the dedicated private equity investment subsidiary of Caisse d'Epargne Aquitaine Poitou-Charentes, itself part of Groupe BPCE. The entity is registered in Bordeaux, France, and was originally created in 1999; Caisse d'Epargne relaunched it in 2014, reviving the historic mission of the former regional development company Expanso. It is a corporate bank-captive investor, a regional development-capital vehicle rather than an independent third-party fund manager, investing the parent savings bank's own resources. It does not publish a formal assets-under-management figure and operates as a single regional balance-sheet investment vehicle rather than a multi-fund manager. The firm has made roughly 19 investments to date, with activity recorded as recently as 2025.
Investment thesis
Expanso Capital pursues a regional development and growth-capital strategy, taking minority equity stakes to strengthen the capital base of companies. It invests exclusively in corporate clients of Caisse d'Epargne Aquitaine Poitou-Charentes, across all sectors and at all maturity stages, with the explicit aim of supporting growth and economic development in its territory, the Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Poitou-Charentes region of southwest France. Tickets are deliberately modest, typically €50,000 to €300,000 and up to around €500,000 in a first round. The firm invests alone but more often co-invests alongside other institutional funds, business angels or crowdfunding platforms, complementing the parent bank's buyout and transmission financing. The value-creation lever is regional proximity and the parent bank's local network.
Recent activity
Recent investments include Aquipierre, a regional company (2025), drawn from a portfolio of regional corporate clients across mixed sectors in southwest France. No specific dated exits have been publicly disclosed; as a small evergreen regional vehicle the firm does not individually publicise realisations. The platform continues to deploy minority development capital into corporate clients of Caisse d'Epargne Aquitaine Poitou-Charentes across the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. Detailed buyer names and multiple data available on Pro at €29/month.
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