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Growth Equity GPs in Europe

Find growth equity GPs investing in scaling companies across European markets. Growth equity firms provide expansion capital to profitable, fast-growing businesses without requiring a change of control.

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Ardian

Ardian is a global diversified private markets firm headquartered in Paris, France, founded in 1996. It manages or advis…

€196.0BFounded 199634 funds
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Bpifrance Investissement

Bpifrance Investissement is the investment management company of Bpifrance, the French public investment bank, operating…

€57.3BFounded 200113 funds
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Tikehau Capital

Tikehau Capital is a global alternative asset management group founded in 2004 and headquartered in Paris. It manages ap…

€52.8BFounded 200413 funds
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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…

€33.0BFounded 199812 funds
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LFPI GESTION

La Financiere Patrimoniale d'Investissement (LFPI) is a major French alternative asset manager founded 2003 with around…

€27.0BFounded 20033 funds
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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…

€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…

€11.6BFounded 200210 funds
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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 deco…

€11.2BFounded 20131 funds
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ARCHIMED

ARCHIMED is a global private equity firm founded in 2014 and headquartered in Lyon, France, focused exclusively on healt…

€9.0BFounded 20106 funds
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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…

€7.0BFounded 20094 funds
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Omnes Capital

Omnes Capital is a leading European private equity firm founded in 1999, dedicated to the energy transition and innovati…

€6.7BFounded 199913 funds
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Quilvest Capital Partners

Quilvest Capital Partners is a leading global investment manager specializing in the middle market segment, managing ass…

€6.5BFounded 20176 funds
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Seven2

Seven2, formerly Apax Partners, is a leading independent European private equity firm founded in 1972 and headquartered…

€5.0BFounded 20087 funds
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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 Roths…

€4.3BFounded 20038 funds
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Peugeot Invest

Peugeot Invest is a listed long-term investment company, majority-owned by Établissements Peugeot Frères, founded in 192…

€4.2BFounded 19563 funds
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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 fo…

€4.0BFounded 19791 funds
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Sofinnova Partners

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

€4.0BFounded 199713 funds
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ISALT

ISALT is an independent portfolio management company founded in 2019, specializing in long-term equity investments in Fr…

€3.0BFounded 20083 funds
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Audacia

Audacia is an independent French private equity firm founded in 2006, specializing in growth capital for family SMEs and…

€2.8BFounded 20069 funds
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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…

€2.6BFounded 19914 funds
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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…

€2.5BFounded 20155 funds
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Partech Partners

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

€2.5BFounded 19824 funds
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RGreen Invest

RGreen Invest is an independent, mission-driven French asset manager founded in 2013 by Nicolas Rochon and dedicated exc…

€2.5BFounded 20135 funds
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Idia

IDIA Capital Investissement, founded in 1980 and based in Montrouge, France, is the private equity arm of Crédit Agricol…

€2.4BFounded 20085 funds
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Argos Wityu

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

€2.3B5 funds
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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…

€2.1BFounded 19881 funds
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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…

€2.0BFounded 20181 funds
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MML Capital

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

€2.0BFounded 20199 funds
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Raise

RAISE is a Paris-based European investment and innovation group founded in 2013 by Clara Gaymard and Gonzague de Blignie…

€2.0BFounded 20134 funds
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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 t…

€2.0BFounded 20144 funds
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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 E…

€1.9BFounded 20059 funds
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Creadev International

Evergreen family investment vehicle of the Mulliez family, founders of Auchan, Decathlon and Leroy Merlin, created in 20…

€1.8BFounded 20021 funds
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Entrepreneur Invest

Entrepreneur Invest is a French independent asset management company founded in 2000, specializing in financing French g…

€1.8BFounded 20006 funds
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ICG

ICG plc (Intermediate Capital Group) is a London-listed (FTSE 100) global alternative asset manager founded in 1989, man…

€103.0BFounded 19897 funds
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Bridgepoint

Bridgepoint Group plc is a London-headquartered private markets firm founded in 1984 and listed on the London Stock Exch…

€86.6BFounded 19849 funds
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Permira

Permira is a global private equity firm founded in 1985 that invests through flagship buyout funds and dedicated growth…

€80.0BFounded 19857 funds
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Apax Partners

Apax Partners LLP is a global private equity firm headquartered in London, investing in buyout and growth deals across t…

€70.8BFounded 19817 funds
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Hg

Hg is a London-headquartered private equity firm founded in 2000, focused on software and business-services buyouts acro…

€69.0BFounded 20009 funds
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3i

3i Group plc is a London-listed (LSE: III, FTSE 100) international investment manager focused on mid-market private equi…

€43.1BFounded 19451 funds
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Vitruvian Partners

Vitruvian Partners LLP is a London-headquartered growth-buyout private equity firm founded in 2006 by former partners of…

€18.0BFounded 20065 funds
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Foresight Group

Foresight Group is a London Stock Exchange listed investment manager (LSE: FSG), whose management entity Foresight Group…

€15.4BFounded 20018 funds
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IK Partners

IK Partners is a pan-European mid-market private equity firm founded in 1989 as Industri Kapital and headquartered in Lo…

€13.8BFounded 198918 funds
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Oakley Capital

Oakley Capital is a London-based pan-European private equity firm founded in 2002, investing across technology, educatio…

€12.7BFounded 20029 funds
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Index Ventures

Index Ventures is a global venture and growth capital firm founded in Geneva in 1996 by Neil Rimer, David Rimer and Gius…

€11.7BFounded 19967 funds
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Inflexion

Inflexion is a European mid-market private equity firm founded in 1999 by John Hartz and Simon Turner and headquartered…

€11.0BFounded 199911 funds
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GHO Capital

GHO Capital (Global Healthcare Opportunities) is a London-based specialist healthcare investment firm founded in 2014, r…

€9.0BFounded 20144 funds
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Balderton Capital

Balderton Capital is a London-based venture capital firm founded in 2000, originally as the European arm of Benchmark Ca…

€6.4BFounded 20007 funds
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Livingbridge

Livingbridge is a London-based mid-market private equity firm founded in 1995 (formerly ISIS Equity Partners, rebranded…

€4.4BFounded 19956 funds
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Atomico

Atomico (UK) Partners LLP is a London-based pan-European venture capital firm founded in 2006 by Niklas Zennström, the c…

€4.1BFounded 20066 funds
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BGF

BGF (Business Growth Fund) is the UK and Ireland's most active growth-capital investor, established in 2011 by Barclays,…

€3.5BFounded 20111 funds
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Caledonia Investments

Caledonia Investments plc is a London-based, self-managed FTSE 250 investment trust (LSE: CLDN) incorporated in 1928 and…

€3.5BFounded 19281 funds
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G Square Healthcare PE

G Square Healthcare Private Equity LLP is a London-based pan-European private equity firm founded in 2008 by Laurent Gan…

€3.3BFounded 20086 funds
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ECI Partners

ECI Partners is a UK growth-focused mid-market private equity firm founded in 1976 as Equity Capital for Industry under…

€2.8BFounded 19766 funds
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Bowmark Capital

Bowmark Capital LLP is a London-based mid-market private equity firm founded in 1997 (originally Sagitta Private Equity,…

€2.3BFounded 19975 funds
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Development Bank of Wales

The Development Bank of Wales (Banc Datblygu Cymru) is the Welsh Government's wholly-owned development bank, launched in…

€2.3BFounded 20001 funds
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Mercia Asset Management

Mercia Asset Management PLC (AIM: MERC) is a UK AIM-listed regionally focused private capital asset manager incorporated…

€2.3BFounded 20101 funds
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Apis Partners Group

Apis Partners is a London-headquartered private-equity firm founded in 2014 that invests in tech-enabled financial infra…

€2.1BFounded 20143 funds
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Bridges Fund Management

Bridges Fund Management, formerly Bridges Ventures, is a London-based sustainable and impact investment manager founded…

€2.0BFounded 20024 funds
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Synova

Synova is a London-based private equity firm founded in 2007 by David Menton and Philip Shapiro, investing in lower and…

€2.0BFounded 20074 funds
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Mayfair Equity Partners

Mayfair Equity Partners LLP is a London-based growth-buyout private equity firm founded in 2014 by Daniel Sasaki, invest…

€1.9BFounded 20143 funds
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Abingworth

Abingworth is a transatlantic life-sciences investment firm founded in 1973 and one of the longest-established dedicated…

€1.8BFounded 19736 funds
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Tenzing

Tenzing Private Equity is a London-based lower-mid-market growth-equity and buyout firm founded in 2015 that backs high-…

€1.8BFounded 20154 funds
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PATRIZIA SE

PATRIZIA SE is a listed Augsburg-headquartered global real-assets manager whose infrastructure equity arm (built on the…

€55.9BFounded 19845 funds
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Athos

Athos (ATHOS KG / Athos Service GmbH) is the Munich-based single-family office and direct-investment arm of twins Andrea…

€20.0BFounded 20011 funds
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KGAL

KGAL is a Gruenwald-based real-asset investment manager founded in 1968 that manages around EUR 15 billion for instituti…

€15.0BFounded 19683 funds
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Viessmann Generations Group

Viessmann Generations Group is the Allendorf-based family-equity and holding platform of the Viessmann family, recast as…

€12.0BFounded 19171 funds
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L. Possehl & Co. mbH (Possehl Group)

Possehl is a Luebeck-based, foundation-owned industrial holding whose sole shareholder has been the non-profit Possehl-S…

€8.4BFounded 18471 funds
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Luxcara

Luxcara is an independent, management-owned asset manager based in Hamburg, founded in 2009, investing institutional cap…

€7.5BFounded 20095 funds
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BU Bregal Unternehmerkapital

DACH mid-market buyout and growth firm founded in Munich in 2015 by Florian Schick and Jan-Daniel Neumann together with…

€7.0BFounded 20155 funds
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Aquila Capital

Aquila Capital is a Hamburg-based alternative investment manager and BaFin-licensed AIFM founded in 2001 by Roman Rossle…

€6.5BFounded 20015 funds
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Armira

Armira is a Munich-based investment holding founded in 2008 by Alexander Schemann that invests permanent capital from en…

€5.0BFounded 20083 funds
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NORD Holding

Hannover private equity investor founded in 1969 and rooted in the Sparkassen savings-bank and VGH insurance orbit, with…

€5.0BFounded 19695 funds
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DPE Deutsche Private Equity

Munich mid-market buyout and growth firm founded in 2007 by Marc Thiery and Volker Hichert, initially operating as Parco…

€3.0BFounded 20075 funds
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Target Global

Target Global is a Berlin-headquartered pan-European venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Shmuel Chafets and Yaron Va…

€3.0BFounded 20155 funds
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HV Capital

HV Capital is a Munich and Berlin based venture capital firm founded in 2000 as Holtzbrinck Ventures, the corporate VC a…

€2.8BFounded 20008 funds
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CYCAP Asset Management

CEE Group is a Hamburg-based renewable-energy infrastructure asset manager founded in 2000, managing around EUR 2.7bn ac…

€2.7BFounded 20002 funds
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Bertelsmann Investments

Bertelsmann Investments is the corporate venture capital umbrella of German media and services group Bertelsmann, bundli…

€2.3BFounded 20063 funds
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AGIC Capital

AGIC Capital is a Euro-Asian private equity firm founded in 2015 by Henry Cai, investing in industrial technology, advan…

€2.0BFounded 20152 funds
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Rocket Internet SE

Rocket Internet SE is a Berlin-based company builder and evergreen technology holding founded in 2007 by brothers Marc,…

€1.9BFounded 20071 funds
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Global Founders Capital

Global Founders Capital (GFC Global Founders Capital GmbH) is the Berlin-based, stage-agnostic venture capital platform…

€1.8BFounded 20132 funds
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Leaps by Bayer

Leaps by Bayer is the impact-focused corporate venture capital arm of Bayer AG, founded in 2015 to invest off the compan…

€1.8BFounded 20151 funds
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CDP Equity

CDP Equity is the evergreen strategic-equity arm of Italian state lender Cassa Depositi e Prestiti, wholly owned by CDP…

€15.0BFounded 20111 funds
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Tamburi Investment Partners (TIP)

Tamburi Investment Partners (TIP) is a Milan-listed independent evergreen investment-merchant holding founded by Giovann…

€5.0BFounded 19916 funds
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CDP Venture Capital SGR

CDP Venture Capital SGR is Italy's largest venture capital manager, controlled by the Cassa Depositi e Prestiti group (C…

€4.9BFounded 20204 funds
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Fondo Italiano d'Investimento SGR

Fondo Italiano d'Investimento SGR is a Milan-based, state-anchored asset manager created in 2010 on the initiative of It…

€4.3BFounded 20106 funds
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FSI SGR

FSI SGR is a Milan-based growth-capital asset manager created in 2016 out of the reorganization of Fondo Strategico Ital…

€3.5BFounded 20162 funds
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Renaissance Partners

Renaissance Partners is a Milan- and Luxembourg-based private equity firm and one of the leading Italian-led mid-large b…

€3.5BFounded 20153 funds
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Italmobiliare

Italmobiliare is a Milan-listed investment holding company controlled by the Pesenti family and founded in 1946 as the f…

€2.3BFounded 19461 funds
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Nextalia SGR

Nextalia SGR is a Milan-based independent Italian asset manager founded in 2021 by former Mediobanca banker Francesco Ca…

€2.3BFounded 20211 funds
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Quadrivio Group

Quadrivio Group is a Milan-based private equity and alternative investments firm founded in 1999, running a family of th…

€2.0BFounded 19995 funds
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Equiter

Equiter is a Turin-based investor and fund advisor specialised in infrastructure, urban regeneration and research-and-in…

€1.9BFounded 19985 funds
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Portobello Capital

Portobello Capital is an independent Iberian mid-market private equity manager based in Madrid, founded in 2010 by a tea…

€3.7BFounded 20106 funds
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Tresmares Capital

Tresmares Capital is a Madrid-based alternative asset manager launched in 2020 with the backing of Banco Santander, whic…

€3.2BFounded 20203 funds
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Inveready Asset Management

Inveready Asset Management is a Spanish multi-strategy alternative investment manager founded in 2008 and based in San S…

€2.7BFounded 20087 funds
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Kinnevik

Kinnevik is a Stockholm-based investment company founded in 1936 and listed on Nasdaq Stockholm that today deploys perma…

€3.2BFounded 19361 funds
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Impilo

Impilo is a Nordic healthcare-focused investment company founded in 2017 by former Altor partners Fredrik Stromholm and…

€2.0BFounded 20173 funds
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Bure Equity

Bure Equity is a Stockholm-listed permanent-capital investment company, formed in 1992 from Sweden's wound-up wage-earne…

€1.8BFounded 19922 funds
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Cobepa

Cobepa is an independent Belgian investment holding company founded in 1957 and headquartered in Brussels, with addition…

€5.5BFounded 19571 funds
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Apheon

Apheon Advisors France S.A is a pan-European mid-market private equity firm founded in 2005, managing approximately €4.5…

€4.5BFounded 20109 funds
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Novo Holdings

Novo Holdings is the holding and investment company of the Novo Nordisk Foundation, a world-leading life science investo…

€93.0BFounded 19996 funds
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