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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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Droege Group

Droege Group is an independent, fully family-owned advisory and investment company founded in 1988 by Walter P. J. Droeg…

Founded 19881 funds
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Harald Quandt Industriebeteiligungen

Harald Quandt Industriebeteiligungen (HQIB) is a Bad Homburg-based evergreen investment holding of the Harald Quandt fam…

Founded 20181 funds
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CAPCELLENCE Mittelstandspartner

CAPCELLENCE Mittelstandspartner is a Hamburg-based independent single-family-office private equity holding founded in 20…

Founded 20051 funds
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Serafin Unternehmensgruppe

Serafin Unternehmensgruppe is a Munich-based family industrial evergreen holding founded in 2010 by Philipp Haindl, Falk…

Founded 20101 funds
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ELF Capital Group

ELF Capital Group is a Frankfurt-based private credit manager providing flexible, mostly senior-secured financing (typic…

Founded 20201 funds
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VTC Industriebeteiligungen

VTC (VTC Industriebeteiligungen / VTC Unternehmer GmbH) is an independent evergreen industrial holding based in Munich,…

Founded 19921 funds
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DEDIQ

DEDIQ is a Munich-based entrepreneur-investor (family equity) firm founded in 2011 that invests its own long-term capita…

Founded 20111 funds
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Senovo

Senovo is a Munich and Berlin based early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2011 that invests in global B2B cloud an…

Founded 20114 funds
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Deutsche Bank Corporate Venture Capital

Deutsche Bank Corporate Venture Capital is the strategic corporate venture capital arm of Deutsche Bank AG, headquartere…

Founded 20221 funds
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Isartal Ventures

Isartal Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Wort & Bild Verlag (publisher of Apotheken Umschau), founded in…

Founded 20182 funds
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Diehl Ventures

Diehl Ventures GmbH is the corporate venture capital arm of the German industrial group Diehl (Diehl Stiftung & Co. KG),…

Founded 20151 funds
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INDUS Holding AG

INDUS Holding AG is a listed (SDAX, ticker INH, ISIN DE0006200108) German buy-and-hold industrial holding based in Bergi…

Founded 19891 funds
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SevenVentures

SevenVentures is the media-for-equity investment arm of German broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE, founded in 2009 and…

Founded 20092 funds
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W&W brandpool

W&W brandpool GmbH is the corporate venture capital and digital-innovation unit of listed German insurance and building-…

Founded 20151 funds
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DCCP Deutsche Credit Capital Partners

DCCP Deutsche Credit Capital Partners (trading as Deutsche Credit) is a Frankfurt-headquartered private-credit manager f…

Founded 2018
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Doehler Ventures

Doehler Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Doehler Group SE, the family-owned Darmstadt-based producer of…

Founded 20141 funds
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Family Trust Investor FTI

Family Trust Investor FTI GmbH is a Munich-based, BaFin-registered manager of closed-end special AIFs (registered sub-th…

Founded 20142 funds
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DRS Investment

DRS Investment is a Munich-based evergreen software holding founded in 2017 by Dr. Andreas Spiegel and backed by the per…

Founded 20171 funds
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Miele Venture Capital

Miele Venture Capital is the corporate venture arm of German premium-appliance maker Miele, registered in Guetersloh in…

Founded 20161 funds
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GMPVC German Media Pool

GMPVC German Media Pool is Germanys leading independent media-for-equity fund, founded in 2011 and based in Berlin, prov…

Founded 20112 funds
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Brockhaus Technologies

Brockhaus Technologies AG is a Frankfurt-listed evergreen technology holding (formerly Brockhaus Capital Management AG,…

Founded 20171 funds
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Lafayette Mittelstand Capital

Lafayette Mittelstand Capital is a Munich-operated, Luxembourg-domiciled special-situations investor founded in 2009 tha…

Founded 20093 funds
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Caldec Holding

Caldec Holding is an independent Hamburg-based entrepreneurial holding company that makes long-term direct equity invest…

Founded 20091 funds
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PREMIUM Equity Partners

PREMIUM Equity Partners is a Frankfurt-based small-cap private equity firm founded in 2011 that acquires majority stakes…

Founded 20113 funds
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QVM Privatkapital

QVM Privatkapital is an independent, owner-managed Hamburg investment firm founded in 2017 by former Lampe Privatinvest…

Founded 20171 funds
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Bitburger Holding

Bitburger Holding GmbH is the family-equity holding of the Simon entrepreneurial family (owners of the Bitburger brewery…

Founded 19982 funds
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MGO Digital Ventures

MGO Digital Ventures GmbH is the corporate venture capital arm of Mediengruppe Oberfranken (mgo), a Bamberg-based multim…

Founded 20131 funds
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DUBAG Group

DUBAG Group is a Munich-based private equity advisory firm founded in 2009 that specializes in special-situations invest…

Founded 20093 funds
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Media Ventures

Media Ventures GmbH is the private evergreen balance-sheet investment vehicle of Cologne media entrepreneur Dirk Stroeer…

Founded 20001 funds
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SKion GmbH

SKion GmbH is the evergreen investment holding of German entrepreneur Susanne Klatten, founded in 2006 after the sale of…

Founded 20062 funds
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Cipio Partners

Cipio Partners is a Munich-headquartered growth capital and secondary-directs investment firm founded in 2003, one of th…

Founded 20032 funds
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TAKKT Venture Capital

TAKKT Venture Capital is the corporate venture capital arm of TAKKT AG, a Stuttgart-based B2B direct-marketing and e-com…

Founded 20161 funds
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HBL InvestmentPartners

HBL InvestmentPartners is a Frankfurt-based small-mid buyout firm founded in 2018 that pools capital from successful Ger…

Founded 20181 funds
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pd ventures

pd ventures (PDV Inter-Media Venture GmbH) is the corporate venture arm of Mediengruppe Pressedruck, the Augsburg-based…

Founded 20091 funds
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Tengelmann Ventures

Tengelmann Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of the Muelheim-based Tengelmann family retail group, investing…

Founded 20091 funds
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Findos Investor

Findos Investor is an independent Munich-based small-mid-cap private equity firm founded in 2006 that acquires majority…

Founded 20064 funds
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Alveus Beteiligungen

Alveus Beteiligungen is a Munich-based family-owned evergreen Mittelstand holding founded in 2012 that acquires majority…

Founded 20121 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…

€56,000Founded 19844 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…

€20,000Founded 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…

€15,000Founded 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…

€12,000Founded 19171 funds
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Luxcara

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

€7,500Founded 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…

€7,000Founded 20154 funds
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BP Technology Ventures

BP Ventures is the corporate venture-capital arm of UK energy major BP plc, making direct minority investments off BP's…

Founded 20061 funds
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TPA Capital

TPA Capital LLP is a London-based private equity firm founded in 2013 by Greg Allen. It is an evergreen permanent-capita…

Founded 20131 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…

Founded 20086 funds
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LDC

LDC is the mid-market private equity arm of Lloyds Banking Group, founded in 1981 as Lloyds Development Capital, investi…

Founded 19811 funds
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Beech Tree Private Equity

Beech Tree PE LLP, trading as Beech Tree Private Equity, is a private equity firm founded in 2015 and based in Wilmslow,…

Founded 20153 funds
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Piper PE

Piper is a London-based specialist growth-equity investor backing fast-growing UK consumer brands across food and drink,…

Founded 19852 funds
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Perwyn

Perwyn is a London-headquartered, family-backed European private and growth equity investor founded in 2013, operating a…

Founded 20131 funds
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Shackleton Ventures

Shackleton Ventures is a London-based secondary-direct venture and development capital investor founded in 2006. It acqu…

Founded 20061 funds
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Frog Capital

Frog Capital is a London-based growth equity and venture firm founded in 2009 by Mike Reid, specialising in European sof…

Founded 20092 funds
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Brookstreet Equity Partners

Brookstreet Equity Partners LLP is an independent, FCA-registered (FRN 773966) UK growth-capital manager founded in 2016…

Founded 20161 funds
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Ama Capital

Ama Capital is a London-based lower mid-market private equity firm founded in 2024 by Miles Otway and Ed Ransome, both f…

Founded 20241 funds
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Pelican Capital

Pelican Capital LLP is a London-based lower-mid-market private equity firm co-investing alongside family offices in prof…

Founded 20191 funds
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Growth Capital Partners

Growth Capital Partners LLP is an independent lower mid-market private equity firm founded in 1999 as Close Growth Capit…

Founded 19993 funds
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FPE Capital

FPE Capital LLP is a London-based lower-mid-market growth private equity firm investing exclusively in profitable UK and…

Founded 20153 funds
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Kings Park Capital

Kings Park Capital LLP is an independent lower mid-market private equity firm focused exclusively on the European leisur…

Founded 20072 funds
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Blue Coast Capital

Blue Coast Capital is the London-based investment organisation of the Lewis family, founders and owners of the River Isl…

Founded 20191 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…

€103,040Founded 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…

€86,600Founded 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…

€80,000Founded 19855 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…

€70,840Founded 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…

€69,000Founded 20007 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…

€43,056Founded 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…

€18,000Founded 20065 funds
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Foresight Group

Foresight Group is a London Stock Exchange listed investment manager (LSE: FSG; manager entity Foresight Group LLP, Comp…

€15,444Founded 20017 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…

€13,800Founded 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…

€12,700Founded 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 Giuse…

€11,700Founded 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…

€11,000Founded 19996 funds
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GHO Capital

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

€9,000Founded 20144 funds
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SOFIDEP

Sofidep is a public economic development organization in French Polynesia that has been investing for over 20 years in g…

Founded 19572 funds
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Re-Sources Capital

Re-Sources Capital is a French private equity firm founded in 2014, based in La Madeleine, specializing in supporting th…

Founded 20141 funds
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Jadel

Jadel est une société d'investissement entrepreneuriale française, créée en 2021, qui accompagne les PME ambitieuses dan…

Founded 20211 funds
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Bpifrance Investissement

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

Founded 200113 funds
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Reed Management

Reed - Societe Generale Group is a European investment firm founded in 2023 that brings together industrial expertise, t…

Founded 20231 funds
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KEPLER CHEUVREUX INVEST

Out-of-scope quarantine: Kepler Cheuvreux is an independent Pan-European equity broker (research, execution, fixed incom…

Founded 1998
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Isai Gestion

ISAI Gestion is a French venture capital and private equity firm founded in 2009, managing approximately c550 million i…

Founded 20085 funds
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Kurma Partners

Kurma Partners is a European venture capital firm founded in 2009, specializing in financing innovation in healthcare an…

Founded 20088 funds
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FemuQui Ventures

Femuqui Ventures is an independent portfolio management company founded in 1992, specializing in private equity investme…

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Smalt Capital

Créée en 2000, Smalt Capital est une société française de capital-investissement basée à Marseille, spécialisée dans le…

Founded 20004 funds
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Investisseurs et Partenaires

Investisseurs & Partenaires (I&P), founded in 2002 and based in Paris and Burkina Faso, is a pioneering impact investmen…

Founded 20069 funds
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2050

2050 is a Paris-based investment fund founded in 2020 that combines performance and company alignment to craft a fertile…

Founded 20201 funds
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Red River West

Red River West is a Paris-based venture capital firm founded in 2017 that invests in outstanding European tech companies…

Founded 20172 funds
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Chequers Partenaires

Chequers Partenaires SA is a private equity firm based in Paris, France, founded in 1992, specializing in investments in…

Founded 19895 funds
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TELAMON

Telamon Partners is a private equity firm focused on the Greek mid-market, partnering with management teams to unlock su…

Founded 2005
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Vermeer Capital

Vermeer Capital is an independent Paris-based private equity firm founded in 2008 by Jean-Louis Detry. The firm speciali…

Founded 20081 funds
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ACCESS CAPITAL PARTNERS

Access Capital Partners, founded in 1998 and based in Paris, is an independent European private assets manager specializ…

Founded 1998
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LT Capital

Quarantined 2026-05-19: DB record LT Capital conflated TWO distinct venture and PE firms with identical trading name. Th…

Founded 2019
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Ardian

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

€196,000Founded 199534 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…

€52,800Founded 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…

€33,000Founded 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…

€27,000Founded 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…

€13,200Founded 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…

€11,600Founded 200210 funds
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ATALANTE

Atalante SAS = legal entity (founded 2003) for the commercial brand Capza (AMF GP-04000065). DUPLICATE: Capza GP (id f40…

€10,500Founded 20031 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…

€9,000Founded 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…

€7,000Founded 20091 funds
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ENTRUST GLOBAL

EnTrust Global SAS is a member of the EnTrust Global group, an alternative investment firm managing approximately $16.4…

€16,400Founded 2011
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