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Contentsquare raises $190M in a Series D funding round

Contentsquare, the cloud-based platform that helps businesses understand how and why users are interacting with their app, mobile and web sites, has closed $190 million in Series D funding.This new capital will help Eurazeo Growth's portfolio company to continue to invest heavily in innovation, ...

A positive outlook for Eurazeo Growth in a more digital world

The Eurazeo Growth companies, which currently account for 12% of the Group’s net asset value (more than € 700 million) are successfully weathering the crisis and most have seen the pace pick up in their underlying markets.

Kurma Partners announces the final closing of its Kurma Biofund III fund at €160 million

Validation of Kurma Partners’ business model with the closing of its third fund dedicated to Life Sciences for a significantly larger amount than its two first funds, Kurma Biofund I (€51m) and Kurma Biofund II (€55m). Kurma Partners goes from managing approximately €250M to mor ...

London-based Lifebit Biotech raises $7.5 million Series A

Lifebit Biotech, a London-based big data processor for medical research, has raised $7.5 million (£6 million) in Series A funding to fuel ongoing product development and international expansion. The round was led by Idinvest Partners, with participation from previous investors Pentech Ventures ...

Vestiaire Collective raises €59 million

Vestiaire Collective raises €59 million to support its community in changing the fashion industry for a better tomorrow. The Eurazeo Group (Eurazeo Growth and Idinvest Venture funds) reinvests, as well as other existing shareholders Bpifrance, Vitruvian Partners, Conde Nast, Luxury Tech Fu ...

Xilam Animation’s I Lost My Body Triumphs at the César Awards 2020

Animation film 'I Lost my Body', produced by our Digital portfolio company Xilam Animation, took home two wins at the 45th César Awards for Best Animated Film and Best Original Score.

MWM raises €50 million to become the world's leading creation apps publisher

Today MWM, the world's #1 music app publisher announced a new series B funding round of €50 million led by blisce/, Idinvest Partners, Bpifrance via its Large Venture fund, Algaé Ventures, as well as with Xavier Niel who also joined the round.

Idinvest Partners finances 6 of the companies named in the Global Cleantech 100

BNP Paribas and CA Champagne Bourgogne sign a syndicate loan with BioSerenity

In only 6 years, BioSerenity has become one of the world leaders in electrophysiology. The company is currently experiencing a strong growth and was able to impose its leadership in France and in the US, through its range of expertise in electroencephalogram (EEG), electrocardiogram (ECG), ...

LumApps, a Eurazeo Growth portfolio company, has raised 70m$

LumApps, a Eurazeo Growth portfolio company, has raised 70m$

HEC launches the investment fund ‘HEC Ventures’ in partnership with Idinvest

HEC launches the investment fund ‘HEC Ventures’ in partnership with Idinvest.

The film “I lost my body”, produced by our portfolio company Xilam Animation, has been nominated for the Oscars 2020, in the best animation film category

The film “I lost my body”, produced by our portfolio company Xilam Animation, has been nominated for the Oscars 2020, in the best animation film category

Sensome raises $9 million B round with equity investment from Asahi Intecc

Sensome, the company pioneering the connected medical device revolution with the world's smallest biological tissue sensor, announced today the successful completion of a 9 million dollar financing round from its historical investors (Kurma Partners, Idinvest Partners, BNP Paribas Dévelop ...

PRESS RELEASE - Idinvest Partners finances Keensight Capital's acquisition of 3P Biopharmaceuticals

Idinvest Partners, a leading investor in SMEs across Europe, has arranged the unitranche financing of Keensight Capital's acquisition of 3P Biopharmaceuticals. It is the 8th deal closed this year by Idinvest's Private Debt team in the Iberian Peninsula.

Idinvest wins Best Venture Capital Fund at the Private Equity Exchange & Awards 2019

PRESS RELEASE - Eurazeo Growth reinforces its team, continuing its expansion across Europe

Committed to reinforcing its position in Europe, Eurazeo Growth, led by Benoist Grossmann, Managing Partner, is pleased to announce the recruitment of Nathalie Kornhoff-Brüls and Zoé Fabian as Managing Directors and Maud Gillot as Associate. The seven-person team is determined to establi ...

Direct Lending over the past 4 months

PRESS RELEASE - Idinvest Partners announces final close of the Idinvest Digital Fund III at 350 M€

Idinvest Partners, a leading investor in SMEs across Europe, has announced the final closing of its third digital fund at €350m, having surpassed its initial fundraising target of €300m.

PRESS RELEASE - Idinvest Partners appoints two new Managing Partners

Idinvest Partners announces the appointment of Sylviane Guyonnet, COO of Idinvest and Eric Gallerne, Co-Head of Private Debt Strategy, as Managing Partners.

FirstFuel, a Smart City portfolio company of Idinvest Partners, is acquired by Uplight

2019 Sustainability & Impact report

White Paper European PE Secondary Market

Idinvest celebrates the achievements of its Smart City fund in Singapore

DiShangTie, Smart City's latest investment

Vestiaire Collective raises €40m to fuel international growth

The French global luxury fashion resale company has over 8 million members across 50 countries worldwide. This funding will help accelerate international growth, particularly in Asia, and drive widespread adoption of sustainable and circular consumption.

Meero, Idinvest Partners' portfolio company, announces record funding round of $230m

Meero, the first on-demand photograph platform in the world, is already present in over 100 countries and delivers a photoshoot to a client every 25 seconds. This fundraising will enable the startup to develop its solutions for new audiences and perfect its automatic photo editing and content enrich ...

BioSerenity closes €65m funding to extend its activity into the US

Specialising in remote diagnostic solutions for several chronic disease areas, this medical technology company already operates with more than two hundred healthcare facilities around the globe, helping them to perform more efficient medical procedures. With this financing the startup aims to accele ...

PRESS RELEASE - Idinvest closes its first ISIA fund at €340m

Idinvest Partners has announced the final closing of the ISIA Fund (Idinvest SME Industrial Assets) at €340m, surpassing its initial target of €300m by 13%. Launched at the end of 2017, ISIA is the first diversified fund intended to finance the modernisation of production tool ...

Idinvest Partners' Healthcare portfolio company DNA Script closes funding round to accelerate commercial operations in the US

With their innovative enzymatic technology, DNA Script has overcome many of the inefficiencies of today's synthetic DNA production and allows researchers to accelerate their experiments. This funding round will be used to accelerate the development of the company's first products and expand its team ...

A snapshot look at the Private Debt Activity

Heetch raises $38 million to accelerate its expansion in France and French-speaking Africa

The Paris-based high-growth ride-sharing platform is already operating in 9 cities in France and recently very successfully launched operations in Morocco. The company aims to use this funding to become the leading ride sharing platform across French-speaking markets and plans to launch in Central a ...

Glovo raises $168m to expand its delivery platform

The Spanish startup enables customers to order anything locally on-demand from food and groceries to electronics and pharmaceutical goods via its app. Glovo now operates in 124 cities across 21 countries and, with this new round financed once again by Idinvest, intends to boost its global growth and ...

WeMaintain closes €7m funding round to consolidate in Paris and accelerate internationally

WeMaintain joins Idinvest's Smart City portfolio having managed to establish itself on the historically closed elevator repair market. The startup's platform assembles qualified mechanics and allows them to work independently. Having already attracted large clients in Paris' Central Busi ...

Alsid raises $14.7m to take its Active Directory protection service international

This SaaS startup in Idinvest's Digital portfolio monitors clients' Active Directory and offers protection from hackers. Alsid already monitors 3 million Active Directory users and has attracted big companies including Groupe Accor, Orange and Sanofi. This funding will help Alsid to expand internati ...

Alsid, Idinvest's Digital portfolio company, raises €13m to expand internationally

The pioneering startup which has a revolutionary approach to Active Directory cyber-security achieved more than 500% growth in 2018 and has attracted clients such as Orange, Sanofi and Sodexo. This funding will allow Alsid to expand into new markets including the United Kingdom, Singapore, Germany a ...

LumApps, Idinvest's Growth portfolio company, closes $24m funding round to scale global sales and accelerate product development

LumApps, which offers companies a social web-styled intranet to connect employees, now has offices in London, Tokyo, San Francisco and New York in addition to its Paris office. With over 4 million users globally and clients ranging from The Economist to EA and Logitech, the startup is poised to cont ...

A snapshot look at the VC & Growth Activity

Peakon, Idinvest's Digital portfolio company, closes extension to Series B funding to scale their platform

Creator of the world's leading employee retention platform, Peakon has closed a $35m extension to their Series B funding round to bring the total to $57m. Their SaaS platform which brings managers and employees together is already used by clients such as Verizon, BMW and easyJet. Following impressiv ...

Vivet Therapeutics, Idinvest's healthcare portfolio company, to collaborate with Pfizer

Pfizer has acquired a 15% equity interest in gene therapy company Vivet and secured an exclusive option to acquire the company. The two companies will collaborate with Pfizer on the development of Vivet's proprietary treatment for Wilson disease and this partnership will help them to continue to dev ...

Peakon raises further $35m for its Employee Retention Platform

The Denmark-based company has evolved into a fully-fledged SaaS platform for employee retention. Last year it opened an office in New York, and it aims to continue to grow in the US following this extension to their funding round.Read the full article here.

Idinvest Partners has been awarded Best Small Deal at the Private Equity Wire Awards 2019

wefox Group raises $125m to expand across Europe

German insurtech startup wefox, part of Idinvest's Digital portfolio, has secured $125 million in financing to expand into other European markets. The company operates digital platforms that connect insurers, brokers and consumers and it one of the fastest-growing insurance technology firms, with an ...

wefox Group, Idinvest Digital portfolio company, raises $125M to expand into European broker market

The Berlin-based insurtech firm which facilitates insurance management for companies and their customers has grown its revenues to $40m and now serves more than 1500 brokers and over 400,000 customers. This Series B funding round will help spearhead the company's expansion into the European broker m ...

Botify, Idinvest Digital portfolio company, raises $20m to fuel global expansion

The French startup helps companies optimise their organic search performance. Botify is already working with hundreds of brands including Nike, Expedia, Marriott and Conde Nast, and aims to use this funding round to extend their worldwide footprint and fuel product innovation, customer adoption and ...

Botify, Idinvest Digital portfolio company, raises €20M to further their global expansion

Botify, specialist in organic search marketing, uses its SEO platform to support companies such as Nike, Expedia, Marriott and Conde Nast to build their websites with optimal organic search performance. After an incredible 2018 which saw growth of over 200% for the company in the US, they are openin ...

Idinvest Partners leads Digital portfolio company Malt in raising €25 million funding round

French startup Malt has created a marketplace for companies and engineers working as freelancers. It currently has 10,000 freelancers on the platform and 15,000 companies who use the platform regularly. With this funding round, they aim to grow the platform in other European countries, and are plann ...

PRESS RELEASE - Idinvest closes its second growth fund at €340m

Idinvest Partners, a leading investor in SMEs across Europe, has today announced the final closing of its second capital growth fund (Idinvest Growth Fund II) at €340m, surpassing its initial target of €300m. Idinvest Growth Fund II brings together a panel of renowned investors, of whom mo ...

Cardiologs founder Yann Fleureau featured on Forbes' 30 under 30 list

The founder of Cardiologs, Idinvest Partners' healthcare portfolio company, has been named as one of the 30 under 30 in European Science and Healthcare. Cardiologs helps doctors analyze ECG exams and recognize abnormal heart rhythms. Since partnering with Idinvest in September 2017, Cardiologs has l ...

PRESS RELEASE - Idinvest announces the appointment of Bao Dinh as Investment Director in the Venture Capital team

Idinvest Partners, a leading investor in SMEs across Europe, today announces the appointment of Bao Dinh as Investment Director in the Venture Capital team. In this position, Bao will be involved in sourcing, analysing and executing investments for the Venture Capital team, both in France ...

Idinvest Partners backs French startup Ambler

Ambler raised €1.5 million and joins Idinvest?s Smart City portfolio. Its platform enables individuals and healthcare institutions to book private ambulances and other medical transports in a few clicks. Louis Bô, Investment Manager at Idinvest said ?The team at Ambler has the ambition to answ ...

Idinvest Partners has been named as the Top VC investor in European Series-A deals by Pitchbook

Idinvest reinvests in Digital portfolio company Lunchr in €30m financing round

Lunchr offers business employees a Mastercard as an alternative to meal tickets and is already used by 40,000 clients. They aim to increase the number of users to 200,000 by the end of 2019 and expand in Europe and Latin America.Read the full article here.

Idinvest Partners finances Smart City portfolio company Flash in €55 million funding round

This German startup specialises in providing medium distance transportation solutions and was co-founded by serial entrepreneur Lukasz Gadowski. Flash is planning on launching its electric kick-scooters in cities around Europe and aims to develop and deploy an environmentally-friendly transport syst ...

Sophia Genetics, Idinvest Growth portfolio company, raises $77 million in funding round

The seven-year-old medical technology company, which was founded in Switzerland and has offices in Lausanne and Boston, uses machine learning to help doctors pinpoint mutations in genetic data and diagnose and treat cancer and hereditary conditions.With their technology already present in over 850 h ...

Once again, Idinvest Partners makes it on to the Global PDI 50 2018 ranking

China's vibrant venture capital scene begets new opportunities for Idinvest

China's merger and acquisition market is still immature, which makes it an interesting opportunity for private equity firms like Idinvest Partners. Christophe Bavière, CEO of Idinvest, elaborated on the concept of growth potential. He said in the digital age, companies today have to think global fr ...

Idinvest invests in Munich-based TeleClinic, its private debt portfolio company

Munich, Germany-based TeleClinic has raised $7.96 million (7 million euro) in Series A funding from Idinvest Partners. The telemedicine company will use this backing to scale its offerings through new partnerships and increased marketing. The company currently has relationships with 7,000 pharmacies ...

TeleClinic raises €7m in funding from leading European investor Idinvest Partners

TeleClinic has successfully completed its series A funding and raised seven million euros from Idinvest Partners, with the aim of expanding its market leadership in telemedicine. Having raised two million euros during its initial financing last November, the German company TeleClinic is now pre ...

Idinvest Partners returns to Beijing as an official ICC 2018 sponsor

For the fourth year in a row, Idinvest Partners is holding its Beijing Tour on November 28th and 29th as an official sponsor. This year, 4 portfolio companies will benefit from 20+ tailor-made B2B meetings with qualified Chinese companies. Carré Blanc, Famoco, Forsee Power and Platform.Sh will hav ...

Idinvest wins Best French LP, Regional Strategy at the Private Equity Exchange & Awards 2018

Stilla Technologies completes a €16 Million funding round to commercialise its novel digital PCR system

Stilla Technologies, the European provider of pioneering digital PCR solutions for high precision genetic analysis, announced today the successful completion of a Series A financing round of 16 million euros ($18 Million) led by Illumina Ventures with participation from Idinvest Partners. ...

Eric Gallerne, Partner at Idinvest, expresses his views on mezzanine decline

Some market professionals believe the rise of other forms of junior capital has obscured the decline of pure mezzanine products, which have largely been usurped by unitranche and second lien instruments, according to Idinvest partner Eric Gallerne. However, Gallerne says mezzanine continues to be po ...

Idinvest Partners backs WeRide.ai, the first Chinese company in its Smart City portfolio

WeRide.ai (formerly JingChi.ai) is China's leading autonomous driving company specialised in Level 4 (L4) self-driving technology. The start-up is committed to creating autonomous driving technology for China that will profoundly change today's vision of automobile, transportation services and urban ...

Idinvest Partners sells Leosphere, one of its Smart City portfolio companies

Idinvest sells Synthesio stakes to Ipsos in a €50m transaction

Idinvest Partners, Entrepreneur Venture and BPI France have sold their stakes in Synthesio, a France-based social media monitoring and engagement company, to market research specialist Ipsos in a €50m transaction. Synthesio will be a standalone business unit at Ipsos, maintaining the name and b ...

Idinvest Partners backs MP Hygiene

Using its Novi 2 fund for the transaction, Idinvest Partners has acquired a minority stake in France-based MP Hygiene, a manufacturer and distributor of disposable hygiene products. Idinvest will support the business in its organic growth, with a projected €100m turnover by 2020.Read the full a ...

Idinvest Partners' 2018 Annual Investor Seminar

Last week, on October 10th and 11th, Idinvest Partners hosted its Annual Investor Seminar 2018 in the magnificent ballrooms of the Four Seasons George V Hotel in Paris.On this occasion, Idinvest Partners welcomed over 200 Limited Partners, about 30% of whom were foreign visitors from Asia, Europe, a ...

Famoco wins Idinvest Sustainability & Impact Award 2018

On October 11th, at the Annual Investment Seminar 2018, Idinvest had the great honour of bestowing the 2018 Idinvest Sustainability & Impact Award upon Famoco for its project dedicated to digital wallets that transform development aid in emerging markets for the United Nations.Famoco has worked ...

Idinvest's CEO Christophe Bavière explains how European SME financing should change

Idinvest Partners' chief executive Christophe Bavière explains why European SMEs deserve financing providers that match their ambitions and the need for mid-market companies to think globally if they are to thrive. He claims the growth in the number of Idinvest's services and AUM is in direct corre ...

Idinvest's Christophe Bavière speaks on venture funding in Europe

Christophe Bavière, the head of European alternative assets manager Idinvest, shared some interesting thoughts on what European start-ups need to match up to their US and European counterparts. "If the potential of European companies is not realized, it will not be because there is a lack of innova ...

Famoco's digital wallet wins Idinvest Sustainability & Impact Award 2018

Idinvest Partners, a leading investor in SMEs across Europe, today announced that Famoco, a solution provider to digitalise transactions worldwide, is the recipient of the Idinvest Sustainability & Impact Award 2018. The aim is to highlight the best initiatives of Idinvest's portfolio compa ...

Idinvest's German office is ever-present as direct lenders flock to Munich due to increase in German deal flows

German private debt is attracting a growing number of fund managers. Market sources say that deal flow through the first half of the year was at 65% of 2017's total and had surpassed the number of private debt deals executed by funds in each of the previous five years. "Germany offers a broad stream ...

Idinvest Partners Announces Three Direct Lending Deals

Idinvest Partners, a European SME investor, announced that its Private Debt team has financed three direct lending transactions. In details, these transactions include: arranging a unitranche loan to translation agency Technicis to support the company's acquisition pipeline and drive consolidation i ...

Three deals put Idinvest on course to full deployment by year's end

Idinvest Partners has made three private debt financings, bringing it closer to full investment of its fourth direct lending fund. The France-based lender said it has invested €330 million so far this year across 15 companies in continental Europe. The firm closed its fourth fund in May this ye ...

Idinvest completes three transactions as part of €330m direct lending investments

Idinvest Partners has completed three new private debt financings in Technicis, Burger King France and r2p. The latest transactions bring Idinvest's total direct lending investments amount to EUR330 million so far this year in 15 companies across continental Europe. Eric Gallerne, co-head of Private ...

Idinvest Provides Debt Funds to Technicis, Burger King France and R2P

Idinvest Partners has provided private debt financing to Technicis, Burger King France and r2p, taking its direct lending investments so far this year to €330m. Idinvest's deals include a unitranche loan to translation agency Technicis, to support its acquisition pipeline and drive consolidatio ...

Idinvest Partners completes three transactions as part of €330 million direct lending investments

Idinvest Partners, a leading investor in SMEs across Europe, today announced that its Private Debt team has financed three direct lending transactions as appetite for non-bank funding solutions continues to grow. The three new private debt financings include Technicis, Burger King France and r2 ...

BreezoMeter Closes Series B Fundraising with $7.75M USD

Real-time air quality data leader BreezoMeter charges ahead with funding and big plans for health, automotive, and myriad other industries so they can reach customers with relevant data for improved well-being.September 13, 2018 - Haifa, Israel: BreezoMeter, a global provider of hyperlocal air quali ...

Idinvest ranked in Preqin Global Top 100 Private Debt Funds

Idinvest appoints Reza Machdi-Ghazvini as IR director for Germany

Idinvest Partners has appointed former Robeco director Reza Machdi-Ghazvini as investor relations director for Germany. He will be responsible for building Idinvest's German investor base and will support fundraisings in the German market. Prior to joining Idinvest, Reza Machdi-Ghazvini worked for S ...

Idinvest announces the appointment of Reza Machdi-Ghazvini as Investment Relations Director for Germany and German-speaking Europe

Idinvest Partners, a leading investor in SMEs across Europe, announces the appointment of Reza Machdi-Ghazvini as Investor Relations Director for Germany. In this position, Reza will play a key role in further developing Idinvest Partners' client base in Germany and the German-speaking market, as we ...

Planday raises 35 million Euros in one of largest funding rounds in Danish history

The UK is a strategic growth market with investment in sales, customer support and a new London development team planned29 August 2018, London. Planday, the workforce collaboration platform, has announced today that it has closed its Round C fundraising of €35 million Euros. The lead ...

Wefox, an insurtech portfolio of Idinvest, seeks new funding

Wefox, one of Europe's fastest-growing insurance technology firms, is close to settling on a new triple-digit million euro funding round, with Softbank's Vision Fund among the suitors. Little known outside the German-speaking world, Wefox operates digital platforms that connect insurers, brokers and ...

Idinvest insurtech portfolio Wefox in talks with suitors

Wefox, one of Europe's fastest-growing insurance technology firms, is close to settling on a new "triple-digit million" euro funding round. It aims to expand the insurance industry's reach by harnessing an emerging trend to use "big data" to provide more tailored coverage of, for example, taxi or fo ...

Mobility Infrastructure Company Volta Charging Closes $35M Series C with Idinvest

Volta Charging, a San Francisco, CA based mobility infrastructure company, closed a $35m Series C funding round. The round, which brought total raised to more than US $60M since founding in 2010, was led by the Invenergy Future Fund, with participation from Activate Capital, GE Ventures, Orsted Vent ...

Idinvest's smart city portfolio Volta raised $35M with ad-supported electric vehicle charging service

As increasing numbers of electric vehicles are expected to hit the streets, charging networks like Volta Charging are raising new cash to meet the expected demand. The San Francisco-based company combines outdoor digital advertising with charging stations to give electric vehicle owners free power. ...

Volta, an Idinvest smart city portfolio company, raised $35M to fuel expansion of its electric vehicle charging network

This round of funding is Volta's largest yet. Participants in Volta's Series C round include new, as well as returning, investors from the US and Europe. GE Ventures, Orsted Venture, Nautilus Venture Partners, and Idinvest all join as new investors. Virgo Investment Group and Autotech Ventures, amon ...

Idinvest Partners provides unitranche financing to HQ Equita's acquisition of r2p GmbH and Open Access Pty Ltd

Idinvest Partners has provided unitranche financing for the acquisition of two companies by HQ Equita Beteiligungen V GmbH & Co. KG, advised by HQ Equita GmbH ("HQ Equita").HQ Equita announced the acquisition of a majority stake in German r2p GmbH, a globally active provider of IP-based system s ...

Idinvest's Spanish delivery startup portfolio Glovo raises €115 million Series C

Barcelona-based delivery startup Glovo has raised €115 million in a Series C funding round from Idinvest and AmRest. The startup is now valued at over €300 million. Glovo's app allows customers to order any item, which is then purchased and delivered by couriers in an hour or less. Through ...

Idinvest CEO Christophe Bavière comments in article LPs Bite Back

This is the second part of a two-part series on how Abraaj and other recent scandals could transform governance in private equity. Late last year, Bain Capital- and KKR-backed Toys 'R' Us announced it was filing for bankruptcy. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, an investor in the Dubai-based ...

Idinvest finances new digital portfolio company Meero in $45m funding round

Idinvest Partners and Alven Capital have led a $45m funding round for photography and video production business Meero, eight months after its Series A round. The company's algorithmic image editing services use artificial intelligence to reduce processing times from hours to seconds. Meero has plann ...

Allthings, new Idinvest digital portfolio company, raises CHF13.7m in funding round

Allthings, a Basel, Switzerland- and Berlin, Germany-based PropTech company, closed a CHF13.7M Series A funding. The round was led by Idinvest Partners as well as Earlybird and Kingstone Capital Partners, with participation from existing investors Creathor Ventures and Technologiefonds as well as cu ...

German-Swiss property-tech startup Allthings raises €11.8m to fuel its European expansion

Property tech startup Allthings has secured a funding round of €11.8 million led by Idinvest Partners, Earlybird and Kingstone Capital Partners. The company will use the funding to fuel the European expansion of its "app store for buildings." Allthings is a platform that facilitates communicati ...

Idinvest leads Meero in raising $45m for its on-demand photography service

French startup Meero has been working on a marketplace and AI-powered technology to make it easy to get good photos of products and places. Meero has been working on AI-powered algorithms so that you don't have much to do. You upload your photos, and the service will automagically take care of the e ...

PropTech company Allthings raises CHF 13.7 Million in Series A funding round

The German-Swiss PropTech company Allthings, a company which transforms buildings into digital products, closes its Series A with 13.7 Million Swiss Francs led by Earlybird and Idinvest Partners as well as Kingstone Capital Partners. With the participation of existing investors Creathor Ventures and ...

Idinvest leads $17m funding round for 21Buttons

Idinvest Partners has led a $17m series-B funding round for Barcelona-based social media fashion network 21Buttons. Existing investors Kibo Ventures, Breega, JME Venture Capital, 360 Capital Partners, Sabadell Capital, and Samaipata Ventures also participated in the round, which brings total funding ...

Sustainability & Impact: Idinvest engaged and rewarded

Social-commerce fashion app 21Buttons closes $17M Series B to launch the US market

Social-commerce fashion app 21Buttons today announces it has raised $17M Series B funding led by Idinvest Partners, the €8bn pan-European private equity and venture capital investor. The capital will mainly be invested in talent traction for tech and product profiles and user acquisition.All ex ...

Idinvest brings in Nicolas Debock to target fintech and software VC deals

Idinvest Partners has brought in former Balderton Capital and XAnge Private Equity venture capitalist Nicolas Debock as an investment director. He joins the firm's venture capital team, and will focus on sourcing, analysing and executing investments in France and the wider European market. Nicolas s ...

Idinvest appoints former Balderton principal Nicolas Debock as Investment Director

Idinvest Partners has appointed former Balderton Capital principal Nicolas Debock as an investment director in its venture capital team. He will be responsible for sourcing, analysing and executing VC investments both in France and the rest of Europe. Nicolas joins Idinvest Partners with seven years ...

Idinvest announces the appointment of Nicolas Debock as Investment Director in the Venture Capital team

Idinvest Partners, a leading investor in SMEs across Europe, today announces the appointment of Nicolas Debock as Investment Director in the Venture Capital team.In this position, Nicolas will be involved in sourcing, analysing and executing investments for the Venture Capital team, both in France a ...

OnTruck raises €25 million to scale across Europe

OnTruck, the haulage tech platform, has raised 25M€ from a group of investors to fund its expansion across Europe and consolidation of its position in the U.K. and Spain. The series B funding round was led by global venture capital fund Cathay Innovation, with participation from existing and ne ...

Idinvest Partners appoints Guillaume Santamaria as Investment Director

Idinvest Partners, an investor in SMEs across Europe, has appointed Guillaume Santamaria as Investment Director for the firm's Growth Capital team. Before joining Idinvest Partners, Santamaria originated and executed over 10 operations on both fundraising and M&A with Apparius Corporate Finance, ...

Idinvest names Guillaume Santamaria as Investment Director

Idinvest Partners has hired Guillaume Santamaria as an investment director in Idinvest's growth capital team, which held a first close on a new fund at €250m in November 2016. He will be involved in sourcing, analysing and executing investments for the growth capital team, both in France and ac ...

Idinvest boosts Growth Capital team with new hire

Guillaume Santamaria has joined Idinvest's Growth Capital team as an investment director. He will be involved in sourcing, analysing and executing investments for the firm's Growth Capital team, both in France and across Europe. Santamaria joins from Apparius Corporate Finance, an independent TMT-fo ...

Idinvest Partners announces the appointment of Guillaume Santamaria as Investment Director

Idinvest Partners, a leading investor in SMEs across Europe, today announces the appointment of Guillaume Santamaria as Investment Director for Idinvest's Growth Capital team, which held its first closing at €250 million in November 2016.In this role, Guillaume will be involved in sourcing, ana ...

Eric Gallerne talks to Private Equity News about Idinvest Private Debt IV

French firm Idinvest Partners has raised its largest-ever direct lending fund and is readying its successor as demand for credit investments continued to surge. Idinvest raised €715 million from investors for Idinvest Private Debt IV, comfortably surpassing its €600 million target, and exp ...

Idinvest holds €715m final close for Private Debt IV

Idinvest Partners has held a final close on €715m for its fourth direct lending fund, Idinvest Private Debt IV. Since launching the fundraising process in 2016, the fund surpassed its initial target of €600m. Around 60% of the fund's investors are from outside France, comprising Germany, I ...

Idinvest closes its fourth direct lending fund, at €715m

Idinvest Partners has closed its fourth direct lending fund, at €715m. Idinvest Private Debt IV surpassed its initial target of €600m, with more than 60% of the investors coming from outside France. Launched in 2016, the Idinvest Private Debt IV fund has invested 60% of its total commitmen ...

Idinvest closes its fourth direct lending fund at €715m

Idinvest Partners, a leading investor in SMEs across Europe, has today announced the final closing of its fourth direct lending Fund (Idinvest Private Debt IV), at €715m, surpassing its initial target of €600m. More than 60% of the investors are from outside France.Since its laun ...

Christophe Bavière talks to The Drawdown about Idinvest's tie-up with Eurazeo

Perhaps one of private equity's most innovative restructurings, Eurazeo's investment in fellow European private equity house Idinvest saw it acquire a 70% stake for €230m. The European players started their relationship several years ago, and the launch of Idinvest's latest growth vehicle acted ...

Guillaume Cavalin speaks to Private Funds Management about the LPA

Guillaume Cavalin has joined Paris-based Idinvest Partners as legal director from Jones Day, the third legal hire the firm had made in 18 months. pfm caught up with Cavalin to get his take on how private equity fund structuring - and LP demands - are changing.Read the full interview here: Idinvest: ...

Eric Gallerne discusses Private Debt risks with AltCredit

The flood of money into Private debt in 2017 demonstrates the strength of investor appetite and points to an optimistic outlook for this asset class in 2018. However, behind the headline grabbing figures and positive growth stories there is good reason for investors to remain careful. As is often th ...

Idinvest Partners hits first close of its third digital fund: Idinvest Digital Fund III

Idinvest Partners, a leading investor in SMEs across Europe, has announced today the first close of its third digital fund at €180 million, as the firm continues to place long-term importance on cultivating a dedicated ecosystem for European entrepreneurs by supporting and growing the next gene ...

Idinvest finalises its tie-up with Eurazeo

Eurazeo is pleased to announce the acquisition of a 70% stake in Idinvest Partners. This follows the announcement on February 5, 2018 of a final agreement between the parties in which IDI, an investment company listed on Euronext Paris, undertook to sell its entire investment in Idinvest, i.e. 51% o ...

Idinvest Private Debt team makes 7 investments in a rapid start to 2018

Benoist Grossmann is interviewed by AltAssets about Idinvest Digital Fund III

Fundraising is "much easier" than it was four years ago, claims Idinvest Managing Partner Benoist Grossmann in the wake of its Digital Fund III first close. This latest fund is set to be nearly double the size of its €154m predecessor, a sign of the times when it comes to fundraising. "Fundrais ...

1st closing of Idinvest Digital Fund III

Idinvest holds €180m first close on digital fund

Idinvest Partners has held a €180 million first close on its third digital fund, which will invest in technology companies across Europe. The fund - which is over halfway to its €300 million target - is already the largest Idinvest has raised for this strategy, surpassing the €154 mil ...

Idinvest Partners holds first close of third digital fund, at €180m

Idinvest Partners held the first close of its third digital fund, at €180m. Managed by a team of nine investors including Benoist Grossmann, Managing Partner, and Matthieu Baret, Partner, Idinvest Digital Fund III will finance European businesses with high growth potential in the following sect ...

Idinvest Partners hits first close of Idinvest Digital Fund III

Idinvest Partners, an investor in SMEs across Europe, has held the first close of its third digital fund - Idinvest Digital Fund III - at EUR180 million. The first close of the fund has exceeded that of its predecessor, Idinvest Digital Fund II, which raised EUR154 million, and the fund is targeting ...

Idinvest: Brexit is 'positively impacting' European fundraising

Limited partners are shifting their focus towards continental Europe after the Brexit referendum according to Charles Daulon du Laurens, Global Head of Investor Relations at Idinvest Partners. The firm - which is raising three private equity funds, a direct lending vehicle and an asset finance fund ...

Midaxo Raises €12.9 Million to accelerate product development and expansion

Midaxo, the Finnish developer of the award-winning cloud M&A platform, announces a €12.9m funding round led by major growth investor Idinvest Partners, with the participation of the existing investors Tesi (Finnish Industry Investment) and EOC Capital.This B round brings Midaxo's total ...

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Idinvest strengthens its ISIA team with the appointment of Damien Boulangeat as Investment Manager

Today Idinvest Partners announces the arrival of Damien Boulangeat as Investment Manager, joining the Idinvest SME Industrial Assets (ISIA) team. His recruitment serves to strengthen a management team already boosted by the recent arrival of an Investment Director. Reporting to Sylvain Makaya, ...

Idinvest & Eurazeo join forces

Idinvest appoints Jones Day's Cavalin as legal director

Idinvest Partners has appointed Guillaume Cavalin as legal director. Cavalin joins from law firm Jones Day, where he spent nearly seven years. He was a senior associate in the firm's funds practice, working on the legal and tax structuring of private equity, infrastructure and debt funds. Before joi ...

Idinvest Partners announces the appointment of Guillaume Cavalin as Legal Director

Today, Idinvest Partners announces the appointment of Guillaume Cavalin as Legal Director. He will report to Sylviane Guyonnet, Partner and COO at Idinvest Partners.In this role, Guillaume will be involved in the structuring and the fundraising of investment vehicles in France and abroad, and w ...

Idinvest Partners Appoints Guillaume Cavalin as Legal Director

Idinvest Partners has announced the appointment of Guillaume Cavalin as Legal Director. In this role, Cavalin will be involved in the structuring and the fundraising of investment vehicles in France and abroad, and will also supervise Idinvest Partners' legal topics. He will report to Sylviane Guyon ...

Idinvest appoints legal director

Idinvest Partners has appointed Guillaume Cavalin as Legal Director. He will report to Sylviane Guyonnet, Partner and COO at Idinvest Partners. Cavalin will be involved in the structuring and the fundraising of investment vehicles in France and abroad, and will also supervise Idinvest Partners' lega ...

Peakon, Idinvest digital portfolio company, raises $22m

Peakon, the London- and Copenhagen-based company that specialises in employee engagement software - an industry estimated to be worth around $1bn - has just completed a $22m Series B funding round. The round, which brings the total raised by the company to $33m, was led by Balderton Capital with par ...

Idinvest helps Peakon raise $22m for global expansion

Peakon, the London and Copenhagen based people analytics company, today announces the completion of its latest funding round of $22M. The round was led by Balderton Capital, with participation from Peakon's existing investors the EQT Ventures fund ("EQT Ventures"), Idinvest Partners, and Sunstone.S ...

France's HABX, Idinvest Smart City portfolio company, raises €10m for its digital home design solution

Digital home designing startup HABX has announced a funding round of €10 million from Idinvest, XAnge, and a number of business angels. The Bordeaux-based startup is a property tech, or proptech, company, which is a continuously growing market. Launched last year, HABX allows people to digi ...

Idinvest buys into vehicle driver aids, multimedia provider Vision Systems

Idinvest Partners has bought a 20 per cent stake in France-based vehicle multimedia, sun protection and driver assistance provider Vision Systems. The European private equity house will be replacing A Plus Finance, which had provided equity financing to Vision Systems since 2013. The company said it ...

Idinvest finances Vision Systems via its NOVI II fund

Vision Systems announces today that it is accelerating its innovation efforts as well as its international expansion plans. Vision Systems is a tier-one system supplier designing, developing and manufacturing complete and tailored solutions for the aeronautic, land transport and marine markets. Visi ...

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Idinvest Partners merges with rival Eurazeo

French private equity company Eurazeo has merged with rival Idinvest Partners to create a group with €15bn in assets and gain a hold in the venture capital sector amid an environment of "great momentum" in its home market. The two companies said on Monday that under the terms of the agreement, ...

A record breaking 2017 for Idinvest's Private Debt team

Today, Idinvest announces that 2017 has been another record-breaking year for the Private Debt division, having invested almost €900M in 45 companies. These results demonstrate the strength of Idinvest's private debt expertise and market positioning:• Idinvest Partners' Direct Lending port ...

Idinvest and Eurazeo join forces

Eurazeo and Idinvest Partners have announced the conclusion of a firm agreement that will create a private equity leader, with over €15 billion under management and serving the growth needs of companies in Europe and North America. Under the terms of this agreement, IDI, an investment company l ...

Idinvest strengthens its ISIA team with the appointment of Thierry Legeais as Investment Director

Idinvest Partners, a leading pan-European Private Equity firm, today announced the appointment of Thierry Legeais as Investment Director working within the Idinvest SME Industrial Assets (ISIA) team. Reporting to Sylvain Makaya, Partner in charge of the fund, Thierry will be involved in both sourcin ...

Idinvest Partners wins the 2018 Global Cleantech "Financial Investor of the Year" award

Idinvest Partners, a leading pan-European Private Equity firm, today announced it was named the recipient of the Global Cleantech 100 "Financial Investor of the Year" Award. The Financial Investor of the Year is awarded to the financial investor with the highest percentage of their qualifying cleant ...

Idinvest Partners, "2018 Financial Investor of the Year" by Cleantech Group

Heetch, Idinvest Smart City portfolio company, raises $20m

Heetch confirms its success and mutation. Launched in September 2013 as a pure P2P ride-sharing platform focusing only on young people trips at night, the service had to shut down in March 2017 due to a court decision. But the company came back with a ride-sharing platform available 24h/24 for all p ...

Christophe Bavière, CEO of Idinvest, talks to Unquote about tech gaining traction in French private equity

Small-cap buyouts and expansion deals fueled the growth in French deal volume during 2017, with tech startups proving increasingly popular among buyout houses. "The French market is too mature for a new wave of first-time fundraisers," says Idinvest CEO Christophe Bavière. As a result, there has be ...

Sylvain Makaya, Partner at Idinvest, discusses how Idinvest plugs into China's priorities

According to Sylvain Makaya, there has been a strong demand in China for innovative technology to stoke growth and address issues such as pollution. The PE fund sees opportunities in China's new priorities for the companies it backs financially. "Several years ago, the advice we gave to our portfoli ...

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Idinvest Partners makes it on to the Global PDI 50 2017 ranking

The gateway to China-Europe business opportunities: Idinvest SME Academy at the International Capital Conference in Beijing

For the third year in a row, Idinvest Partners participated in the International Capital Conference in Beijing, which took place on the 29th and 30th November. This year, Idinvest Partners brought five portfolio companies from its SME Academy. This annual tour provides a selection of Idinvest's port ...

Eric Gallerne, Partner at Idinvest, talks to Private Debt Investor about the ups and downs of private debt in Germany

Germany has an abundance of attractive businesses, including many in the Mittelstand. Eric Gallerne is a Partner at Idinvest Partners, a French private equity and debt investor that opened an office in Frankfurt in 2017 to exploit local opportunities. He notes the wealth of innovative business-to-bu ...

Idinvest taps Industrial Assets Fund for MBF Aluminium deal following €200m first close in September

Idinvest has made its debut deal from its €200m Industrial Assets Fund by picking up vehicle manufacturing machinery business MBF Aluminium. The firm said its €4.2m investment will allow ISIA to support MBF's growth in French and wider European markets, with the lease financing allowing it ...

Idinvest backs MBF in debut deal from industrial fund

Idinvest has backed MBF Aluminium, providing the French aluminium parts supplier with capital to upgrade its manufacturing machinery. The deal is the first from Idinvest's Industrial Assets Fund (ISIA), which is backed by the EIF and announced an initial €200m fundraise in September. ISIA has p ...

Christophe Bavière, CEO of Idinvest, talks to Reuters about direct lending and France's latest banking reform

France is introducing reforms easing restrictions on direct lenders providing debt financing to small businesses as the country continues to loosen the banks' grip on middle market lending. The latest reform is part of a long-term process to increase the financing options for SMEs. Christophe Baviè ...

Idinvest makes first asset leasing investment

Idinvest Partners has completed the first deal from its asset leasing fund by backing MBF Aluminium with a €4.2m investment. Headquartered in France, MBF Aluminium manufactures parts for cars. Under the terms of the transaction, Idinvest has acquired three pressurised injection molding machines ...

Benoist Grossmann amongst the 25 Best European VC according to Forbes

ISIA makes first equipment leasing investment to French SME

Idinvest announced today the first investment by the Idinvest Industrial Assets Fund (ISIA) to fund upgraded manufacturing machinery to MBF Aluminium (MBF), a leading French aluminium parts supplier for the automotive industry. ISIA has invested €4.2m into MBF Aluminium across a financial lease ...

Quilvest acquires Groupe EDH in SBO, with debt provided by Idinvest Partners

Quilvest Private Equity has acquired a majority stake in French higher education school network Groupe EDH from former backer Platina Partners. CEO Amin Khiari retained a stake in the business. A unitranche package was used for the transaction, with debt provided by Idinvest Partners and CM-CIC Priv ...

Idinvest invests in Seedcamp's fourth fund, which holds first close at £41m

Pan-European seed investor Seedcamp has held the first close of its fourth fund to invest in the next generation of European talent with £41 million in commitments. The fund is already over 2x larger than Seedcamp's last (€20m raised in 2014) and is backed by 60 leading corporates, venture cap ...

Idinvest digital portfolio company, iAdvize, is ranked one of Europe's 10 Most Exciting Technology SMEs for 2018, according to Forbes

iAdvize features on Forbes' list of the most exciting technology companies to watch in Europe next year. iAdvize is a French start-up which specialises in conversational commerce and connects customers needing advice with experts who are available through a real-time chat platform. It raised €3 ...

Idinvest invests in early stage Venture Capital firm Seedcamp, which holds first close of fourth fund at £41m

Seedcamp, a pan-European early stage venture capital firm, held the first close of its fourth fund, at £41M. LPs include 60 corporates, venture capitalists, fund of funds and high networths from across the world. The list includes Investec, Unilever Ventures, Idinvest Partners, Thomas Cook Money, M ...

Idinvest invests in Seedcamp's fourth fund, which holds first close at £41m

Startup accelerator Seedcamp has held a first close for its fourth fund on £41m with Idinvest Partners, Investec, Index Ventures and the British Business Bank among its LP base. The London-based venture capital firm intends to back around 100 startups across Europe with its latest investment vehicl ...

Seedcamp celebrates 10 year anniversary with £41M first close seed fund to invest in next generation of European entrepreneurs

Seedcamp, the pan-European seed investor, today announced the first close of its fourth fund to invest in the next generation of European talent. The £41M seed fund at first close is already over 2x larger than Seedcamp's last (€20M raised in 2014) and is backed by 60 leading corporates, ventu ...

François Lacoste, Partner at Idinvest, talks to Reuters about LPC-European direct lending

Discipline in the European private debt market is wavering as funds compete to offer the best terms and pricing for borrowers in an environment awash with liquidity. Few funds operating in Europe pre-date the global financial crisis and have only worked through a period of low default rates, so many ...

The UK is still a great place to start a business, according to Idinvest's UK Entrepreneurship Barometer

Despite all the turmoil surrounding Brexit, the UK is still offering new businesses great opportunities. According to the findings of an annual study launched by Idinvest Partners, where the results are used as a barometer to measure the concerns of up and coming entrepreneurial talent, 44% of the U ...

Idinvest Partners hires IR and marketing head for global push

Idinvest Partners, a Europe-focused primary, secondaries and mezzanine investor, has appointed a new global head of investor relations and marketing to help it expand beyond its French home market. According to a statement from the firm, Charles Daulon du Laurens will be in charge of capital raising ...

Idinvest Partners appoints Partner and Global Head of Investor Relations and Marketing

Idinvest Partners has appointed Charles Daulon du Laurens as Partner and Global Head of Investor Relations and Marketing. Daulon du Laurens will be in charge capital raising, investor relations and marketing functions on a global basis, managing teams based in Europe and Asia. He joins from AXA IM-R ...

Idinvest Partners appoints Charles Daulon du Laurens as Partner and Head of IR & Marketing

Idinvest Partners, a pan-European private equity firm focused on the mid-market segment, has appointed Charles Daulon du Laurens as Partner and Global Head of Investor Relations and Marketing. At Idinvest, Charles Daulon du Laurens will be in charge capital raising, investor relations and marketing ...

Idinvest Partners hires Daulon du Laurens as new IR head

French asset manager Idinvest Partners has hired Charles Daulon du Laurens, Axa Investment Managers' global head of client capital, as partner and head of investor relations and marketing. Daulon du Laurens will be responsible for the firm's fundraising in his new role. He will lead the investor rel ...

Idinvest Partners announces the appointment of Charles Daulon du Laurens as Partner

Idinvest Partners announces the appointment of Charles Daulon du Laurens as Partner and Global Head of Investor Relations and Marketing. This appointment marks the latest move in Idinvest's international growth strategy, where the firm is adding investment and operational expertise to help support i ...

Idinvest digital portfolio company, iAdvize, raises $38m for its customer engagement platform

French startup iAdvize raised another $37.6 million (€32 million) from Idinvest, Bpifrance and Quadrille Capital. The company wants to convert casual website visitors into clients. Thanks to iAdvize, companies can track what you're doing and engage with you to convince you that you should open ...

Idinvest digital portfolio company, iAdvize, raises $38m in Series C Funding

iAdvize, a Nantes, France-based conversational marketing company, raised $38M in Series C funding. Backers included Idinvest Partners, Bpifrance via Large Venture and Quadrille Capital. The company, which has raised $56M in total funding to date, intends to use the funds to consolidate growth while ...

Idinvest digital portfolio company, iAdvize, raises €32m

iAdvize, a specialist in conversational marketing, has secured €32m of series C funding with participation from Idinvest Partners, Bpifrance via Large Venture, a fund dedicated to innovating and hyper-growth companies, and Quadrille Capital. Founded in 2010 by Julien Hervouët, iAdvize is now t ...

Idinvest digital portfolio company, iAdvize, raises $38m in Series C to strengthen presence in global market

iAdvize, the European leader in conversational marketing, announces a $38M Series C round with participation from Idinvest Partners, Bpifrance via Large Venture and Quadrille Capital. Total funding to date is $56M. Additionally, they are opening their first U.S. office in Boston, MA where the team w ...

Souscritoo becomes Papernest and raises €10m to fuel its international expansion

Souscritoo, the digital platform built to simplify paperwork, rebrands to become Papernest . After having made life easier for thousands of home movers in France, Papernest is poised for international expansion in 2018 , alongside the diversification of its offer for a fully digital paperwork manage ...

Secret Escapes raises $111m investment to drive global acquisitions

Secret Escapes, the London-based international online marketplace for affordable luxury travel deals, has today announced that it has closed a $111m (£83m) Series D investment and debt facility. This significant equity round was led by Singapore-headquartered Temasek, with participation from existi ...

Christophe Bavière, CEO of Idinvest, expresses his views on the risk of London losing out to European start-up rivals

Much depends on Brexit for London's businesses. Data shows that London was Europe's largest tech hub in 2016, in terms of numbers of start-ups and the amount invested over the previous five years as well as in numbers of start-up employees. But it could lose that crown to other EU capitals: Paris an ...

LumApps raises $8m to fund global expansion

LumApps - the only enterprise portal fully integrated with Google's G Suite - has completed an $8m Series A funding round that will allow it to continue the rapid global expansion of its service. With Idinvest Partners leading the round, the investment will allow Paris-based LumApps to grow its exis ...

Idinvest digital portfolio company, LumApps, raises $8m to internationalise

France's LumApps, an intranet for business content, has announced a funding round of $8 million. The Series A round was led by Idinvest Partners. LumApps is an intranet solution that brings together all content in an enterprise and is integrated with Google's G Suite. The new funding round will be u ...

Idinvest health portfolio company, Cardiologs Technologies, raises $6.4m in Series A Funding

Cardiologs Technologies, a Paris, France-based artificial intelligence driven platform to manage cardiac patients, raised $6.4m in Series A funding. Backers included Idinvest, ISAI, Kurma Partners, Partech Ventures and Bpifrance. The company, which has raised $10m in total funding, intends to use th ...

Secret Escapes, one of Idinvest's digital portfolio companies, raises $111m in Series D funding

Secret Escapes, a London, UK-based luxury hotel flash deals site, raised $111m in Series D equity and debt funding. The round was led by Singapore-headquartered Temasek with participation from existing investor Idinvest Partners while Silicon Valley Bank provided the debt facility. The company, whic ...

Idinvest portfolio company, FeetMe, raises $2.3m for smart, connected insoles

Paris-based FeetMe, which is creating smart, connected insoles, raised $2.28 million (1.95 million euro) in seed funding. The round was led by Kurma Diagnostics. Other investments came from the Paris Saclay seed fund, Idinvest Partners, Seventure, and SOSV. "This seed round will help us pursue the d ...

Idinvest digital portfolio company, Secret Escapes, racks up $111m

Secret Escapes, the London-based international online marketplace for affordable luxury travel deals, has today announced that it has closed a $111m (£83m) Series D investment and debt facility. This significant equity round was led by Singapore-headquartered Temasek, with participation from existi ...

Idinvest digital portfolio company, Secret Escapes, handed keys for further expansion with $111m funding

London-based travel startup Secret Escapes has raised $111m (£83m) in its latest funding round. Guillaume Durao, of Idinvest Partners said: "A clear leader in the travel flash sales industry, Secret Escapes has proved to be the preferred and trusted partner of thousands of hotels owners in Europe a ...

Idinvest receives 2 awards at the Investor Allstars

Idinvest to back SME equipment upgrades with €300m fund

French mid-market private equity house Idinvest Partners will help finance equipment upgrades at European SMEs through a new EU-backed fund. Idinvest SME Industrial Assets (ISIA) has already secured €150m of an initial target of €300m. The vehicle comes with a €450m hard-cap. The fund ...

Idinvest launches €300m asset leasing fund

Idinvest Partners has launched a new €300m fund dedicated to asset leasing. Idinvest SME Industrial Assets (ISIA) will provide European companies with funding for the acquisition of production tools. It will offer an average of €5m per deal for a duration of five to seven years, focusing o ...

Idinvest sells Cyber Group Studios

Christophe Bavière, CEO of Idinvest, discusses new asset finance fund to help SMEs tool up

Paris-based alternative investment firm Idinvest Partners is seeking up to €400 million to help small companies buy industrial equipment, according to Managing Partner Christophe Bavière. Idinvest would use the proceeds to lease advanced machinery to fast-growing businesses in Europe, Mr. Bavi ...

Idinvest Partners launches €300m fund to modernise production tools for European SMEs

Private equity firm Idinvest Partners has launched a large-scale fund to finance the modernization of production tools for European SMEs, to increase their competitiveness and productivity in both local and international markets. Idinvest SME Industrial Assets fund (ISIA Fund) is targeting a €3 ...

Idinvest launches new vehicle to finance industrial assets

Idinvest Partners has raised €150m towards a new vehicle, Idinvest SME Industrial Assets (ISIA), which will aim to help companies modernise their production equipment. Idinvest is aiming to raise €300m in total for ISIA. The firm stated it launched the fund because SMEs are struggling to g ...

Idinvest eyes asset finance fund to help SMEs tool up

Paris-based alternative investment firm Idinvest Partners is seeking up to €400 million to help small companies buy industrial equipment, according to managing partner Christophe Bavière. Idinvest would use the proceeds to lease advanced machinery to fast-growing businesses in Europe, Mr. Bavi ...

Idinvest Partners launches Industrial Assets Fund (ISIA) to finance and accelerate the modernisation of equipment for European SMEs

Idinvest Partners, the specialist European SME investor, announces today the launch of the ISIA Fund (Idinvest SME Industrial Assets), the first large-scale fund intended to finance the modernization of production tools for European SMEs, to help increase their competitiveness and productivity in bo ...

Onfido raises $30m for identity verification that helps millions of people access online services

Identity verification provider Onfido today announces $30M in funding, led by Crane Venture Partners with support from MicrosoftVentures, Salesforce Ventures and other current investors, including Idinvest Partners. The funding follows a Series B round of $25M in April 2016, allowing the company to ...

Idinvest portfolio company, Onfido, raises $30m more for its AI-based identity verification technology

Onfido, a company that has built a way to help websites verify people's identities using a photo-based identity document, a selfie and artificial intelligence algorithms, has raised $30 million. This brings the total raised by Onfido, which is based out of London, to around $60 million. This latest ...

FeetMe, Idinvest healthcare portfolio company, announces the closing of a seed round

FeetMe, a medical device company that produces smart and connected insoles for improved running, walking and gait analysis, today announced it has raised € 1.95 million in seed funding. The investment round was led by Kurma Diagnostics, with additional investment from the new Paris Saclay seed ...

Promoting Innovative and Inclusive Finance along the Belt & Road at Boao Forum for Asia Paris Meeting

On September 14th and 15th, the Boao Forum for Asia held an exceptional meeting in Paris to discuss the Belt & Road Initiative and how to build synergies with EU policies and strategies. Co-organized by Foundation Prospective & Innovation, this 2-day event brought together government officia ...

Idinvest portfolio company, DNA Script, raises €11m in Series A Financing

DNA Script, a Paris, France-based Synthetic DNA manufacturer, raised €11m ($13m) in Series A funding. The round was led by Illumina Ventures, with participation from Merck Ventures BV, the corporate venture arm of Merck KGaA, and existing investors Sofinnova Partners, Kurma Partners, and Idinve ...

Idinvest portfolio company, Frichti, raises $33.7m for its meal delivery service

French food startup Frichti announced that it has raised $33.7 million (€30 million). Frichti is currently available in Paris and nearby cities, and is now the most-funded food startup in France. It handles everything in-house from cooking to orders and deliveries. Verlinvest and Felix Capital ...

Idinvest Partners supports French Tech Tour China and its French Startups to accelerate their business potential in China

On September 7th, Business France and BPI France, the French sovereign fund, unveiled the name of 12 French innovative startups selected for the 5th edition of French Tech Tour China. From December 4th to December 15th 2017, this selective program will give laureates the opportunity to immerse thems ...

Cyber Group Studios and L-GAM announce a financial partnership to further international growth

Cyber Group Studios and L-GAM are pleased to jointly announce a partnership to fuel the company's growth and help finance new opportunities. Founded in 2005, Cyber Group Studios is a producer and a distributor of international animated series targeted at TV and digital media platforms. The company h ...

Christophe Bavière, CEO of Idinvest, discusses the motivation behind Idinvest's international expansion

Idinvest expanded into the German and Chinese markets simultaneously earlier this year. "The two situations are completely different for us," he said. "Europe is our homeland: our investment universe is the entire European market." The logic of expanding portfolio companies into the international ma ...

Eric Gallerne, Partner at Idinvest, talks to Private Debt Investor about "passive" vs. "aggressive" deals

"Aggressive" deals aren't an issue if managers do their homework and participate in a part of the market which lends itself to higher-yielding terms, says Eric Gallerne, Partner at Idinvest. The lower end of the mid-market isn't as competitive. At the higher end of the market, where larger corporate ...

Idinvest portfolio company, Onfido, named 'Startup of the Week' by The Innovator

Onfido uses machine learning to verify people's identities, helping the unbanked to open accounts and migrants to get jobs. "Our company mission is to build a trust engine for the digital age", co-founder and CEO Husayn Kassai stated. Onfido has raised over $30 million in funding from investors incl ...

Idinvest portfolio company, FinanceFox, closes $28m Series A funding round

FinanceFox, which is announcing $28 million in Series A funding today, is one of a number of European insurtech startups who are attempting to bring insurance into the digital age. Target Global, and Horizons Ventures led FinanceFox's Series A funding. Existing investors Salesforce Ventures, Idinves ...

Idinvest portfolio company, Onfido, announced as one of the "Technology Pioneers" by the World Economic Forum

London based Onfido, was recently announced as one of the "Technology Pioneers". They help verify people's identities digitally. Founded by three entrepreneurs from Oxford University, Onfido uses AI to perform background checks and spot frauds. They validate a user's identity by comparing biometrics ...

Idinvest portfolio company, Botify, names Frank Vitovich Head of US Customer Success

Botify, the premiere technical SEO platform for enterprise companies, named Frank Vitovich Head of US Customer Success, where he will be responsible for helping customers extract the maximum value out of their partnership with Botify and deliver impact to their organisations. Hiring top talent is th ...

Idinvest continues its fundraising tear with Digital Fund launch

European private-equity firm Idinvest Partners is in talks with investors about raising a €250 million fund to invest in digital and technology businesses across Europe. Idinvest's managing partner, Benoist Grossmann, stated that if it hits its target it will be over 40% larger than its predece ...

Idinvest portfolio company, Kantox, raises £4.6m from investors as it targets profitability

Foreign exchange fintech company Kantox has raised £4.6 million from its existing investors as it aims for profitability. CEO and founder Philippe Gelis stated that the company raised the money from existing investors Partech Ventures, Idinvest Partners, and Mundi Ventures. Gelis added, "We have gr ...

Idinvest's portfolio company, Ogury, sees tremendous revenue growth in the US in the first half of 2017

Ogury, the mobile data platform that provides the most comprehensive view of mobile user behavior globally, announced today that it achieved revenue growth in the US for the first half of 2017 of over 500%. This growth follows $15 million in a Series B funding round from Idinvest, Ventech, CoVent Pa ...

Idinvest provides debt finance to support Omnes Capital deal

Omnes Capital has acquired French housebuilder InCa from LBO France. GSO Capital and Bpifrance Investissement also invested in the deal. Operating in the Nouvelle Aquitaine region in the south-west of France, InCa constructs built-to-order detached houses across a wide price range. InCa sold around ...

Idinvest Partners expects to complete a €250m fundraising in the coming weeks

French VCs Idinvest Partners and Petrarch Ventures' latest investments and fundraisings demonstrate the UK's potential to remain a major financial hub post-Brexit. Uncertainty surrounding Brexit hasn't stopped European startups and their investors from raising money in recent weeks. Idinvest Partner ...

Idinvest's Fundraising Shows Startup Cash is Pouring into Paris

Two of France's bigger venture-capitalists, Idinvest Partners and Partech Ventures, are closing funds this month, adding to recent examples of investors pouring money into European startup investments. Idinvest Partners expects to close a 250 million euro fundraising in the coming weeks, including f ...

Idinvest Partners launches SME Academy

French private equity firm Idinvest Partners has launched its SME Academy, an initiative to help foster European innovation and encourage collaboration and international expansion amongst its portfolio companies. The permanent program to help its portfolio companies both understand and navigate an i ...

Idinvest receives the "ESG Best Practices Honours 2017" award

Belt & Road Summit 2017

Idinvest Partners invests €12m in M2i

Idinvest Partners has secured EUR12 million in funding for life sciences company M2i as part of the firm's continued support of high-growth European SMEs. The funds raised will enable biocontrol producer M2i to finance the approval process of its Biocontrol products, pursue its R&D investment st ...

Life Sciences company M2i receives €12m in funding from Idinvest Partners

Idinvest Partners today announced €12 million in funding for life sciences company M2i as part of the firm's continued support of high-growth European SMEs. The funds raised will enable biocontrol producer M2i to finance the approval process of its Biocontrol products, pursue its R&D invest ...

Idinvest Partners launches the Idinvest SME Academy, to kick-start international growth for innovative enterprises

Idinvest Partners announces today the launch of its SME Academy as an initiative to help foster European innovation and encourage collaboration and international expansion amongst its portfolio companies. Aiming to provide small and medium-sized European companies with the means to become global ent ...

Idinvest Partners launches the SME Academy

Benoist Grossmann discusses the future of French Fintech with Forbes

Idinvest Partners opens the door of exclusive CIC Forum to its portfolio companies

On June 6th, the sovereign wealth fund China Investment Corporation held its Belt and Road and Cross-Border Investment CEO Summit. This exclusive annual event brings together government officials and policy makers, the world's top sector experts and prominent business investors. Co-organised by lead ...

Idinvest portfolio company Stanley Robotics raises €3.6m

French start-up company, Stanley Robotics, has raised 3.6 million euros ($4 million) to advance the development of its signature automated valet service. The Paris-based start-up firm has created giant robots, named Stan, to pick up your vehicle and securely park your car without any assistance. The ...

Idinvest portfolio company Stanley Robotics raises €3.6m to expand internationally with its robotic parking solution

French robotics startup Stanley Robotics has raised €3.6 million from Elaia Partners, Idinvest Partners and Bpifrance's Ville de Demain investment fund.The company has developed an autonomous robotic parking valet, dubbed Stan, that collects a car and carries it to its parking location. It has ...

Christophe Bavière, CEO of Idinvest, signed a strategic cooperation agreement with China Orient Asset Management

Christophe Bavière, CEO of Idinvest Partners, a French private equity firm, has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with China Orient Asset Management Co., with Jean-Pierre Raffarin witnessing the signing ceremony. Bavière told Yicai Global that Macron is France's youngest-ever president. "Be ...

Idinvest Partners announces the appointment of Caroline Steil as Senior Legal Advisor

Idinvest Partners, the mid-market alternative assets investor, has hired Caroline Steil as senior legal adviser. Caroline was previously with law firm Jones Day, where she worked in the fund formation team as a senior associate. She also did a six-month work assignment with the French financial mark ...

Idinvest Partners signs strategic cooperation agreement with China Orient Asset Management International in presence of former Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin

Idinvest Partners and China Orient Asset Management (International) signed a strategic cooperation agreement to support the growth of European small & medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and further increase Sino-European cooperation. Under the agreement, both parties will carry out a comprehensive ...

Idinvest Partners promotes Sino-European integration at Belt & Road Forum

At the Belt & Road Forum for International Cooperation held in Beijing on May 14th and 15th, Idinvest Partners participated in the French delegation led by Senator Jean-Pierre Raffarin. Under President Xi Jinping's impetus, this forum brought together representatives of more than 47 countries, i ...

Idinvest's portfolio company, Neurala, brings more humanity to computing with its Neurala Brain

Deep learning company Neurala thinks it can bring in yet more humanity to computing with its Neurala Brain, a deep learning neural networks platform. The software itself claims to enable AI to function more like a human brain because it integrates multiple brain areas. According to the firm, "Human ...

Christophe Bavière, Idinvest's CEO, published an article on 'How French President Macron may help Europe challenge Silicon Valley's global tech dominance'

On 7 May, Emmanuel Macron claimed a decisive victory over Marine Le Pen in the French presidential election. This news provides welcome relief for globalists and fellow EU supporters in a political landscape which until now has been dominated by rising populism and profound uncertainty. For entrepre ...

Idinvest's portfolio company, OnTruck, raises $10m

OnTruck, a Madrid-based startup that has built an "on-demand logistics platform" to connect businesses directly with road freight carriers, has raised $10 million in Series A funding. The round was led by VCs Atomico and Idinvest, with participation from existing backers Point Nine Capital, La Famig ...

OnTruck raises $10m in a Series A round led by Idinvest Partners

Spanish startup OnTruck has raised $10 million (£7.7 million) in a Series A round led by Atomico and Idinvest for a freight delivery platform. OnTruck is an on-demand platform that pairs businesses with freight carriers to ship their goods. The idea is to undercut intermediaries which, according to ...

Idinvest portfolio company Neurala solves AI 'catastrophic forgetting' problem with new deep learning system

One of the current constraints of artificial intelligence is called "catastrophic forgetting", and researchers have been struggling with it for a while. According to sources from the company, Neurala's breakthrough solves the 'catastrophic forgetting' problem for deep learning neural networks i ...

Idinvest Partners announces the appointment of Caroline Steil as Senior Legal Advisor

Today, Idinvest Partners is pleased to announce the appointment of Caroline Steil as a Senior Legal Advisor. Caroline Steil advises clients on the incorporation, approval, and monitoring of management companies as well as investment service providers in connection with their activities and their rel ...

Idinvest's Venture Capital fund ranked one of the most prominent in Europe in 2017

Business Insider has ranked the 22 most prominent venture capital investors operating in Europe in 2017. So from Benchmark to Balderton Capital, here are the highest-profile VC firms in Europe today on the hunt for the next Spotify or Skype.European investment firm Idinvest Partners has offices dott ...

Idinvest's Venture Capital fund ranked one of the most prominent in Europe in 2017

Business Insider has ranked the 22 most prominent venture capital investors operating in Europe in 2017. Number 16 on the list, Idinvest has offices dotted around the continent, including Paris, Frankfurt, and Madrid - as well as further afield, in Shanghai and Dubai. Its portfolio includes Happn, O ...

Idinvest is supporting the acquisition of frostkrone Gruppe

Idinvest portfolio company DAMAE Medical raises €2m to develop its lead product for non-invasive, in-depth imaging and characterization of the skin

DAMAE Medical, a leading French medtech company, announces the closing of a €2 million investment round with Kurma Partners, Idinvest Partners, News Invest, Paris-Saclay Seed Fund co-managed by Partech Ventures, and private investors. DAMAE Medical was founded in September 2014 to revoluti ...

Idinvest's portfolio company, Actility, raises $75m

Actility, a French AI communication platform, raised $75 million in Series D funding. Investors include Creadev, Bosch, Inmarsat, Idinvest, Bpifrance, Ginko Ventures, KPN, Orange Digital Ventures, Swisscom, and Foxconn.

Idinvest's portfolio company, Actility, raises $75m

Actility, a provider of low power wide area networks for the internet of things, has closed its Series D funding round at $75 million. Actility's investors include Creadev, Bosch, Inmarsat, Idinvest, Bpifrance, Ginko Ventures, KPN, Orange Digital Ventures and Foxconn. "We believe that Actility conti ...

Idinvest's portfolio company, Actility, raises $75m

Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) provider Actility has raised USD 75 million in a Series D funding round which saw the participation of several existing investors (Idinvest, Bpifrance, Ginko Ventures, KPN, Orange Digital Ventures, Swisscom and Foxconn), alongside new investors including Creadev, ...

Idinvest's portfolio company, Actility, energised by $75m funding round to accelerate industrial IoT solutions globally

Actility, the industry leader in Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN) for the internet of Things (IoT), today announced that it has successfully completed its Series D funding round, raising $75M to enhance its portfolio of IoT solutions. The company's expansion will focus on enabling industrial IoT ...

Is the 21st century 'Asian Century' for innovation? Read Idinvest's article by Sophie Beric

With about two-thirds of the world population and led by the world's second largest economy, Asia is at the core of global economy growth and might well transform the 21st century into 'Asian Century'. Under one condition though: that Asia takes the lead in innovation. Asia has seen a boom in econom ...

The BOAO Forum for Asia 2017 annual conference lowered its curtain on the 26th of March in Hainan: Arnaud Leurent, Venture Partner, represented Idinvest Partners at the forum

As the Secretary-General of the China Economic and Cultural Exchange Association, Mr. Wu Zhong, said, the 'Belt and Road' is the Chinese version of the idea of "globalization" which is significant for both China and Europe. The Belt and Road opens a wide array of opportunities for increased cross-bo ...

Idinvest Partners presents the Executive Summary from its new digital study

Over the last couple of years, we have witnessed the emergence of a new form of innovation that no longer takes place within large corporates, even the market leaders. More disruptive and game-changing, these innovative models grow outside the traditional environment of corporate R&D departments ...

Idinvest Partners has collected over €400m for its fourth Private Debt fund

Idinvest Partners has passed the halfway mark on raising its fourth private debt fund, which is targeting between €600m and €700m. The Idinvest Private Debt IV fund has received commitments in excess of €400m, Real Deals understands, and is expected to close at the end of 2017. Idinve ...

Idinvest's 3rd Secondary Fund expected to reach above target

Paris based private equity firm Idinvest is expected to close its third secondaries fund imminently, above the upper end of its target of between €350 million and €400 million, the firm's Chief Executive Officer and Managing Partner Christophe Bavière told Private Equity News. The oversub ...

Idinvest Partners invests $1.2m in TrustInSoft

Idinvest Partners has made a USD1.2 million investment in TrustInSoft, a spin-off from the CEA (French Atomic Energy Commission) that has developed a novel technology capable of mathematically demonstrating the safety and security of software code. The company, which was ranked among the top 10 most ...

TrustInSoft raises $1.2m from Idinvest Partners

TrustInSoft raises $1.2M from Idinvest Partners to change the rules in software development and automate code vulnerability detection at a wide scale.TrustInSoft is the first company to offer developers a guarantee on the quality of their code, a significant breakthrough for the software industry. A ...

Idinvest Partners supports CASH undertaking to develop the global growth of innovative European SMEs

Idinvest Partners and Chinese Academy of Sciences Holdings (CASH) have agreed to support the growth of European small & medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with the signature of a memorandum of understanding (MoU), during the RAID event of March 14th 2017 held in Beaubourg museum in Paris. To do so, ...

Idinvest sells SantéVet from its Private Debt portfolio

Idinvest Partners opens new office in Shanghai

French SME sector focused private equity firm Idinvest Partners has opened a new Shanghai office in a bid to support the internationalisation of its portfolio companies or rather expansion in the Asian markets. In an announcement last week, Paris-based Idinvest said that the office will be led by So ...

Idinvest finances Wer Liefert Was

Idinvest Partners opens new Shanghai office to support the internationalisation of its portfolio companies

Idinvest Partners, the specialist European SME investor, has established a Shanghai office to support the growth of its portfolio companies in Asian markets. The office will be led by Solomon Moos, Corporate Development Asia, who joined Idinvest in July 2016 from Allianz Global Investors. Solomon wi ...

Idinvest Partners launches annual study into the UK's attitudes towards entrepreneurship

Conducted by private equity firm Idinvest Partners, which is a major investor in small- and medium-sized enterprises and currently manages around €7bn worth of assets, the survey shows that over half of those questioned are keen to start their own business and 16 per cent say that they already ...

Idinvest's UK Entrepreneurship Barometer shows 44% of population says UK best country to start a business

Idinvest Partners launches an annual study into the UK's attitudes towards entrepreneurship

An annual study launched today by Idinvest Partners,explored the UK's attitudes towards entrepreneurship. Despite concerns that Brexit might diminish the UK's position as one of Europe's leading business hubs, 44 per cent of the UK population still considers it the best country to start a business, ...

Idinvest Partners launches an annual study into the UK's attitudes towards entrepreneurship

Idinvest's UK Entrepreneurship Barometer measures the concerns of the next generation of entrepreneurial talent and therefore addresses the health of the UK's innovation ecosystem. In its first year, the barometer poses questions about Brexit consequences, personal motivations, fundraising challenge ...

Idinvest Partners launches an annual study into the UK's attitudes towards entrepreneurship

Conducted by private equity firm Idinvest Partners, which is a major investor in small- and medium-sized enterprises and currently manages around €7bn worth of assets, the survey shows that over half of those questioned are keen to start their own business and 16 per cent say that they already ...

Sigfox, one of Idinvest's digital portfolio companies, raised the largest amount of funds in France in 2016. And Idinvest ranked #3 in the amount of VC & Growth Capital funds raised

Idinvest's UK Entrepreneurship Barometer shows 44% of population says UK best country to start a business

Idinvest Partners today launched an annual study into the UK's attitudes towards entrepreneurship. Idinvest's UK Entrepreneurship Barometer measures the concerns of the next generation of entrepreneurial talent and therefore addresses the health of the UK's innovation ecosystem. In its first year, t ...

Famoco raises €11m of funding to boost its international growth

Famoco, leader of Android-based transactional devices, today announced a €11m round of financing led by Idinvest Partners, together with Orange Digital Ventures, SNCF Digital Ventures, BNP Paribas Développement and alongside their historical investors Hi inov, Fonds Ambition Numérique managed ...

Idinvest's Direct Lending fund announces an IRR of 16%

Idinvest Partners opens new Frankfurt office

Paris-based venture capital firm Idinvest Partners has opened a new office in Frankfurt, aiming to increase its European presence. The opening is a result of the GP's wish to offer dedicated local support to its foreign portfolio companies, Idinvest said in a statement. The launch comes hand-in-hand ...

Idinvest Partners opens new Frankfurt office

Parisian private equity firm Idinvest Partners is expanding its private debt origination network across Europe as it prepares to close two debt funds that are targeting a combined €1.2 billion. On Thursday, the firm announced that it had opened a new office in Frankfurt to expand its originatio ...

Idinvest Partners opens new Frankfurt office

Idinvest Partners has opened a new office in Frankfurt and added three German nationals to its private debt team. The new Frankfurt office will be represented by Florian Zimmerman, who has been working with Idinvest since 2014. Christophe Bavière, president of Idinvest Partners, says: "Brexit has a ...

Idinvest Partners opens new Frankfurt office

French private equity boutique Idinvest Partners has opened an office in Frankfurt. The firm, which is a former subsidiary of Allianz Group, already supports German companies through private debt financing, whether senior or subordinate. Among others, Idinvest has financed Stanz und Laser Technik Je ...

Idinvest Partners opens new Frankfurt office

Paris-based venture capital firm Idinvest Partners has opened a new office in Frankfurt, aiming to increase its European presence. The opening is a result of the GP's wish to offer dedicated local support to its foreign portfolio companies, Idinvest said in a statement. The launch comes hand-in-hand ...

Idinvest Partners boosts German presence with Frankfurt office

French mid-market private equity firm Idinvest has boosted its presence in the German market by opening a Frankfurt office. Idinvest already holds a number of German companies in its portfolio. It has also provided German businesses with private debt financing, a sector that is seeing signs of growt ...

Idinvest Partners expands European presence with Frankfurt office opening

Idinvest Partners, a leader in financing the growth of European SME's, has announced the opening of a new office in Frankfurt along with new additions to its team. This new office highlights Idinvest's resolve to develop further internationally and offer dedicated in-country support to assist the gr ...

Idinvest Partners recruits Alban Wyniecki as Investment Director

Idinvest Partners has appointed Alban Wyniecki to the position of investment director the Growth fund, the firm has announced on its website. Wyniecki, who joined the firm in November 2016, previously worked for two years at Partech Ventures, where he was responsible for several investments in Europ ...

Idinvest Partners recruits Alban Wyniecki as Investment Director

Wyniecki will provide strategic direction and oversight of Idinvest's Growth Capital Fund II, which recently held its first close at €250 million, the company said in a statement. He joined the firm in November 2016. We are very much looking forward to Alban joining the Growth team here at Idin ...

Idinvest Partners recruits Alban Wyniecki as Investment Director

Idinvest has appointed Partech Ventures's Alban Wyniecki as investment director with responsibility for overseeing the investment of its new growth fund. Idinvest reached a first close of the fund, its second, at €250m in November. Wyniecki spent two years at Partech, most recently as principal ...

Idinvest hires former Partech principal Alban Wyniecki as Investment Director

Pan-European private equity firm Idinvest Partners has expanded its investment team with the hire of Alban Wyniecki. Wyniecki, previously a principal at global venture capital firm Partech Ventures, has joined Idinvest as an investment director. In his new position, he will provide strategic directi ...

Idinvest Partners recruits Alban Wyniecki as Investment Director

Paris-based securities brokerage Idinvest Partners SA named Alban Wyniecki as an investment director. Prior to joining Idinvest in November 2016, Wyniecki worked at Partech Ventures where he sourced and executed investments in Europe and the United States.

Idinvest Partners announces the appointment of Alban Wyniecki as Investment Director

Idinvest Partners is pleased to announce the appointment of Alban Wyniecki as an Investment Director. Alban will provide strategic direction and oversight of Idinvest's Growth Capital Fund II, which recently held its first close at €250 M. The fund's first investment this year was in Vestiaire ...

Idinvest Partners sells Social Point, one of its digital portfolio companies

Idinvest sells Social Point, a digital portfolio company, to Take-Two Interactive

Idinvest Partners announces the sale of Social Point to Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. for $310 million. This outstanding transaction allows Idinvest to make a multiple of 10x and an IRR of more than 60%. Benoist Grossmann, Managing Partner of Idinvest, said: "The growth of the company Social P ...

Idinvest digital portfolio company, Vestiaire Collective, secures a €58m funding round

Idinvest digital portfolio company, Vestiaire Collective, secures a €58m funding

Vestiaire Collective, the European leader in luxury and premium pre-owned fashion today announced the completion of a €58 million round of financing to fuel continued international growth and increase operational capabilities. The round was led by new investor Vitruvian Partners as part of Vitr ...

Idinvest's portfolio company, Neurala, an AI startup with ties to NASA, lands $14m in funding

The research activities that NASA's Curiosity rover conducts on Mars are directed from its Jet Propulsion Lab in California, but many navigational decisions are instead relegated to an artificial intelligence that the space agency brought online in 2013. The space agency's efforts to make its rovers ...

Idinvest's portfolio company, Neurala, closes $14m Series A funding round

AI software company Neurala closed a USD 14 million series A funding round that was led by Pelion Venture Partners. Other investors joined Pelion, including Sherpa Capital, Motorola Solutions Venture Capital, 360 Capital Partners, Draper Associates Investments, SK Ventures, and Idinvest Partners thr ...

Idinvest's portfolio company, Neurala, raises $14m to expand market for NASA-tested AI into drones and cars

Neurala has raised $14 million in a series A round led by Pelion Venture Partners, bringing the total amount raised by the company to $16 million. Additional Series A investors include Sherpa Capital, Motorola Ventures, 360 Capital Partners, Draper Associates Investments, and Idinvest Partners. Neur ...

Kurma Partners, Idinvest's investment manager in the health sector, is experimenting with a new investment model

The idea is to syndicate with industry partners from the get-go, bringing them in at a pre-seed stage, prior to forming the company, to provide expertise that matches the newco's technology. Moreover, it should allow Kurma to compete for seed or series A stage assets with the bigger players. Accordi ...

Idinvest's portfolio company, Neurala, closes $14m Series A funding round

Neurala, developer of a deep learning neural networks platform, has raised $14 million in Series A funding. Pelion Venture Partners led the round, and was joined by Pelion Venture Partners, with participation from Sherpa Capital, Motorola Solutions Venture Capital, 360 Capital Partners, Draper Assoc ...

Idinvest's portfolio company, Neurala, closes $14m Series A funding round

Software company Neurala has closed a USD14 million series A funding round led by Pelion Ventures. The funding round included participation from Sherpa Capital, Motorola Ventures, 360 Capital Partners, Draper Associates Investments, and Idinvest Partners through its Electranova Capital II Fund and i ...

Idinvest's portfolio company, Neurala, closes $14m Series A to bring machine learning to the edge

Neurala, the Boston-based company that's developed The Neurala Brain, announced it has closed $14 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Pelion Ventures, with participation from Sherpa Capital, Motorola Ventures, SK Ventures, Idinvest Partners, as well as previous investors 360 Capital Pa ...

Idinvest's portfolio company, Neurala, closes $14m Series A to bring machine learning to the edge

The company, based in Boston Massachusetts, uses what it calls a 'Neural Brain' which enables smart products, including toys, drones, autonomous vehicles and cameras, the ability to learn, adapt and interact with their environment in real time. The new round of funding was led by Pelion Ventures wit ...

Idinvest's portfolio company, Neurala, closes $14m Series A to bring machine learning to the edge

Artificial intelligence is swiftly becoming a commodity thanks to the rise of AI-as-a-Service offerings from Amazon and IBM. Today, Neurala is joining this list thanks to a $14 million Series A led by Pelion Ventures. The team is looking to put AI in the hands of toy makers, drone enthusiasts and Io ...

Idinvest's portfolio company, Neurala, closes $14m Series A to bring machine learning to the edge

Boston-based Neurala, which makes artificially intelligent visual systems, has raised $14 million in a Series A round of funding as it turns the corner from a startup focused on developing cutting-edge technology to one focused on expanding its market presence. Early-stage venture capital firm Pelio ...

Idinvest's portfolio company, Neurala, closes $14m Series A to bring machine learning to the edge

A Boston startup focused on artificial intelligence has raised $14 million from investors to develop software used with drones, self-driving cars, and other machines. Neurala Inc. makes software that lets machines equipped with cameras interpret images and recognize objects, partially automating tas ...

Idinvest's portfolio company, Neurala, closes $14m Series A funding round

Artificial intelligence software firm Neurala cut its teeth developing technology for government entities, including working on advanced navigation software for NASA's planetary exploration robots. Investors are bullish on Neurala's prospects. The Boston-based company recently closed a $14 million S ...

Idinvest's portfolio company, Neurala, raises $14m in funding

Boston-based deep learning company Neurala, creators of The Neurala Brain, has closed on a $14 million series A funding round. The round was led by Pelion Ventures, with participation from Sherpa Capital, Motorola Ventures, 360 Capital Partners, Draper Associates Investments, SK Ventures, and Idinve ...

Idinvest's portfolio company, Neurala, closes $14m Series A funding round

Neurala, a Boston, MA-based developer of a deep learning neural networks platform to make smart products more autonomous, interactive and useful, closed a $14m Series A funding round. The round was led by Pelion Ventures, with participation from Sherpa Capital, Motorola Ventures, 360 Capital Partner ...

Idinvest's portfolio company, Neurala, raises $14m to build brains for drones, autonomous cars, and more

Neurala, a software and services company that helps bring artificial intelligence (AI) to drones, robots, cars, and consumer electronics, has announced a $14 million series A funding round led by Pelion Ventures, with participation from Sherpa Capital, Motorola Ventures, 360 Capital Partners, Draper ...

Idinvest's portfolio company, Neurala, closes $14m Series A to bring machine learning to the edge

Neurala, a Boston-based artificial intelligence startup, raised $14 million in funding. Pelion Ventures led the round. Versace's startup, which on Tuesday said it had landed a $14 million investment round led by Pelion Ventures, specializes in a type of artificial intelligence called deep learning. ...

Idinvest's portfolio company, Neurala, closes $14m Series A to bring machine learning to the edge

Artificial intelligence is swiftly becoming a commodity thanks to the rise of AI-as-a-Service offerings from Amazon and IBM. Today, Neurala is joining this list thanks to a $14 million Series A led by Pelion Ventures. The team is looking to put AI in the hands of toy makers, drone enthusiasts and Io ...

Here's why Nasdaq is the best stock exchange to list on by Benoist Grossmann

While the Paris and Frankfurt stock markets preen their feathers to entice those disillusioned with Brexit, one financial centre glides on unchallenged: Nasdaq. The American market remains by far the reference exchange for companies looking to finance their growth. In the first half of 2016, 35 new ...

Idinvest receives two prizes during the Private Equity Exchange & Awards 2016

Be part of the future with Idinvest at Beijing's International Capital Conference

Idinvest Partners' Chance Program gets wide recognition at 21st Franco-Chinese Economic Forum

Idinvest Partners received wide recognition at the occasion of the 21st Franco-Chinese Economic Forum held on December 8th in Beijing, where the 3rd Innovation Awards Ceremony for Franco-Chinese Teams was celebrated. Idinvest's CHANCE program featured among the finalists of the Innovative Initiative ...

Idinvest Partners features as a lead investor in Venture Capital Round-up

OxThera has raised €32 million for a treatment for hyperoxaluria, a urinary condition that can cause kidney stones. Lead investors were Life Sciences Partners, Ysios Capital, Sunstone Capital and Flerie Invest, alongside Kurma Partners, Idinvest Partners, Stiftelsen Industrifonden and Brohuvude ...

Idinvest Partners' new fund - 'Idinvest Growth Fund II' - announces a first closing of 250 million euros

Idinvest Partners strengthens its commitment to financing unlisted European businesses with the initial closing of its second capital growth fund at 250 million euros. The strategy of 'Idinvest Growth Fund II' follows in the footsteps of the firm's previous investments in the growth sector which fin ...

Idinvest Partners supports French Startups in French Tech Tour China

From October 24th to November 4th, a selection of 11 French start-ups embarked on a tour to China. Organized by Bpi France and Business France, the French Tech Tour was sponsored by Idinvest Partners. This two-week program of intensive immersion, aimed at boosting French startups' commercial opportu ...

Idinvest Partners recruits Julien Princi as General Counsel

Idinvest Partners, mid-market private equity investor with more than €6.7bn under management, has hired Julien Princi as its General Counsel. Princi has worked in the asset management industry for 14 years, most recently as the deputy general counsel for Amundi. He will report to Idinvest partn ...

Idinvest Partners Appoints Julien Princi as General Counsel

Julien Princi, formerly Deputy General Counsel for Amundi, is hired by Idinvest Partners, a private equity firm focused on the mid-market segment. Princi specializes in the creation of private equity funds and has experience with both European and US regulation. He will report to Syvianne Guyonnet, ...

Idinvest Partners appoints Princi as new General Counsel

Paris-based Idinvest Partners has appointed Julien Princi as general counsel, marking the private equity and private debt firm's fifth appointment this year. Princi has spent the last 14 years working in the asset management industry, and has extensive experience with fund structures and both Europe ...

Idinvest appoints Julien Princi as General Counsel

Paris-based private equity firm Idinvest Partners has appointed Julien Princi as General Counsel.Princi, who specializes in the creation of private equity funds and related transactions, joins Idinvest from Amundi. In its latest deal, Idinvest led a €7m third round of funding for online shippin ...

Idinvest Partners Appoints Ex-Amundi Exec Princi as General Counsel

European private equity company Idinvest Partners has named Julien Princi as General Counsel. He will report to COO Syvianne Guyonnet, bringing extensive experience with fund structures and both European and U.S. regulation. Based in Paris and founded under the name AGF Private Equity in 1997, Idinv ...

Idinvest finances Isabel Marant fashion house

Idinvest sells digital portfolio company Webedia to Fimalac

Idinvest introduces French SMEs to chinese corporates in la Rochelle

On the 24th September, three of Idinvest Partners' portfolio companies (Nenuphar, Vulcain Technologies and Forsee Power) participated in a roundtable hosted by Fondation Prospective et Innovation during its PME: Horizon Chine seminar in La Rochelle. This annual seminar aims to open dialogue and dig ...

Idinvest Partners announces the arrival of Géraldine Usseglio, Director of Human Resources

Géraldine Usseglio has been announced as Director of Human Resources at Idinvest Partners. She will report to Syvianne Guyonnet, Partner and COO at Idinvest Partners. Géraldine joined Idinvest Partners in September 2016 with over 15 years of experience in HR, notably in the services and publi ...

Idinvest's digital portfolio compagny Zenly seduces America

Amazon acquires Idinvest's digital portfolio company, Curse

Idinvest expands its international team with the recruitment of Sophie Béric and Solomon Moos

Idinvest Partners is expanding its international team with two new additions to the Strategy & Solutions division, led by Partner, Sylvain Makaya. As Strategic Projects Director, Sophie Béric is responsible for managing Idinvest's international and cross-border projects. Moreover, Solomon Moos ...

Idinvest's digital portfolio company, Ogury, raises $15M in Series B funding

Ogury, a factual mobile data specialist, raised $15m in Series B funding. The round was led by Idinvest Partners with participation from existing investors Ventech, CoVent Partners and ACG. The company intends to use the funds to accelerate international expansion with a New York office, as well as ...

Idinvest's portfolio company, Twitch, acquires Curse : a gaming and media community company

Twitch, the Amazon-owned live game-broadcasting service, announced a deal to acquire privately held Curse, a company that provides news, in-game chat, video and databases for some 30 million video-game fans each month. Curse had raised $58 million in funding from investors including GGV Capital, Idi ...

Idinvest's portfolio company, Onfido, secures funding

Onfido, a global identity verification and background checking provider, has raised an unspecified amount of funding from Salesforce Ventures, Talis Capital and angel investors to "scale" its trust solutions for financial services firms. Earlier this year, Onfido closed a $25 million funding round w ...

Idinvest's portfolio company, Onfido, completes investment round

Onfido, a global identity verification and background checking provider, has raised an unspecified amount of funding from Salesforce Ventures, Talis Capital and angel investors to "scale" its trust solutions for financial services firms. Earlier this year, Onfido closed a $25 million funding round w ...

Idinvest's portfolio company, Onfido, completes fundraising for solutions in the financial services market

Onfido, a leading global identity verification and background checking provider, announced it has raised funding from Salesforce Ventures, Talis Capital and angel investors to scale its machine learning-enabled trust solutions for financial services firms. Earlier in the year, Onfido announced their ...

Idinvest announces Talend's successful IPO on Nasdaq, its 4th portfolio company to be introduced to the Nasdaq Stock Exchange

Idinvest announces the successful Initial Public Offering of Talend on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange today. In its first trading session on the Nasdaq in New York, Talend's share price soared more than 50 % from its IPO price. This IPO marks a major step in the rapid and successful development of Talend ...

Talend, Idinvest's portfolio company, nudges tech IPO market

Software company Talend has raised more than $100 million from investors including Balderton Capital, Bpifrance, Idinvest Partner among others. The Franco-American company had a strong debut on the Nasdaq on Friday in what investors see as a boost for this year's lackluster tech IPO market...&nbs ...

Idinvest announces Talend's successful IPO on Nasdaq - its 4th portfolio company to be introduced to the Nasdaq Stock Exchange

Private Equity IPO Feedback: Talend, Idinvest's portfolio company

Talend SA, a French provider of big data integration software, raised $95 million in its IPO. It had raised around $125 million in VC funding from firms like Silver Lake Sumeru (25.4% pre-IPO stake), Idinvest Partners (20.1%), Balderton Capital (20%), Galileo Partners (8.2%) and Bpifrance (6.9%)... ...

Idinvest's portfolio company, Talend : another big IPO for tech market

Talend - a cloud-computing startup with offices in France and California - saw its shares surge 42 percent, to $25.50, in their first day of trading on the Nasdaq. The company's late Thursday offering - priced at $18 a share - was above the expected range of $15 to $17, and raised $94.5 million... R ...

Idinvest's portfolio company, Talend, closes at $25.50 after first day of trading, up 41% from IPO price

Data integration company Talend made its debut on the Nasdaq today, with shares of its stock closing at $25.50, after fluctuating between $24.26 and $28. Talend started in 2005 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California. Investors include Bpifrance, Iris Capital, Silver Lake Sumeru, Balderton ...

Idinvest's portfolio company,Talend, soars after topping targets in second Bay Area tech IPO of 2016

Big Data integration software company Talend raised about $95 million in a closely watched IPO which traded between $25 and $28. Before going public, Talend raised over $100 million from investors who included Galileo Partners, Balderton Capital, Idinvest Partners, Iris Capital and Silver Lake Partn ...

Idinvest's portfolio company, Talend, Nudges Dormant Tech IPO Market

Only the fifth tech IPO of 2016, Talend provided an encouraging sign as companieshesitated to risk a poor performance in the public markets. Talend has raised more than $100 million from investors including Balderton Capital, Bpifrance, Idinvest Partners, Iris Capital and Silver Lake Sumeru. Talend ...

Big data integrator and Idinvest portfolio company Talend pops 54% in Nasdaq debut, raising $94.5M

French-American big data startup Talend made its debut as a public company today having raised over $100 million from French and European investors like Bpifrance, Idinvest, and Iris Capital Partners. The company began trading on Nasdaq at $27.66, giving the company an implied valuation of $537 mill ...

Idinvest-backed Talend rolls out IPO

California-based software company Talend has raised $95m for its IPO after pricing its 5.25 million shares at $18 per share. Talend's backers included Silver Lake Sumeru, Idinvest Partners and Balderton Capital. Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan Securities, Barclays Capital Inc and Citigroup Global Markets ...

Idinvest recruits new Head of Marketing: Stéphanie Courtadon

Private equity firm Idinvest Partners has hired former Siparex Ventures head of marketing and development Stéphanie Courtadon as head of marketing. Stéphanie Courtadon will be responsible for both marketing and development. Before joining Siparex in 2012, Courtadon was in charge of inv ...

Idinvest Partners appoints Stéphanie Courtadon as Head of Marketing

Idinvest Partners, the European private equity investor, announces today that Stéphanie Courtadon is joining the business as Head of Marketing. In this role, Stéphanie will be responsible for both Marketing and the RFP process. Before joining Idinvest Partners, Stéphanie had been Head of Marketin ...

Idinvest believes in Europ's SMEs

H1 2016: French start-ups raised nearly 700 million euros

French start-ups collectively raised €694M on the private venture capital market during the first semester of 2016. Last year, Sigfox raised € 100 M while opening its shares to three corporates: NTT, Telefonica and SK Telecom, benefiting from the support of its existing shareholders: Bpifr ...

Benoist Grossmann appointed Vice-President of the AFIC

Will Bain's listing of Maisons du Monde herald la belle époque for France?

A quarter of Eurozone mid-market M&A deals during Q1 2016 were completed in France. "When I was younger, the holy grail for a family-owned business was to become listed. I personally think some businesses are developing faster and on much better terms in the private equity market", added Idinves ...