Eurazeo

Check out the AI Europe report 2024 by Dealroom.co and Roosh where we are proud to be featured as a top AI investor in Europe. 🚀 French successes and rising stars include our Venture portfolio companies Mistral AI, AQEMIA and H Company, illustrating France’s central position in the field AI thanks to a strong AI culture, quality education, and dynamic research. Discover the full report: https://lnkd.in/dCWHucs8 #AI #GenAI #VC #Venture #PrivateEquity #funding #PowerBetterGrowth

[#RealEstate] Check out the keynote interview of Pierre Lariviere, Managing Director - Real Estate in PERE’s latest issue. This edition highlights hospitality’s attractive risk return profile and discusses the key factors that are shaping the asset class for investors across Europe. ‘As the pandemic accelerated a significant shift in travel preferences, with travelers now seeking new experiences, enhanced services and a focus on lifestyle, the hospitality sector in Europe presents abundant prospects for the repositioning of hotels, hostels, outdoor hospitality assets and resorts.’ states Pierre Larivière Dive in the full interview: https://lnkd.in/ecByXzR6 #RealAssets #hospitality #investors #tourism #travel #investment

We are delighted to announce that Eurazeo is now a member of the Singapore Venture & Private Capital Association 🌏 Following the opening of our Singapore office in 2020, our membership of this key association of the Singapore VC and PE ecosystem confirms the strengthening of our foothold in Asia and the close relations forged with institutional investors such as pension funds, businesses and other leading institutional clients. 🔎 The Singapore Venture & Private Capital Association (SVCA) was formed in 1992 to promote the development and interests of the private capital industry. Learn more: https://www.svca.org.sg/ Matthieu Baret Albert Shyy Julien Mialaret #Venture #VC #PrivateEquity #PrivateCapital #AssetManagement #institutionalinvestors #familyoffices

Thomas Turelier, Investment Director - Venture Digital, was at the Microsoft Summer Party: L’IA en Seine to share his insights on investing in AI in 2024 as a VC. This event gathered a hundred participants for demos, conferences and feedback from CEOs and investment funds, and was an opportunity to reaffirm the dynamism of the French GenAI start-up ecosystem. ▶ Check out the wrap-up of the day: https://lnkd.in/eRJvCF7V #AI #GenAI #Venture #VC #PrivateEquity #startup 

Benoist Grossmann, Managing Partner, took part to the 3rd edition of ★ Les Assises du NewSpace ★ alongside Jean-Luc Maria, CEO of Exotrail, for a deep dive into the success story of Exotrail and an investment testimony with the Series B €54M fundraising in 2023.   🔎 Exotrail is a space mobility operator based in France which proposes products focusing on satellite mobility, optimizing their deployment, increasing their service performance, and reducing space pollution.   🗣 “Thanks to its exceptional results, with products proven in space since 2020 and a broad portfolio of customers in Europe, North America and Asia, Exotrail entered a scale-up and internationalisation phase. In line with our strategy of building the tech leaders of tomorrow, this investment enabled us to support this highly promising team, which has everything it takes to become the global benchmark for space logistics.” stated Benoist Grossmann    #AssisesNEWSPACE #space #VC #Venture #PrivateEquity #spacemobility #fundraising #investment #finance #PowerBetterGrowth

[#Sustainability] It is a great honor to be recognized as one of the World’s Most Sustainable Companies of 2024 by TIME and Statista. 🙌   Eurazeo ranks #81 worldwide and among 500 companies doing best for the Earth. 🌍   ‘This ranking reflects the significant milestones achieved by Eurazeo in making trackable, public commitments to doing better for the planet, incorporating sustainability into our business model and our portfolio companies. The rigorous methodology used by Time and Statista took into account the successful progress of our SBTi decarbonization roadmap, as well as our high scores from CDP (formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project) reaching an A rating.’ states Sophie Flak, Member of the Executive Board and Managing Partner - ESG and Digital at Eurazeo   Check out the ranking: https://lnkd.in/dAxy8_Ag   Christophe BAVIERE William Kadouch-Chassaing Olivier MILLET Audrey LAMBRY #sustainability #ESG #SBTi #CDP #decarbonization #impact #CDP

The Eurazeo Transition Infrastructure Fund (ETIF) won the ‘Infrastructure fund of the year’ award at the Sustainable Investment Awards 2024 by Environmental Finance 🙌   “Receiving this award is a great honor for Eurazeo and a testament to Eurazeo Transition Infrastructure Fund’s ambition to support the transition to a low-carbon economy while delivering superior risk adjusted financial performance. We are grateful for the support of our investors who have entrusted us to deploy their capital across the transition infrastructure space and to deliver a portfolio of sustainable assets bringing long term value to our stakeholders, communities and the environment.” states Laurent Chatelin, Partner – Infrastructure at Eurazeo.   📰 Read more: https://lnkd.in/egmQHTRA   Melissa Cohen Martin Sichelkow Aldo Díaz Sánchez #infrastructure #transition #sustainability #environment #impact #environment #award #PowerBetterGrowth

[#Venture] Our Venture team takes part to Odaseva’s $54M Series C financing to build on its category leadership and expand its product catalog for enterprise customers in the US, in Europe and in Asia.    🔎 Odaseva is the leading enterprise data security platform for Salesforce that provides security and continuity solutions for mission critical applications.   📌 This $54 million Series C equity financing is led by Silver Lake Waterman, with participation from existing investors Eight Roads and Serena Capital, and new investors Eurazeo and Crescent Cove Advisors LP.   📰 Read more: https://lnkd.in/grRasj9Q   Benoist Grossmann Matthieu Baret Louis Bô Romain MOMBERT Sovan Bin Steven Corbin #CRM #data #cybersecurity #financing #PrivateEquity #PowerBetterGrowth

[#PrivateDebt] Our Private Debt team led the financing of Black & White Engineering’s 1st LBO with Waterland Private Equity alongside the founder and management.   🔎 Established in 2014 and based in the UK, Black & White Engineering is an award-winning Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing (MEP) design and consultancy service to top-tier data centre operators, with an expanding global presence. The business today employs over 500 people and works with 110 clients across 23 countries. Waterland's investment, backed by Eurazeo, will further enhance Black & White's already impressive track record and bolster its global expansion ambitions.   📰 Read more: https://lnkd.in/eBKS5xAV   François Lacoste Eric Gallerne Nicolas Nedelec Maxime de Roquette-Buisson Yordi Malawauw Hugo Torresano #data #datacentre #consultancy #MEP #LBO #financing #PowerBetterGrowth

[#Buyout] Eurazeo hosted on June 19 its Buyout Investor Day in Paris dedicated to our Small-mid buyout, Mid-large buyout and Secondaries strategies with over 100 participants, investors and CEOs from our portfolio companies.   Across the different sessions, this year’s edition highlighted:   ➡ Eurazeo’s conviction in the European mid-market as we believe it is the best buyout segment to generate fundamental growth and alpha for our investors. Our conviction driven investment thesis leverages exceptional sector expertise in tech-enabled business services, healthcare and financial services.   ➡ Strong financial results for our investors and distribution partners with 1st quartile DPI across our funds: Mid-large buyout Capital IV, Small-mid buyout PME III and IV as well as Secondaries ESF III, thereby proving the resilience of our operational value creation strategy in uncertain macro times.   ➡ Transformative operational value creation driving fundamental growth through the power of the Group’s flywheel, investing in European mid-market companies at every stage of their growth trajectory. Our in-house sophisticated operating resources and global footprint serve mid-market companies on a large cap scale. This day was also the opportunity to dive in a fascinating insight into digital and technology value creation, focused on delivering ROI on AI today.   ➡ Beyond ESG, Impact is at the core, driving value creation and investment strategies with already 3 impact funds and more opportunities ahead in buyout. Our systematic advanced ESG roadmap rolls out across our portfolio to future companies and enhances liquidity at exit.   We warmly thank our guest speakers and contributions from our portfolio companies: Nadim Baklouti, CTO of DiliTrust Pierre Billardon, CEO of DORC Dutch Ophthalmic Research Center (International) Luca Lecchi, co-CEO of EFESO Management Consultants Mathieu CHAUVIN, CEO of Eres Chris James, CEO of Scaled Agile, Inc.   Christophe BAVIERE William Kadouch-Chassaing Olivier MILLET Sophie Flak Maxime de Bentzmann Antonin de Margerie Eric Sondag Christophe Simon Mathieu Teisseire Pierre Meignen #PrivateEquity #midmarket #assetmanagement #growth #impact #performance #PowerBetterGrowth