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An experienced team with complementary skills
Crédit Agricole Private Equity's Venture Capital team consists of eight professionals
with a complementary range of experience and skills in business as well as in
investment.
This means we can combine an industrial and strategic overview of our target
sectors with operational support for invested companies and financial optimisation
of investments.
A clear investment strategy
Selective investment policy
Our investment policy can draw on exclusive sources of deal flow such as the
management team's personal networks and its privileged links to incubator funds,
start-up funds, research labs, fundraisers and Crédit Agricole group's proprietary
networks.
Aware that a company's success depends first and foremost on its managers, we
make sure that our management team has the right combination of skills, experience,
and cohesiveness as well as the ability to manage the growth of high-quality projects.
Five investment sectors
We take minority stakes in recently founded businesses with strong European and
international potential, focusing on the five sectors covered by our investment
team:
ELECTRONICS
Materials
Components
Systems
Laboratory and manufacturing equipment
Design and test software
SOFTWARE
Applications
Development
Administration
Infrastructure
TELECOMS
Radio-frequency
Optics
Networks
Operators
LIFE SCIENCES
Product discovery platforms
Product development
(Therapeutics, diagnostics, instruments)
WEB TECHNOLOGY SERVICES
Corporate services
E-commerce
Active investment in companies for the full duration of our partnership :
Strategic monitoring: we contribute to our partners' thinking on strategy and development opportunities.
Operational monitoring: we take seats on supervisory boards or board of directors, while always respecting
the management's independence.
Recruitment: we share our experience in recruiting managers when selecting candidates for
key positions in our portfolio companies.
Financial monitoring: we work continually to optimise the company's financial resources and play
an active role in sourcing industrial and financial partnerships.
Building investment value: we optimise exit terms using our expertise in financial engineering.
We are constantly attentive to entrepreneurs and their plans and work together
in an atmosphere of mutual confidence to achieve common goals.
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