Our investments
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Solar photovoltaic | 2012 | Renewable Energy | Info |
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Abakus Solar With offices in Gelsenkirchen (head office), Cologne, Munich and Berlin, Abakus Solar is a developer and installer of photovoltaic rooftop and ground-mounted installations as well as wholesaler of complete installation kits (panels & inverters). Abakus Solar operates in the German market and has a strong presence in selected key markets outside of Germany such as Italy, Taiwan and the USA. The investment of Crédit Agricole Private Equity will enable Abakus Solar to step up its international development and to secure a third party investment solution for the financing of its photovoltaic infrastructures. |
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Leisure | 2012 | NICT Venture Capital | Info |
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Visiware Based in Sèvres, Visiware is the world leader in digital television gaming with its Playin’TV™ channel. It recently launched PlayAlong™, a solution that has already become a reference for the market. This solution allows millions of viewers to participate simultaneously in televised shows from home using their laptop, tablet, or Smartphone. To date, Visiware has produced hundreds of shows using it’s PlayAlongTM platform and played in nine different countries (Brazil, United States, France, Malaysia, Netherlands, etc.) on channels such as Antena3, Fox, SBT, SBS6, TF1, ZDF… |
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Software | 2011 | NICT Venture Capital | Info |
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viavoo Founded in 2009, viavoo provides for large, brand name companies a full range of Customer Experience and social CRM software solutions to better understand and engage with their customers across multiple channels, including e-mail, chat, surveys, social media, blogs, forums, and other customer touchpoints. Based in Boulogne-Billancourt, viavoo employs fifteen people serving customers across various B2C areas (including Cdiscount.com, Voyages-SNCF.com, Vente-Privee.com, Bouygues Telecom, Nivea and Europcar). |
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Services | 2011 | Co-Investment | Info |
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RAC Founded in 1897, RAC is the second largest UK roadside assistance provider with over 7 million members. The Company is headquartered in Birmingham, has approximately 4,000 employees, and also provides motor insurance broking services. The RAC management team has a clearly articulated strategy to optimise the roadside assistance business, grow the insurance and financial services business, and diversify further into motor services and other personal finance-related products in the longer term. Crédit Agricole Private Equity invested EUR 15 million alongside The Carlyle Group, which acquired RAC from insurance company Aviva. |
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Clothing and textile industry | 2011 | Co-Investment | Info |
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MONCLER Founded in 1952, the Moncler Group is a global multi-brand luxury goods company which conducts the design, creation, marketing and distribution of high-end clothing and accessories. The Group is among the world leaders in their down jackets and owns the historic Moncler brand and other exclusive brands, such as Henry Cotton’s, Marina Yachting and Coast Weber&Ahaus. It is also a licensee of 18CRR81 Cerruti. Based in Milan, the Group operates chiefly in four global geographic areas: Italy, Europe, Asia/Japan and North America. Crédit Agricole Private Equity participated in Eurazeo acquisition of a 45% stake in Moncler in October 2011. |
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Healthcare | 2011 | Biotech Venture Capital | Info |
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Amakem Founded in 2010, Amakem is an ophthalmology company developing new treatments for serious eye conditions. Amakem’s product pipeline is based on its unique Localized Drug Action platform which is designed to generate safe and effective novel kinase inhibitors that minimize systemic exposure with the aim of reducing side effects. Amakem is based in Belgium and located in the life sciences incubator “BioVille” at the University of Hasselt. The Company has a long-standing collaboration with the Ophthalmology Research Center of the University Leuven Hospital. |
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E-commerce | 2011 | NICT Venture Capital | Info |
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L'Usine à Design Launched in September 2009, L’Usine à Design is an e-commerce platform and community offering internet users designer and personalisable products. Thanks to its active community, real designer pieces and platform giving access to manufacturers, L’Usine à Design is helping to change codes of practice in the furnishing market and shopping habits in a predominantly standardised sector. Based in Paris, L'Usine à Design has 23 employees. |
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Industry | 2011 | Small Cap LBO | Info |
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SIMP Founded in 1949 in the Paris region, SIMP is a forerunner in plastic and rubber injection moulding. It designs and manufactures small precision parts in medium or large series for major cosmetics companies such as L’Oréal, Lancôme, Dior, Givenchy, Estée Lauder, Bourjois and Oriflame, as well as certain value-added niche markets such as connectors, aerospace and medical. The company is No. 1 in the European cosmetics market in the manufacture of plastic make-up applicators and brushes. |
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Services | 2011 | Mid Cap LBO | Info |
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SVP Founded in 1935, Groupe SVP develops a range of services to help businesses and local authorities with the management and development of their activities. It has four main business lines: personalised professional information and help with decision-making (SVP), legal information for client relations (BusinessFil), payroll and HR management (e-Paye), and skills development (Agif). Group SVP is based in Saint-Ouen. |
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Software | 2011 | NICT Venture Capital | Info |
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TrustYou Created in 2008 and located in Munich, TrustYou provides data widgets and software to the hospitality industry, to analyse reputation and social content (online reviews, posts and tweets) through an innovative technology based on semantics. TrustYou works mainly in Europe for 400,000 hotels, accommodations and restaurants. |
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Catering industry | 2011 | Mezzanine | Info |
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Daltys Daltys is the number four player in the French vending machine operators’ market, with dense regional |
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E-commerce | 2011 | NICT Venture Capital | Info |
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Adamence
Established in 2005 and based in Paris, Adamence is a pioneer in online jewellery sales. Thanks to its access to and control of goods and manufacturing, Adamence offers a wide product range while remaining competitive on price. The company's growth was historically based on the sale of diamond jewellery. It gradually expanded its offering and now provides a full range of premium jewellery (diamonds, coloured gemstones, pearls, jewellery for men). The website also offers the option for customers to create their own compositions, to obtain fully personalised jewellery. |
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Medical devices | 2011 | Biotech Venture Capital | Info |
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Novate Medical Novate Medical, based in Galway Ireland, is focused on developing unique inferior vena cava filter devices (‘IVC filters’) for the prevention of Pulmonary Embolism in patients at transient high risk for Pulmonary Embolism. The lead product is the world’s first, and only, bio-convertible IVC filter. PE is a major cause of acute cardiovascular death in the developed world. It affects over 1.2 million people in the US and Europe annually and may account for as many as 500,000 deaths per year. IVC filters are designed to capture clots, preventing them from reaching the lungs and causing PE. The Novate device is unique in that it contains a bio-absorbable element that allows for protection during the period of PE risk. It eliminates the need for a second, follow-up procedure which is required to remove currently available temporary IVC filters. |
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Pharmaceuticals | 2011 | Biotech Venture Capital | Info |
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Themis Founded in Vienna in 2009, Themis Bioscience is an Austrian start-up biotechnology company developing novel vaccines against emerging infectious diseases with high unmet medical need. The pre-clinical and clinical development activities focuse on a Dengue and a Chikungunya Fever vaccine. Both vaccine candidates have demonstrated promising preclinical data. They are based on a novel vaccine vector technology that was initially developed at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, with which Themis collaborates. |
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Internet | 2011 | NICT Venture Capital | Info |
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Trusted Shops Created in 1999 and based in Germany, Trusted Shops has set its sights on becoming one of the leaders in France in certification of retail websites. Its strength is providing merchants with a comprehensive solution unlike any other on the market. T he company offers retail websites a way of gaining consumers’ trust and increasing sales through a package that includes a Seal of Approval, a Legal compliance and financial audit, a Money back guarantee for online shoppers and a dispute resolution service. |
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Clothing and textile industry | 2011 | Mezzanine | Info |
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Olly Gan Based in Aix-en Provence (near Marseille), Olly Gan designs ready-to-wear up-market clothing for 35-50 year-old men. It operates through a distribution network of more than 100 shops in France. Mainly company owned, but also affiliates and franchisees, these shops are located in the top-of-the-range shopping centers and downtown. In April 2011, the Mezzanine team arranged and underwrote the bonds with share warrants (OBSA) mezzanine debt facility put in place when the Olly Gan group was acquired by Syntegra Capital, in partnership with SG Capital Partners and the management team. |
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Solar photovoltaic | 2011 | Renewable Energy | Info |
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Ikaros Solar Ikaros Solar, based in Antwerp, Belgium, and in Wales, designs and creates "turnkey" solar power plants on the roofs of mainly industrial and commercial buildings. It is one of the market leaders in big photovoltaic roof installations in Belgium, and has created installations for amongst others Ikea, Philips, Carrefour and Johnson & Johnson. |
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Medical devices | 2011 | Biotech Venture Capital | Info |
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Cellnovo Based in London, Cellnovo develop the first mobile diabetes management system. The Cellnovo system, developed in-house, is unique in several ways including: the accuracy and size of the pump’s technology, as well as the touch-screen, mobile-connected device that provides healthcare professionals and families immediate access to a myriad of information. Its advanced micropump technology enables people with diabetes to more efficiently manage their life-saving therapies while benefiting from greater personalization and portability. |
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Industry | 2011 | Italy LBO | Info |
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Favini Favini has been operating in paper production for over 100 years. It is world market leader in industrial release papers and also a key player in special graphic papers thanks to its innovative products, intended for the fashion and luxury goods sectors. |
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Pharmaceuticals | 2011 | Biotech Venture Capital | Info |
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Complix Complix is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the discovery and development of Alphabodies™, a novel class of biopharmaceuticals with distinct structural and functional properties that offer significant advantages over existing protein based therapies. Alphabodies™ bind with high affinity to a wide range of disease targets and are particularly suited to address certain target types that are difficult to access with antibodies or other protein scaffolds. |
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