Investors in Financial Services

Founded in 2019, Obratori is the Corporate Venture Capital arm of L'Occitane Group. We invest in early-stage startups throughout France, Europe, and beyond. As seed specialists, we fully support responsible founders with ambitious game-changing projects. Our role? We team up with them to create, get started, take risks, create value, and reach the first decisive milestones.

We at Capital Croissance were born from a blank sheet of paper in early 2012, driven by a strong entrepreneurial spirit. Our partners have cultivated a community of over 450 private investors, including entrepreneurs, business leaders, and families, who share common values and contribute their financial resources, experience, and networks to support growing SMEs and mid-cap companies. With more than €700 million under management, we specialize in equity and quasi-equity investments ranging from €1 million to €50 million per transaction.

We at La Maison are backed by a pool of outstanding investors, including entrepreneurs from diverse professional and geographical backgrounds such as the Dassault family, the David Weill family, Cointreau family, Carlo de Benedetti, Xavier Niel, Maurice Levy, and many others. Thanks to our unique entrepreneurial ecosystem, our DNA at La Maison is to invest in growth stage and late stage deals, as well as LBOs, with highly exclusive and qualified Venture Capital / Private Equity teams who have a tremendous track record. We aim to bring "smart money" to our investments. Since our creation, we have realized more than fifty investments, leading to approximately €700 million under management.

We at Innovation Capital are dedicated to supporting companies that want to build innovation capital to sustainably support their growth.

We have developed an original and innovative approach at SHARPSTONE by combining a consulting offer, SHARPSTONE Advisory (focused on innovation financing), and an investment offer, SHARPSTONE Capital (specializing in VC seed for technology startups). Concretely, we at SHARPSTONE Advisory are an open-ended financial and operational consulting firm, defined by three key pillars: #technologies, #finance, and #business. But above all, we are a team of passionate and enthusiastic entrepreneurs dedicated to supporting technological innovation and business growth.

SideAngels is the first French club deals platform, enabling investments in startups alongside experienced business angels. By facilitating collaborative investments, SideAngels connects promising startups with a network of seasoned investors. This unique approach provides startups with not only capital but also valuable mentorship and support from experienced business angels, enhancing their potential for growth and success.

To move away from anonymous and speculative short-term financial systems, our vision at Angelor is to give meaning to finance by creating strong connections between budding entrepreneurs and experienced business leaders. These leaders contribute not only their capital but also their experiences, expertise, and networks—key factors for entrepreneurial success. After navigating through trial and error in the early years to refine our model, Angelor has experienced steady growth, accelerating significantly over the last 3 years with the consolidation of our team. Now, 13 years since our inception, Angelor stands as a leading player in venture capital in Auvergne Rhône-Alpes. We are recognized for the quality of our team, our shareholders, and the entrepreneurs we've financed, many of whom have become benchmarks in their respective industries.

We specialise in enterprise development and support management teams to optimise growth and profitability. We’re always on the lookout for talented entrepreneurs wanting to disrupt the status quo and push boundaries. The business areas we cover are technology, SaaS, e-commerce, markets, as well as business services. Driven by an unassailable belief in what we do, we help forward-thinking entrepreneurs flourish and make a positive impact on the future.

Renaissance activates the best of Switzerland Renaissance partners with Swiss SMEs to finance their growth- and succession-plans. We give preference to innovative SMEs with a turnover of between CHF 20 and 80 million. Our investments are financed exclusively by pension funds grouped together within our foundation. For the last 25 years, we have offered the investors and entrepreneurs who place their trust in us a locally-based, high-quality service.

Anchor Group - Anchor International Investments (Switzerland) -Finma registered distribution company for qualified investors in Switzerland. Third party marketing for foreign funds. -Anchor Markets (Switzerland) & Anchor Markets PLC (U.K) - Investment Banking advisory and Private Equity / Debt investing / Placement.

The healthcare sector is worldwide among the most important and fast growing industries. Key growth drivers are demographic trends (population growth and ageing), medical progress and the resulting innovations, rising prosperity (especially in emerging markets) and improved access to medical products and services. In addition, there is a great need for new therapies for a steadily increasing number of diseases. Innovation in products, services and business models remains strong.

BACS-Innov is an investment company focused on supporting young innovative companies, backed exclusively by alumni from Ecoles Centrale (Paris and regional), Supélec, and Centrale Supélec. They invest in startups founded by students or alumni of these schools, fostering a strong community spirit and professionalized venture capital approach. With a capital increase in mid-2019 from around a hundred alumni, BACS-Innov now has the financial capacity to begin making strategic investments, aiming to create value for both entrepreneurs and investors while contributing to the entrepreneurial goals of Ecole CentraleSupélec.