BIP Investment Partners

BIP Investment Partners S.A. (BIP) is an independent financial holding company backed by Luxembourg family shareholders. Its activities are divided between providing private equity to businesses, particularly venture capital to startups, and investing in large, well-established Luxembourg-based businesses The company was founded in 2000 as a joint venture between Banque Générale du Luxembourg (BGL), later a part of Fortis Group, and now as the newly re-formed BGL and several smaller partners, under the name BGL Investment Partners, which was changed to 'BIP Investment Partners' in February 2006 after the rebranding of BGL. BIP is listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange, where it is one of the ten component companies of the main LuxX Index stock market index.

Bruno Lambert

CEO

Katrin Wehr-Seiter

Managing Director

15 past transactions

Simpleshow

Venture Round in 2017
simpleshow is the platform for digital products and services around explainer videos. Guided by the mission to make modern communication simple and concise, the market leader enables everyone to explain a complex topic very simply. The artificial intelligence of the SaaS solution simpleshow video maker supports the user in creating a professional explainer video with just a few clicks – in more than 20 languages. A magic that is based on the experience of tens of thousands of video and eLearning productions for customers on 3 continents. The simpleshow team serves clients from offices in Berlin, Luxembourg, London, Zurich, Miami, Singapore, Hong Kong and Tokyo. Large international companies value simpleshow as a partner for simple explanations.

Mercateo

Venture Round in 2017
Mercateo is the online e-procurement platform for business customers. On www.mercateo.com customers from Germany can chose from a selection of over eight million items, including office materials, IT, laboratory, factory or warehouse equipment. The other European platforms add another six million articles. The range of products does not only cover normal business needs. It also offers a variety of products from obscure categories. The majority of the over a million customers consist of small and medium sized companies. Large enterprises are increasingly starting to use Mercateo as their e-procurement solution. An extensive feature set including basket optimization, a unique search, personalized views, digital approval processes and electronic interfaces are only a few of the advantages that help companies make their purchase more straightforward and reduce costs. Users can utilize the Mercateo web application. There is no need to install any software. Besides Germany, Mercateo is present in eleven other European countries. There are now offices in France, the Netherlands and Austria. Mercateo employs over 250 employees, including 16 apprentices. In 2011, the sales volume increased over 40 percent and added up to 110 Million Euro.

arwe Group

Acquisition in 2017
arwe Group offering our professional services to automotive manufacturers, car dealers, car rental companies, leasing companies and car sharing providers.

lifebrain

Venture Round in 2014
Lifebrain is a fast-growing platform consolidating the actors of the diagnostic laboratory market. It was established and is managed by the founders of FutureLAB, a laboratory group which has been merged into Synlab, a leading company in Europe.

Utimaco

Venture Round in 2013
UTIMACO is a platform provider of trusted Cybersecurity and Compliance solutions and services that develops on-premises and cloud-based hardware security modules and key management solutions as well as compliance solutions for telecommunication providers in the field of regulation.

SOCOTEC

Venture Round in 2013
Socotec is a global provider of services to businesses and local authorities, contributing to the optimisation of their performance by controlling the risks inherent in their activities

KeyDrive

Venture Round in 2012
KeyDrive is an internet solutions holding company located in Luxembourg. Its subsidiaries offer different internet related services. Among the core business areas are domain registration, monetization, and aftermarket services. The holding company includes the Key-Systems group (St. Ingbert, Germany), the NameDrive group (Wasserbillig, Luxembourg) as well as Moniker and SnapNames (Florida and Oregon/USA) with more than 160 employees. With the takeover of Moniker in January 2012 KeyDrive has more than 6 million domains under management. Chairman of the KeyDrive S.A. is Alexander Siffrin, CEO and founder of Key-Systems™. KeyDrive was created in June 2011 through the merger of Key-Systems and NameDrive. Founded in 1998 by Alexander Siffrin, Key-Systems has specialized on domain registration and related internet services. The company currently offers a portfolio of over 300 domain extensions. Key-Systems has subsidiaries in the USA and Mexico and holds shares of several internet related companies, among them the Internet consulting experts Thomsen Trampedach, the Polish registrar AZ.pl. The technical registry provider KSregistry GmbH is a fully owned Key-Systems subsidiary. Furthermore, the fully-owned Key-Systems subsidiary SKYWAY DataCenter not only offers worldwide customers hosting, colocation, vCloud hosting and root/managed severs; the data center also serves as a technical backbone of the KeyDrive affiliated companies. NameDrive is one of the largest parking companies in the world. The international company has its headquarters in Luxembourg, a technical center in Bucharest, and a US office in Texas. Furthermore NameDrive is connected to a Spanish partner office in Santiago and a Japanese partner and support in Tokyo. NameDrive offers parking solutions with targeted premium landing pages and thus perfectly fits the KeyDrive strategy of providing customers with high quality one-stop solutions related to Internet addresses. With the acquisition of Moniker and SnapNames in January 2012, the product range and geographical direction of KeyDrive was extended. Moniker is one of the top 15 ICANN accredited registrars for generic top-level domains on the international market. The company has a strong reputation for being a provider of reliable and safe domain registrations, especially in the USA. Together with SnapNames, Moniker opens up the secondary domain market to KeyDrive, bridging the gap in the secondary life cycle of domain names. This includes domain sale (brokerage), domain auctions and the targeted registration immediately after the release of previously registered Internet addresses (backordering). The purchase of Moniker and Snapnames – two leaders in the domain aftermarket – perfectly fits KeyDrive’s global growth strategy. The KeyDrive group now has a large global outreach, targets a broader customer base and allows the group members to perfectly cross-sell their services. Furthermore, all European clients gain access to US buyers and sellers of domain names.

Euromac2 Group

Acquisition in 2011
The Euromac2 group is a leader in the construction of low-energy homes. For more than 30 years, he has designed and manufactured particularly innovative systems for the construction of individual houses or buildings. These products, originally intended for a targeted clientele of precursors, allow to build to the strictest insulation standards (Low Consumption Building) provided by the new European regulations and those resulting from the Grenelle de l'environnement.

Escaux

Venture Round in 2008
Escaux was founded in 2003 with the vision to radically change the way Unified Communication Services are created and delivered. The joined experience of the founders, their individual talents and clear vision allowed for a flying start. In 2008, Luxembourg-based BIP Investment Partners, decided to participate in Escaux’s capital, further contributing to the national and international expansion of the company.

Green Vision Systems

Venture Round in 2008
Green Vision Systems is looking to bring to market a new way of tracking biochemical contamination sources, such as city air pollution, by providing a comprehensive product suite that replaces processes of days, weeks and even months with that of hours or less. The suite is based on the company's patented and field-proven HSI (Hyper-Spectral Imaging) technology. The company has already initiated mega projects with customers and partners, including in Europe, in Singapore and in the USA.

EuroDNS

Private Equity Round in 2008
EuroDNS is one of the market leaders in the domain name industry. We offer an easy domain name registration process, an intuitive and multilingual interface, over 800 domain extensions and a range of reliable products and services to help companies and individuals maximise their online presence.

Semplice Energy

Venture Round in 2007
Semplice Energy provides a range of clean technology solutions in the UK including consulting, design and systems integration to help businesses reduce their energy usage.

Movetis

Series A in 2007
Movetis NV, a pharmaceutical company, focuses on the discovery, development, and commercialization of drugs for the treatment of diseases in the gastrointestinal (GI) area. Its products address GI disorders, such as severe chronic constipation, ascites, paediatric reflux, as well as severe forms of GI motility disorders, including refractory gastro-oesophageal reflux disease. The company's lead product, Resolor, is used for the symptomatic treatment of chronic constipation in women. Resolor is also tested for chronic constipation in males and children, as well as opioid-induced constipation and post operative ileus. Its products also include M0002, which is in Phase II trials to treat ascites, an accumulation of fluid caused by liver malfunction; and M0003 that is entering Phase II development for symptomatic treatment of heartburn and regurgitation in patient's refractory to PPIs, and pediatric reflux. In addition, the company also has two prioritized compounds out of its preclinical portfolio, M0014 and M0012, and two compound libraries. It has partnership agreements with the universities of Ghent, Leuven, and Rotterdam. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Turnhout, Belgium.

XDC

Series B in 2006
XDC S.A. operates as a Pan-European digital cinema service company. It manages operations for the deployment of digital cinema systems in theatres; and prepares and delivers digital content, which is distributed in cinemas, as well as manufactures digital cinema products, including servers, theatre management systems, projections systems, and central libraries. The company's products include CineStore Systems, a suite of digital cinema solutions; The CineStore Solo G3, a hybrid digital cinema server that offer JPEG 2000 and MPEG-2 play-back capabilities; The CineStore Audi, a device, which provides digital to analogue conversion, external analogue audio source inputs, and signal isolation; The CineStore Plaza, a hardware and software suite that enables its users to manage a cinema multiplex from a single point, as well as 3D digital cinema. XDC S.A. also provides digital content lab for the whole production, post-production, and distribution chain, as well as to synchronize various sounds and subtitle versions on the master; key management and archiving; network operations centre, which includes a spare parts logistical strategy centre and a NOC equipment centre; and XDC Entertainment, a content delivery platform to alternative content distributors/providers. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Liège, Belgium with additional offices in Belgium, Germany, Spain, and France.

IQ-EQ

Acquisition in 2002
IQ-EQ, a leading Investor Service group employing 2,450+ people across 23 jurisdictions worldwide. We bring together that rare combination of global expertise with a deep understanding of the needs of our clients. We have the know how and the know you to deliver for our clients - fund managers, global companies, family offices and private clients.IQ-EQ was a leading multi-jurisdictional provider of financial services in Europe and beyond.In March 2019, SGG rebranded alongside First Names Group, Augentius, Iyer Practice.
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