Odyss?e Venture

Odyssée Venture, SAS is a venture capital and private equity firm specializing in direct and fund of fund investments. For direct investments, it specializes in seed, startup, early venture, mid venture, late venture, emerging growth, mature, mezzanine, turnaround, and pre-IPO investments as well as in leveraged buyouts, buyins and growth capital transactions. The firm focuses listed and unlisted and listed small and medium sized companies. It invests in all sectors though it prefers to invest in information and communication technology, hardware, chemistry and new material, tertiary sectors, electronic components, software and services, IT services, life sciences, biotechnology, healthcare, healthcare equipment and services, business services, medical instruments, industrial, consumer discretionary, consumer durables and apparel, consumer goods, commercial sectors, specialized distributions sectors, as well as in internet retail sectors. The firm seeks to invest in Europe with a focus on France. Within France, it seeks to invest in the following former French regions and its departments: Ile-deFrance (Paris, Seine-et-Marne ,Yvelines, Essonne, Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis, Val-de-Marne and Val-d'Oise), Burgundy, (Yonne, Côte-d'Or, Nièvre and Saône-etLoire), Rhône-Alpes (Ain, Ardèche, Drôme, Isère, Loire, Rhône, Savoie and Haute-Savoie) and Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Hautes-Alpes, Alpes-Maritimes, Bouches-du-Rhône, Var and Vaucluse).It usually makes equity investments between €0.2 million ($0.27 million) and €7 million ($9.36 million) in companies having revenues up to €150 million ($160.5million). The firm seeks to acquire minority stakes in its portfolio companies of 10% to 35%. It typically retains its stakes between two years and seven years. It also co-invests. Odyssée Venture, SAS was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Paris, France.