Picardie Investissement

Picardie Investissement is a prominent venture capital firm based in Amiens, France, primarily focused on equity investments in small and medium-sized enterprises within the former Picardy region. The firm manages €80 million in capital, distributed across 50 equity lines, and is backed by regional institutional investors. It specializes in a broad range of sectors, including food products, information and communication technologies, construction, medical services, energy, and commerce, with a particular emphasis on renewable energy and sustainable development. Picardie Investissement typically invests between €40,000 and €7.32 million in companies with annual revenues ranging from €2.93 million to €73.23 million, usually acquiring minority stakes. Established in 1985, the firm aims to support the growth of portfolio companies over an average investment period of six years, leveraging the long-term commitment of its shareholders to foster business development and innovation.

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Gil Forteguerre

MD

16 past transactions

Pinet

Merger/Acquisition in 2019

PINET Group manufactures precision components for musical instruments, such as metal reeds for organs and harmoniums. The company was founded in 1840 and is based in Tremblay-en-France, France.

Tiamat

Series A in 2021

Spun off from the CEA/CNRS late 2017, TIAMAT Energy is a start-up that designs, develops, and produces innovative solutions for energy storage applications. The Na-ion technology used in Tiamat 18650 cells presents outstanding properties for power applications, fast charging, and enhanced cycle life. Tiamat aims to further develop its technology in the years to come and to qualify its prototypes in collaboration with many industrial partners and end users.

Tiamat

Seed Round in 2018

Lefevre Manutention

Private Placement in 2018

Lefevre Manutention distributes material handling, industrial, construction, and agricultural equipment. The company sells new and used material handling equipment; offers short-term and long term rental; maintenance and after sales service; and sells spare parts. It offers forklifts, trolleys, front forks, mast forks, sweepers, cleaners, loaders, platforms, handlers, tractors, pallet trucks, and order pickers. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Chambry, France.

Ynsect

Private Placement in 2019

SAS Ynsect operates as a biotech company. The company designs, builds, and operates insect production and processing facilities for the production of feed for fish and poultry. The company engages in bioconversion of organic resources by insects, and their processing into nutrients for feed applications such as proteins, lipids etc., and non-food applications, which includes polysaccharides and derivatives, organic fertilizers, bioenergy etc. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Evry, France.

Decayeux

Seed Round in 2012

Decayeux is a family-owned industrial group active in the individual and collective letterbox markets

Webreathe

Seed Round in 2018

Webreathe is a provider of Information Technology and Services.

Groupe Blondel

Private Equity Round in 2019

Groupe Blondel is a Provider of freight transportation and logistics services.The company provides supply chain services to regional customers and international industrialists.

Tesseract Solutions

Pre Seed Round in 2019

Tesseract Solutions SAS develops devices, which includes technology integration and redeployment solutions. It offers KMeleon, which is a robotic programming software. The company also provides Flexibot, which is a turnkey collaborative robotics cell. It offers security, multi robot, pick and place, palletizing, trajectories, devracage, parts tracking, three dimensional object measurement, mobile, and MSD reduction solutions. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Saint-Quentin, France.

Unither Pharmaceuticals

Venture Round in 2017

Unither Pharmaceuticals, a French manufacturer of dosage forms for pharmaceutical laboratories, and generic products.

Tesseract Solutions

Private Placement in 2019

SA Escalotel

Merger/Acquisition in 2018

SA Escalotel operates a group of hotels-restaurants in Valenciennes, Amiens, Saint-Quentin, Paris, Avallon, and Avignon in France. Its hotels offer rooms in business and tourism cities. The company was incorporated in 1994 and is headquartered in Saint Quentin, France.

Belive.ai

Private Placement in 2019

BELIVE SAS develops and operates an AI (Artificial intelligence) based cloud platform for retailers to enhance customer experience. The company develops solutions to monitor retail store shelves in real time and provide data related to shelve situation, planogram compliance, heat maps, price product compliance, merchandising, and team performance. The platform also counts products and tracks customers. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Amiens, France. BELIVE SAS operates as a subsidiary of Ageco Agencement.

Tiamat

Private Placement in 2018

Ugloo

Venture Round in 2017

Ugloo, offers an indestructible data storage solution. This secondary storage solution allows you to upgrade the available space in the infrastructure as a virtual rack. Since Ugloo reuses the available space in the infrastructure, the company does not need additional investments and retains 100% governance over its data.

Poclain Hydraulics

Private Equity Round in 2022

Poclain Hydraulics develops zero-emission machines with diesel-like performance and optimised battery life. They are focused on optimising our products and systems, integrating electric technology, and accelerating the group's digitalization.