Arkéa Capital, SAS

Arkéa Capital, SAS, formerly known as Synergie Finance, is the private equity and venture capital arm of Crédit Mutuel Arkéa. It specializes in direct and fund of funds investments. Within direct investments, the firm makes seed, startup, early to late venture, growth capital, corporate restructuring, recapitalization and buyout investments in large-cap, mid-cap and small and medium size companies. It seeks to invest across all sectors with a focus on agriculture and fishing, food, consumer goods, industrial goods and services, biotechnology, communication, construction and public works, distribution, electronic, energy, computer hardware software, manufactures, healthcare, services, business services, financial services and transport and logistics. The firm prefers to invest in France with a focus on Western France and mainly in the former French Regions of Brittany, Pays-de-Loire, Basse-Normandie, Centre, Poitou-Charentes, Limousin and Aquitaine. As part of its seed and startup investment strategy, the firm usually makes equity investment between €0.1 million ($0.24 million) and €1 million ($1.18 million). As part of its growth capital, corporate restructuring and buyout strategy, the firm typically invests between €1 million ($1.09 million) and €70 million ($76.07 million) while seeking to make long-term investment. The firm typically exits its investments after five to ten years but can stay for more than ten years when it is a reference shareholder in large-cap companies. It prefers to take minority stakes in its portfolio companies and can co-invest. Arkéa Capital, SAS was founded in 1999 and is based in Le Relecq-Kerhuon, France with additional offices in Brest, Nantes, Paris, Rennes, Bordeaux, Lyon and Strasbourg.