GALIA Gestion
Galia Gestion SAS is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing direct and fund of funds investments. Within direct investments, the firm specializes in seed, startup, early venture, growth capital, LBO and buyouts and buyins investments. Within fund of funds investments, it seeks to invest in private equity and venture capital funds and it do not invest in hedge funds. It invests trough convertible bonds, bonds warrants, shares warrants, convertible bonds or stock warrants and redeemable bonds. It typically invests across all industries including energy, wood industries, construction and engineering, metallurgic, industrial services, hotels, restaurants and leisure, media, distribution, food, medical technology and biotechnology, pharmacy, chemical, real estate, computer rental and leasing, information technology, Internet, software, telecommunication services, electronics, consumer goods, capital goods and utilities sectors. It seeks to invest in Europe, with a particular focus on the following former French regions and its following former French departments: Aquitaine (Gironde, Dordogne, Lot-et-Garonne, Landes and Pyre´ne´es-Atlantiques), Poitou-Charentes (Deux-Se`vres, Vienne, Charente-Maritime and Charente), Midi-Pyre´ne´es (Lot, Tarn-et-Garonne, Tarn, Aveyron, Gers, Haute-Garonne, Hautes-Pyre´ne´es and Arie`ge) and Limousin (Creuse, Haute-Vienne and Corre`ze). The firm makes equity investments between €0.05 million ($0.06 million) and €3 million ($4.11 million) per transaction in small and medium sized companies with revenues between €1 million ($1.34 million) and €75million ($102.63 million) and an enterprise value between €10 million ($11.20 million) and €30 million ($33.62 million). The firm generally takes a minority stake between 5% and 35% in its portfolio companies. It typically exits its investments after four to seven years. It also co-invests. Galia Gestion was founded in 2002 and is based in Bordeaux, France. As of November 21, 2017, GALIA Gestion SAS operates as a subsidiary of Alliance Entreprendre SAS.