NextStage

NextStage is a private equity fund manager (venture capital funds (“FCPR”), local investment funds (“FIP”) and innovation investment funds (“FCPI”)) certified by the AutoritÃ:copyright: des MarchÃ:copyright:s Financiers. As committed investors, they provide private equity capital to support the growth of Champion SMEs in France and elsewhere in Europe.

Jean-David Haas

Managing Partner

Marc Mehanna

Investor Relations Professional

Julien Potier

Investment Director & Partner

Past deals in Luxembourg

BOW Group

Series B in 2017
BOW Group is a fast-growing and consumer-driven global IOT company operating in the wearables, connected vehicles and smart home markets. OW (Be Over the World) Group is a fast-growing and consumer-driven IOT specialist, operating worldwide in the wearables, connected vehicles and smart home markets with 3 distinctive brands MyKronoz, RoadEyes and Deconnect. Among its recent successes, there is the launch of ZeTime, MyKronoz’s newest unique hybrid smartwatch introduced onto online crowdfunding platforms. With over $6,000,000 raised and goods already shipped out to more than 30,000 backers, ZeTime became the biggest 2017 project on Kickstarter and Indiegogo, and the largest one ever from a European company. In addition, MyKronoz, with its Swiss DNA and unique position of delivering stylish wearable devices at an affordable price, ranks as the best-selling IOT brand within the retail network of the leading French telecom operator Orange, boosting its ambition to duplicate this commercial success to many more mobile carriers around the world. More recently, MyKronoz has been selected by Amazon to join their Launchpad program, and is pleased to be considered as one of the strategic wearable brands by the world’s leading ecommerce platform.

BOW Group

Series A in 2015
BOW Group is a fast-growing and consumer-driven global IOT company operating in the wearables, connected vehicles and smart home markets. OW (Be Over the World) Group is a fast-growing and consumer-driven IOT specialist, operating worldwide in the wearables, connected vehicles and smart home markets with 3 distinctive brands MyKronoz, RoadEyes and Deconnect. Among its recent successes, there is the launch of ZeTime, MyKronoz’s newest unique hybrid smartwatch introduced onto online crowdfunding platforms. With over $6,000,000 raised and goods already shipped out to more than 30,000 backers, ZeTime became the biggest 2017 project on Kickstarter and Indiegogo, and the largest one ever from a European company. In addition, MyKronoz, with its Swiss DNA and unique position of delivering stylish wearable devices at an affordable price, ranks as the best-selling IOT brand within the retail network of the leading French telecom operator Orange, boosting its ambition to duplicate this commercial success to many more mobile carriers around the world. More recently, MyKronoz has been selected by Amazon to join their Launchpad program, and is pleased to be considered as one of the strategic wearable brands by the world’s leading ecommerce platform.