Helsinn International Services specializes in early-stage investments, focusing on innovative technologies across biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and food supplements. Its areas of interest include cancer therapeutics and diagnostics, cancer supportive care, metabolic and gastrointestinal disorders, and dermatology conditions. Headquartered in Monaco with offices in Switzerland, Ireland, Lugano, and China.
Aquatic Informatics Inc. is a software solutions provider specializing in water data management and analysis for the environmental monitoring industry. Founded in 2003 and based in Vancouver, Canada, the company caters to a diverse clientele, including hydropower operators, watershed authorities, irrigation districts, mining companies, academic institutions, and various government agencies. Its product offerings include AQUARIUS Workstation, which provides data processing tools, and AQUARIUS Server, a centralized data management platform for water agencies. Additionally, Aquatic Informatics offers data acquisition systems such as EnviroSCADA for supervisory control and Sample Tracking and Receiving System for lab sample collection. The company is recognized for its innovation in environmental data management, serving clients from hydrologists to water resource managers in North America and beyond, with partnerships established with organizations like Environment Canada, the US Geological Survey, and various international agencies. As of July 2020, Aquatic Informatics operates as a subsidiary of the Danaher Water Quality Platform.
Founded in 1983, Alpha Group is a private equity firm based in Luxembourg. It specializes in leveraged buyouts of mid-sized companies, investing in family-owned businesses, corporate spin-outs, and growing businesses with expansion opportunities.
Founded in 2004, Pamplona Capital Management is a privately owned investment firm based in London, with additional offices globally. It manages hedge funds of funds for clients, investing primarily in public equity and fixed income markets across Europe and North America. The firm employs a bottom-up approach to select fund managers.
Total Impact Capital is an impact investment firm founded in 2010 and headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, with additional offices in New York, San Francisco, Geneva, and Monaco. The firm specializes in early to later-stage investments, focusing on providing growth capital to businesses that address critical issues such as healthcare, education, clean water, sustainable agriculture, and financial inclusion. Total Impact Capital aims to create lasting, sustainable solutions by connecting capital providers with entrepreneurs, governments, and non-profit organizations. The firm typically finances investments ranging from $3 million to $30 million across various sectors, primarily targeting opportunities in Africa and the United States. Through its unique network, Total Impact Capital seeks to identify and support teams that have the potential to scale their solutions into major enterprises, ultimately delivering both social and financial returns.
Established in 2017, Lurra Capital is a Swiss-based private investment firm with a diversified portfolio focusing on venture capital, real estate, and private equity investments.
Alpha Wave Global is an investment company with expertise in private equity, private credit, and public markets. Established in 2012, the company focuses on partnering with exceptional founders and management teams in growth-stage companies, primarily within the information technology sector.
Monaco Asset Management is a wealth management firm based in Monte Carlo, Monaco. Founded in 1999, the company provides advisory asset management and specializes in financial structuring, life insurance, and succession planning. It also offers tax and legal advisory and comprehensive wealth planning, with investment decisions overseen by its executive management.
Hilbert Group is a quantitative investment firm specializing in digital assets, including cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies. It serves institutions by connecting them to digital asset markets and conducts asset management within a regulated, fund-like framework. The company focuses on investment and risk management of quantitative strategies designed to capture alpha and beta opportunities across digital asset markets. In addition to its asset management activities, Hilbert Group engages in proprietary trading and strategic investments in blockchain-related equity. The firm emphasizes systematic approaches to trading and risk control, leveraging data-driven models to navigate evolving digital asset ecosystems.
Madison Dearborn Partners is a Chicago-based private equity firm that specializes in management buyouts and middle-market transactions, with growth capital and structured equity investments. It targets a broad mix of sectors including basic industries, technology and software, financial services, healthcare, telecom, media and technology services, consumer, and real estate, with emphasis on North America and the Midwest. The firm typically makes investments of roughly $100 million to $600 million, often taking a majority stake and a board seat, and aims to exit within five to seven years. Founded in 1992, Madison Dearborn Partners works with management teams to create long-term value.
MBK Partners is an independent private equity investment firm headquartered in Seoul, South Korea, founded in 2005. It concentrates on North Asia, with an exclusive focus on buyout investments in Greater China, Japan and Korea. The firm targets a broad range of sectors, including financial services, consumer and retail, telecommunications and media, technology and business services, healthcare, industrials and manufacturing, and other related industries, seeking controlling stakes through buyouts in companies across the region.
XPV Water Partners, established in 2006, is a Toronto-based impact investment firm focused on the water sector. Comprising experienced water entrepreneurs, operators, and investment professionals, the firm invests in water and utility enterprises across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, aiming to make a positive difference in the water industry.
Founded in 1953, BDC Capital is a Canadian investment firm specializing in growth and expansion financing. It focuses on information technology, technology, energy, cleantech, and healthcare sectors across Canada.
Founded in London in 2007, Vespa Capital is a private equity firm focusing on lower mid-market investments. It partners with ambitious management teams, leveraging its deep commercial expertise and extensive network to deliver shareholder value growth.
Sopra Steria Group is a French IT services company operating across Europe, providing consulting, systems integration, digital transformation, software development, infrastructure management, and business process services. Its primary business is systems integration, accounting for around 60% of its revenue.
Danaher designs, manufactures, and markets professional, medical, industrial, and commercial products. Operating in over 50 countries, it focuses on life sciences and diagnostics following the divestment of its environmental and applied solutions group.
Icecat is a platform that manages and syndicates product information for various channels. It offers digital catalogs featuring tech, office, consumer electronics, DIY, FMCG, toys, and other products in multiple languages.
CIBC Innovation Banking is a division of CIBC that serves entrepreneurs and investors in the innovation economy. Backed by CIBC, it offers financial capital, a broad network of connections, and insightful service to help growth-oriented companies and their investors secure funding, form partnerships, and scale operations. The bank's team combines capital solutions with practical guidance and access to a wide ecosystem of industry partners to support startups and venture-backed businesses through key growth stages.
Innovatus Capital Partners, established in 2015, is a New York-based investment firm that specializes in identifying and capitalizing on market distress, disruption, and growth opportunities. The company focuses on both real and financial assets, employing a private debt/private credit strategy to invest in targeted asset-based and cash flow opportunities. Its investment approach emphasizes capital preservation, identifiable and durable cash flow streams, and upside optionality. Innovatus primarily serves the life science and real estate sectors, providing asset class diversity and capital structure flexibility through various strategies such as purchasing assets, structuring royalty or direct ownership, partnering, and structuring direct loans.
Azulis Capital is a Paris-based private equity firm focusing on mid-market investments across France. It specializes in providing expansion capital, replacement capital, and growth capital to companies operating in sectors such as healthcare, industry services, business services, consumer retailing, manufacturing industries, and others.
Arkéa Capital is the private equity and venture capital arm of Crédit Mutuel Arkéa, based in Le Relecq-Kerhuon, France. It engages in direct investments and fund-of-funds across sectors with a focus on France, especially Western regions. In seed and startup stages it typically invests between €0.1 million and €1 million; for growth capital, corporate restructuring or buyouts it ranges from €1 million to €70 million, aiming for long-term holdings and usually minority stakes, with possible co-investment. Exits typically occur after five to ten years, with longer horizons when acting as a reference shareholder in large-cap companies. Target sectors include agriculture and fishing, food and consumer goods, industrials and services, technology, energy, healthcare, financial services, logistics, and manufacturing.
Crowdcube Limited is an equity crowdfunding platform based in Exeter, United Kingdom, with an additional office in London. Founded in 2009, the company allows entrepreneurs of start-ups and growing businesses to raise funds from a diverse network of investors, including friends, family, and the general public. Through Crowdcube, individuals can invest in small companies in exchange for equity or an annual return, thereby democratizing access to investment opportunities that were once primarily available to corporate investors. Since pioneering equity crowdfunding in 2011, Crowdcube has facilitated over £300 million in investments from more than 390,000 investors, supporting over 520 successful fundraising campaigns. Notable businesses that have utilized the platform include Monzo, River Cottage, and the Eden Project, among others.
La Financiere Patrimoniale d'Investissement is an investment firm based in Paris, France. It provides private equity, private debt, real estate investments, and asset management services, focusing its activity on growth and value creation across multiple sectors. The firm targets opportunities in food, healthcare, retail, construction, manufacturing, and services, supporting companies with capital solutions and long-term partnerships.
Motion Equity Partners S.A.S, formerly known as Cognetas LLP, is a private equity firm specializing in investing in buyouts including management buyouts; growth; succession in a family business; buy and build; international expansion in Europe and beyond; buy-ins; public to private transactions; and restructurings of mature, mid-cap, and mid-market companies. The firm primarily focuses on consumer, industrial, business services, media, financial services, and healthcare sectors. Within the consumer sector it seeks to invest in the leisure, retail, household and consumer goods, and food and drink sectors. In the industrial sector, the firm’s investments include building materials, automotive, manufacturing, and chemical sectors. Its investment in the financial services sectors includes outsourced financial services, insurance, and financing companies. Within business services sector, the firm prefers to invest in outsourced services, logistics and transportation, facilities management, and other business services. In the healthcare sector, the firm prefers to invest in the healthcare services and equipment sectors. It typically investments in companies based in France. The firm prefers to invest between $22.01 million and $526.82 million in companies with enterprise values between $55.05 million and $735.4 million and sales value between $66.12 million and $991.87 million. It typically invests up to €400 million ($526.82 million) in European buyouts wherein it seeks control positions. Motion Equity Partners S.A.S was founded in 2001 and is based in Paris, France with additional offices in Milan, Italy and London, United Kingdom.
Montefiore Investment is a Paris-based private equity firm that pursues growth investments in small and mid-sized service companies across France. The firm targets opportunities in business services, digital and technology, consumer services, leisure and tourism, healthcare, green and clean energy, agricultural processing, waste recovery, financial services, and related sectors, seeking to combine growth with profitability. It emphasizes partnering with close management teams and adds value through strategic guidance, operational expertise, and active development support. Established in 2005, Montefiore Investment is authorized by the Financial Markets Authority (AMF) and a member of the French Association of Capital Investors (AFIC).
Andera Partners is a Paris-based private equity firm founded in 2001 that invests in unlisted companies in France and internationally. The firm focuses on growth-stage opportunities, primarily through buyouts, and manages over €2 billion in investments across life sciences, growth capital, and sponsorless mezzanine debt. It targets sectors including sustainable energy, transportation and logistics, agribusiness, business-to-business and business-to-consumer, building and construction, cosmetics, distribution, industry, information technology and software, media, medical technology, real estate, therapeutic products, and tourism.
Lonsdale Capital Partners is a London-based private equity firm focused on the European lower mid-market. The firm targets cash-generative, well-positioned companies with clear business models, primarily in the United Kingdom and Northern Europe, and seeks to acquire majority stakes to support growth. It operates across sectors including business services, healthcare, commercial services and industrials, providing both capital and hands-on strategic and operational support to management teams to build durable franchises. Founded in 2008, Lonsdale works with portfolio companies to expand market reach, improve operations and accelerate value creation through disciplined growth initiatives.
Morgan Stanley Investment Management is a global investment manager that provides investment solutions to governments, institutions, pension funds, charities, foundations, asset managers, and individuals. It manages equity, fixed income, and balanced portfolios, and offers mutual funds and other fund products. The firm invests across public markets worldwide and also engages in private market activities through its private equity and alternative investment platforms. As part of the Morgan Stanley group, it serves a broad client base and operates from major financial centers, focusing on delivering long-term results across regions including North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America.
NEO Investment Partners is a private equity firm established in 2004 and based in London, United Kingdom. The firm specializes in investing in European brands with significant growth potential in new markets and channels, particularly within the consumer products, food and beverage, and retail sectors. NEO seeks out authentic brands that align with its investment criteria and partners closely with management teams to lay the groundwork for international expansion. The firm emphasizes that growth should not compromise a brand's essence, and it leverages its extensive global experience and robust international network to facilitate successful market entry. Beyond financial investment, NEO offers strategic support in areas such as brand analysis, business planning, and navigating legal and financial complexities. The firm prides itself on its energetic and dedicated team, which collaborates with entrepreneurial management teams to create synergies that drive brand growth.
Renewal Funds is a Vancouver-based mission-driven venture capital firm that backs early-stage and early-growth companies in Canada and the United States. It focuses on sustainable technologies and practices, including organics and environmental technology, with an emphasis on the sustainability of food, water and climate. The firm invests across sectors such as energy, water, mobility, the built environment, food and agriculture, and the circular economy.
Publicis Groupe, a French multinational, is the world's third-largest communications group. It specializes in healthcare communications, digital advertising, and marketing services. The company offers a wide range of solutions, including interactive communication services, social media expertise, e-commerce, and customer relationship management. With a strong presence in North America and Europe, Publicis Groupe drives business transformation through the integration of creativity and technology.
Founded in 1984, CBPE Capital is a London-based private equity firm focused on investing in middle market companies across various sectors in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The firm prefers to partner with businesses valued between £25 million to £150 million, aiming to support their growth goals.