Investors in Corporates

The Riverside Company is a global private equity firm focused on making control and non-control investments in growing businesses valued at up to US$400 million. Since its founding in 1988, Riverside has invested in more than 480 transactions and has an international portfolio including more than 80 companies.

SBI Group aims to become a corporate entity that provides a variety of one-stop financial services over the Internet now that two major events, the Financial Big Bang resulting from deregulation, and the Internet Revolution resulting from IT innovation, have radically transformed the financial industry.

A Rockstart Accelerator is an intensive startup program that helps entrepreneurs take their companies from early traction to the global market in 6 months. It provides investment, office space, highly specialized knowledge, and access to a broad network of international mentors, partners and investors. During this program, the startups enroll in 30+ workshops on Lean Startup, Growth Strategies, Fundraising, Sales, PR & Marketing, Team & Personal development, Legal & Finance and more. After 100 days the entrepreneurs present their companies to investors, partners, entrepreneurs and industry journalists in Demo Day. Finally, in a month-long program in Silicon Valley startups expand their international network and learn from the world’s leading tech scene.

Cotidiano is an Accelerator specializing in seed and startup investments. They seek to invest in digital projects, with a focus on Fintech (means of payments, investment management and security), Internet of Things (physical or virtual), agribusiness (applied to food and agribusiness raw materials and increased land productivity), environment (Technology applied to water, energy and waste), Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality (Machine learning, cognitive economics applied to education). It seeks to invest in companies based in Brazil. They invest between R$0.1 million ($0.03 million) and R$250 million ($64.92 million) in its portfolio companies. The firm takes a minority stake between 5% and 12%. It offers a 12-week acceleration program, twice a year. It prefers to invest in team of at least two people, being one of them the co-founder. Cotidiano was founded in 2016 and it is based in Brasilia, Brazil.

Goldman Sachs is a global financial services firm that provides investment banking, securities, and investment management services to corporations, financial institutions, governments, and high-net-worth individuals worldwide. The company offers financial advisory services, underwriting services, and client execution services in various markets. They also engage in securities services, financing, and investing activities across a range of asset classes. Additionally, Goldman Sachs manages investment portfolios and mutual funds for institutions and individuals globally. The firm operates various segments, including Investment Banking, Institutional Client Services, Investing & Lending, and Investment Management. Founded in 1869 and headquartered in New York, Goldman Sachs aims to drive technology-based disruption and invest in late-stage venture capital and growth equity transactions to build revolutionary businesses worldwide.

NCI is a private investor company that offers their skills for investing in the public and private markets.

Normandie Participations SAS, SCR is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in seed, start-up, all stages of venture capital, growth capital and buyout investments. It prefers to invest in very small, small, medium sized companies and mid-cap companies based in the former French region of Normandy. It prefers to be a generalist investor therefore it can consider investments in all sectors. The firm typicaly invests a minimum of €0.15 million ($0.18 million) and usually co-invests. Normandie Participations SAS, SCR is based in Colombelles, France.

Endless LLP is a private equity firm specializing in equity investments and acquisitions in special situations such as the acquisition of non-core businesses from larger groups with financial or operational difficulties, growth capital, management buyouts, refinancing, and financial restructuring. It does not invest in startups, speculative investment in listed securities and consultancy business. The firm does not have any sector specifications but targets property assets, retail, manufacturing and other key regional industries including data processing and outsourced services, services outsourcing, pharmaceuticals, food products, distribution, printing services, engineering services, paper packaging, and printing and writing paper . The firm seeks to invest in turnarounds in middle market companies. It seeks to invest small and medium enterprises headquartered in the United Kingdom including Yorkshire, London, North West of England, and Midlands. The firm invests between £0.25 million ($0.38 million) and £80 million ($121.49 million) of its own capital in companies with turnover of between £10 million ($15.19 million) and £1000 million ($1518.68 million). Within buyouts and turnarounds, it makes equity investments between £1 million ($1.52 million) and £20 million ($30.37 million). It also participates in underperforming investments of other private equity houses through acquisition of the investments and turnaround support. It typically holds its investments for a period of three years but may also consider shorter and longer periods. Endless LLP was founded on December 16, 2005 and is based in Leeds, United Kingdom with additional offices in Manchester, United Kingdom; London, United Kingdom; London, United Kingdom; and Birmingham, United Kingdom.

They have since built over 40 businesses in a variety of sectors, including IT services and outsourcing, financial services, education, travel, software, sport and media. Today, their companies have sales of over £350m and employ in excess of 3000 people. Working with entrepreneurs and co-founders, they continue to create and build businesses in these sectors, often from the ground up. They have developed a number of principles that determine the businesses and industries they engage in. They look for high growth, potentially large industry sectors, typically undergoing some market, technology or regulatory discontinuity, where they can build scalable platforms that satisfy a significant customer need, resulting in strong and sustainable margins.

Bpifrance assists companies, booting up the listing on the stock exchange, credit equity. Bpifrance includes OSEO , CDC Entreprises , FSI and FSI Regions to offer in your area of financial solutions at every stage of the life of your business. These companies will be made ​​to Bpifrance after the General Meeting of 12 July 2013. They become the same day, first Bpifrance Finance (ex- SLA ) and secondly Bpifrance I nvestment (comprising CDC Entreprises , FSI and FSI regions ). CDC Entreprises, FSI and FSI Regions will be in the second half, after obtaining social and regulatory approvals, merged into one management company: Bpifrance Investment. The role of Bpifrance is to support the financing of the French economy.