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Ventech is a venture capital investment manager with a long term outlook, focused primarily on French and European start-ups. They aim to identify businesses with the potential to become international market leaders, and target early-stage companies in the life sciences and information technology sectors. Selection criteria include a driven management team having a strong business strategy.Ventech's portfolio is diversified across sectors, regions and development stages. In France the firm participates in early financing rounds as a lead investor, follows a hands-on investment approach with board representation, and gets involved in all aspects of business operations. They generally participate in later investment rounds as well, and stay invested until the company reaches the IPO stage or is divested through a sale. In the case of foreign portfolio companies, Ventech co-invests with a leading local private equity firm.

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IDInvest is an active, long-term manager which invests in the information technology and life sciences sectors, aiming to invest in businesses with quality management teams, high potential in their target market and the capacity to maintain their competitive advantage. The head offices of their investee companies are located in the European Union.The firm invests EUR 1.5-6 million in each round, taking minority holdings in technology companies seeking to promote their development and international expansion, with the capacity to invest up to EUR 10 million euros per company over several rounds of financing. They are the lead or co-lead in their investments, investing in younger companies or more mature companies that are already profitable and are seeking funds to take advantage of new growth opportunities.IDInvest aims to provide high and accelerated returns through a low-risk, well balanced portfolio based on three complementary categories of assets: primary funds, secondary transactions and co-investments. They prefer to invest through primary commitments and also make secondary acquisitions in funds or asset portfolios to accelerate performance.The firm concentrates their LBO investments on local funds, generally dedicated to a single European country, as well as on a limited number of pan-European vehicles.