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Our business

Supporting fast-growing small
and mid-sized companies

Capital Croissance makes equity investments in French small and mid-sized companies through transfer or growth capital transactions, with the dual objective to both accelerate their growth and help them grow, by offering tailor-made support to management teams for their strategic projects.
Our bespoke solutions

Capital Croissance’s three pillars

The club of fast-growing mid-size companies

  • Target: Fast-growing mid-cap companies
  • Turnover: €35m to €250m
  • Ticket per transaction: €15m to €50m
  • LPs: 13 families
  • Liquidity: Up to 15 years
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The club of fast-growing SMEs

  • Target: Fast growing SMEs
  • Turnover: €5m to €100m
  • Ticket per transaction: €5m to €15m
  • LPs: 200+ private investors
  • Liquidity: 5 to 8 years
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Our philanthropic fund

Sectors:

  • Entrepreneurship
  • Sustainable environment & food
  • Education & Insertion
  • Social & solidarity-oriented action
  • Health
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Our types of transaction

The 3 types of transactions we are specialised in

01.

Transmit
MBO / MBI

  • As managing director of a SME, your majority shareholder (family, industrial group, etc.) wants to sell its shares and you are looking for a partner to help you buying them back (MBO)
  • As managing director and main shareholder, you want to sell your shares and transmit the company’s management (retirement, new project, etc.) but you do not have any in-house successor (MBI)
02.

Secure
OBO & securities reclassification

  • As managing director and main shareholder, you want to secure a part of your assets while retaining both the control of the company’s capital and its management (OBO)
  • You want to reorganise your round table to offer liquidity to your minority shareholders (reclassification of securities)
03.

Grow
Growth capital

  • You want to implement a capital increase to finance your development projects both in France and abroad or external growth transactions
Our main investment criteria

Ambitious
development plan

(growth: 5-25% p.y.)

Positive
EBITDA

Talented and
committed

management team

All business
sectors

Reference
shareholder

position
(majority or minority stake)

How we operate

A customised support, adapted to the needs of the managers

Availability

No traditional time-related constraint as our fund is at the beginning of its investment period and has a 13+ years duration.
Availability with 2 to 3 members of the investment team being dedicated to support our portfolio managers.

Dialogue

Transparency and close relationship of trust and cooperation with managers, with no interference in the company’s operational management.

Expertise

Making the Capital Croissance network in France and abroad available in the context of strategic discussions and/or business opportunities: our 200 entrepreneur-investors, our industrial and strategic advisors, our industry experts, etc.

  • Digital transformation

    6 digital partners at the disposal of our portfolio companies to accelerate their digitalization

  • International development

    2 representative offices in Hong-Kong and New-York, partnership with FrenchFounders

  • External growth

    Active search of targets, negotiations, audits, etc.

  • Business development

    Connections with prospects and potential partners through the numerous address books of our ecosystem of entrepreneur-investors

  • Recruitment
    & retention of talented employees

    Partnerships with 3 headhunters, thinking about implementing employee incentive schemes, etc.

  • Strategic consulting
    & competitive intelligence

    Benevolent sparring partner putting forward proposals to determinate the most relevant strategic directions
A tailor-made support

Our main intervention areas

Relationship of trust and close cooperation with our portfolio managers, with no interference in their  company’s operational management.

Our difference is a common feature

Our founding values

ENTREPRENEURSHIP

pragmatism, responsiveness and action

PROFESSIONALISM

rigorous methods and
a solid reputation for over 20 years

TRANSPARENCY

continuous and fluid dialogue with
managers and our business introducers