CapDécisif
(Early stage investment fund of the Ile-de-France region)
Represented by Jérome Snollaerts
www.capdecisif.com
CAPDECISIF is an early stage capital fund for innovative high potential high-tech companies in the Paris region. It focuses mainly on public research in three main sectors:
This subsidiary of the Loans Fund was created in 2001 and has a capital fund of €17 million. It has so far invested in 15 companies.
The CapDécisif management team actively supports entrepreneurs, helping them make strategic decisions and involving itself in choices relating to the finances of the company in question.
OTC Asset Management (Tocqueville Finance)
Represented by Xavier Faure
www.otcam.com
OTC Asset Management is a venture capital mutual fund and independent tax-incentive high-tech venture capital fund approved by the French financial markets authority. With its funds of more than €170 million, OTC Asset Management invests in companies - mainly companies that are not listed on the stock exchange - that have a very high growth potential.
OTC Asset Management currently has 45 companies in its portfolio.
Seventure Partners (Natixis)
Represented by Didier Piccino
www.seventure.fr
Seventure Partners serves as an active partner for high-growth potential companies, and has been investing in innovative new businesses since 1997. Seventure Partners has approximately €500 million in assets under management and invests in life sciences and new information technologies throughout Europe via 12 Banque Populaire tax-incentive high-tech venture capital funds and 2 venture capital mutual funds (e-Fund and Pre-IPO). The 12 professional investors at Seventure Partners have a great deal of experience and expertise in life sciences and information and communication technologies. They are experienced in capital investment operations, industrial takeovers and floating companies.
Seventure Partners is one of France’s leading venture capital players, and is a subsidiary of Natixis Private Equity which manages €3.6 billion in private equity.
Surveillance advice
Sami Baghdadi
Independent Director
Mr Baghdadi is today considered one of the leading authorities in IT security.
After 6 years as vice chairman and managing director of the banking division at Gemplus, one of the leading manufacturers of smart cards, he became chairman of CertPlus, a subsidiary of VeriSign and one of the leading companies involved in certifying digital signatures.
