NextStage AM launches its new investment solution for large private investors, the FPCI NextStage Capital Entrepreneur II
Paris, June 21, 2022 – NextStage AM, one of the pioneers and leaders in Growth Capital in France, today announces the launch of its new solution for large private investors, the FPCI NextStage Capital Entrepreneur II, eligible for the disposal contribution mechanism 150-0 B ter. This new vehicle follows the success of the first NextStage Capital Entrepreneur FPCI, part of the Championnes Investment Program, labeled Relance, with a size of €135 million which has benefited from the support of many major institutional and private investors and which has convinced more of 115 Entrepreneurs-Investors. In addition, at the end of May 2022, the Championnes investment program had already deployed nearly 55% of the funds raised.
The NextStage Capital Entrepreneur II FPCI meets the allocation needs of major private equity investors. The FPCI NextStage Capital Entrepreneur II may be part of a co-investment perspective with the institutional offer of NextStage AM (Programme Champions and Pépites & Territoires by AXA & NextStage AM). The vehicle thus gives entrepreneurs and major private investors the opportunity to collaborate with renowned institutional investors.
The FPCI NextStage Capital Entrepreneur II, which can be subscribed until December 31, 2023, will constitute a diversified portfolio of unlisted companies, mainly French, in strong growth, with a proven business model and generating between 5 and 500 M€ in turnover. . The vehicle will mainly invest in 3 major themes: digital, smart health, and environmental innovation. The NextStage Capital Entrepreneur II FPCI will have a lifespan of 7 years, extendable 3 times 1 year. This solution, eligible for 150-0 B ter, is also intended to enable sellers of companies to optimize their taxation and continue their entrepreneurial impact.
The previous vintage, the first FPCI NextStage Capital Entrepreneur (I), convinced more than 115 entrepreneurs to join the Champion Investment Program. In addition, NextStage AM's investment teams were able to quickly deploy more than 55% of the vehicle's assets in growth SMEs and ETIs, just 2 years after its creation. We thus find in the portfolio of the previous vintage 12 participations including:
Beyond the financial aspects, investors were won over by the possibility of joining NextStage AM's Capital-Entrepreneur Club and thus benefit from specific monitoring throughout their subscription. Investors from the Capital Entrepreneur range meet twice a year at events organized by NextStage AM to meet the entrepreneurs selected as part of the Champions program, and follow their investment during a management meeting. . This moment of exchange aims to strengthen co-creation, innovation and the sharing of experience between the entrepreneurs of the portfolio and the NextStage AM ecosystem..
« Sourcing of business opportunities, connections, collective intelligence, strategic partnerships and moments of exchange will be at the heart of this collaborative platform. I am proud to carry this ambition, that of cultivating and developing the Club's activity by capitalizing on the talents and cumulative experiences of the ecosystem to bring ever more meaning and added value to the investments in the NextStage AM portfolio and the grow », says Manuela d'Halloy, President of the NextStage AM Entrepreneurs Club.
« The NextStage Capital Entrepreneur range is a fantastic opportunity to offer our entrepreneurs and large private investors the opportunity to co-invest with the largest institutional investors, within the framework of the 150-0 B ter or from a diversification perspective. , in the same program : The Champions Program. The last eighteen months have shown usé that our draft fédérer and d'invest inçon constructive for the territories, français as europeanéen, made sense. We support and encourage investments that create value while providing entrepreneurs with growth and development » adds Jean-David Haas, Managing Director and Co-Founder of NextStage AM.
About NextStage AM:
An independent management company based in Paris, approved by the AMF, NextStage AM, which has cultivated since the beginning in 2002, an "entrepreneur-investor" philosophy, is one of the pioneers and leaders of innovative and patient development capital in France. NextStage AM has developed, step by step, a multi-strategy Private Equity platform which represents in terms of assets at the end of March 2022, directly and indirectly, €7.1 billion in AUM. NextStage AM invests in a limited number of SMEs and ETIs (80 companies in the portfolio as of 31/03/2022), French and European, innovative and growing, to which it provides entrepreneurial expertise as an investor and strong operational support (integration innovation, talents, international, external growth). NextStage AM provides long-term support to these SMEs & ETIs. It gives them the means to accelerate their development and their capacity for innovation to become the "Champions" of their markets, both in France and internationally, through organic and/or external growth.
In December 2015, NextStage AM was awarded the Gold Award for the best player in development capital in Europe by Private Equity Awards, in 2017 NextStage Croissance won the special Jury Prize for Innovation Assets and in 2019 the Prize for writing, Private Equity category of the 2019 wealth management pyramids. With NextStage Champions III, dedicated to nuggets established in the territories, supplemented by the FPCI Capital Entrepreneur, re-employment vehicle dedicated to entrepreneurs wishing to access the strategy developed for institutional investors, NextStage AM completes its development capital investment program and strengthens its intervention capacity, particularly in the territories.
Partner Relations :
Paul-Edouard Falck – pef@nextstage.com - 01 44 29 99 07
Marine Vollot – mv@nextstage.com - 01 44 29 99 09
Jonathan Boudin - jbo@nextstage.com - 01 44 29 99 04
Press contacts:
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