*** Welcome to piglix ***

Partech International

Partech Ventures
Industry Venture Capital
Headquarters San Francisco, United States
Paris, France
Berlin, Germany
Key people
Philippe Collombel
Jean-Marc Patouillaud
Nicolas El Baze
Romain Lavault
Omri Benayoun
Bruno Crémel
Mark Menell
Olivier Schuepbach
Reza Malekzadeh (entrepreneur)
Total assets $ 850 million
Number of employees
25-50
Website www.partechventures.com

Partech Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in information and communication technologies, operating in Europe, Paris and Berlin, as well as in the US, in San Francisco. Partech Ventures currently manages €850 million across three separate funds, each dedicated to different stages of investment: seed, start-up and growth.

In 2014, the Preqin rankings rated it as one of the top ten venture capital firms in the world and the best in Europe (the only European firm in the top thirty); according to Décideurs, it was also the best capital venture firm in France in 2015. The company launched its Partech Shaker campus in 2014 to much acclaim. The company also launched growth capital fund Partech Growth in January 2015 and the Partech Entrepreneurs II fund in March 2015.

Partech Ventures was originally called Paribas Technologies, and was a subsidiary of the Paribas bank. Partech International was co-founded in 1982 by Tom McKinley and Vincent Worms. The firm moved to California in 1985. In 2007, it was taken over by Jean-Marc Patouillaud and Philippe Collombel, who joined Partech in 1996 and 2001 respectively. They still head up this company in their role as managing partners. 2012 saw Partech Ventures move to Berlin.

With its different funds, Partech Ventures participated in the development and success of many startups and digital companies, French and international, including Business Object, sold back to SAP in 2008, Dailymotion, sold back to Orange in 2013, and La Fourchette, sold back to TripAdvisor in 2014, or Sigfox more recently.

Partech Ventures operates right across the financing chain for start-ups.

Partech Entrepreneur I, which exited in October 2013 for a total of €30 million, has invested in several start-ups such as PriceMatch and Evergig. With half of its capital subscribed by Bpifrance as well as Econocom and BNP Paribas, the fund is managed by Romain Lavault with the aim of financing 30 projects. In 18 months, Partech Entrepreneur I has made it possible to invest in thirty emerging companies: 19 in France, 8 in the US and 3 in Germany. One quarter of these companies racked up in excess of a million euros in turnover.

Partech Entrepreneur II is a second seed capital fund, launched in January 2015, with the aim of investing in Technology projects. It exited with a capital of €60 million, making it Europe’s largest seed capital fund to date in the digital sector. Its aim is to finance 70 start-ups with a starting investment of between €300,000 and €1 million. Its investments are expected to be scheduled at a rate of three per month: one in France, one in Germany and the rest of Europe, and the third in Silicon Valley. The fund is supported by Bpifrance, Carrefour, Econocom, Edenred, Groupama, Ingenico Group, Neopost, FDJ, BNP Paribas and Renault-Nissan. Funds have also been contributed by entrepreneurs and mentors based in France and on the other side of the Atlantic.


...
Wikipedia

...