Generis Capital Partners

What is Generis Capital Partners?

Generis Capital Partners is an independent venture capital firm based in Paris, France, with a pioneering stance on environmental and social impact investing in the country for over 12 years. As a management company authorized by the Autorité des Marchés Financiers, they specialize in providing financing to SMEs through equity, quasi-equity, and bond loans, supporting entrepreneurs to succeed in their projects.

In 2011, Generis Capital Partners established the first investment fund in France dedicated to sharing and redistributing a portion of its gains to business leader associations, Réseau Entreprendre, and a foundation, la Fondation Entreprendre.

Their investment thesis focuses on combining financial return with environmental and social impact, leading the way through their impact investing program, committing with management teams to themes such as decarbonizing the economy, reducing sector-specific environmental risks, employment, inclusion, gender equality, well-being at work, and equitable value distribution.

They incorporate sustainability indicators into their management to anticipate durability risks and the potential impact of external events on investment returns, addressing the Main Negative Incidents (PIN) in fund management.

Generis Capital Partners targets investments ranging from 1 million to 5 million euros intially, with the capacity to mobilize up to 10 million euros in a single company. Their goal is to foster the growth of small and medium-sized enterprises on their path to becoming intermediate-sized enterprises (ETIs).

Thibaut de Roux, the founder, asserts their dedication to meeting SMEs' needs by establishing new, more effective and common-good-respectful strategies that blend financial performance with environmental and social impact. The firm's undertakings also contribute to the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (ODD), with a substantial fund size under management, numerous capital-development exits/LBOs, a robust portfolio, and significant job creation.

What they say:

We are an independent firm providing financial solutions to expanding businesses.

What we look for: We invest in growth companies, offering both equity and debt financing.