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Invest Europe’s “Investing in Europe: Private Equity Activity H1 2023,” provides a detailed analysis of private equity and venture capital fundraising, investment, and divestment across Europe in the first half of the year, illustrating the effects of high inflation and interest rates, slowing economic growth, constricted financing markets, and uncertain geopolitical conditions.

In this exclusive interview, Anne Fossemalle, the EBRD’s Head of Fund Investments and former Chair and currently Member of the Limited Partner Platform Council at Invest Europe, talks about the impact of private capital in CEE.

Data-driven insights about VC-backed start-ups in Europe. The VC factor combines Invest Europe’s extensive industry data and analysis with that of Europe’s largest venture capital investor to provide deep insights into the European VC ecosystem.

The Invest Europe ESG Reporting Guidelines will ensure that investors, and to a certain extent other stakeholders, are able to understand the GP’s approach to sustainability and, for each relevant fund, the main impacts of its investments on relevant sustainability factors.

Private equity and venture capital is not a single asset class. It is a continuous spectrum of investment. From bright ideas to big businesses, venture capital and private equity are invested in European companies. Every step of the way.

The report shows the European private equity and venture capital industry’s step up in scale and investment capacity, achieving new records for both capital under management and dry powder.

Drawing on Invest Europe's extensive research into industry trends, the Venture Capital: Fuelling European Innovation Report digs deeper than ever into the data, including figures on fundraising, investment, returns to investors and job creation, to provide an unparalleled analysis of Europe’s venture capital industry.

Private equity and venture capital lay the groundwork for a better tomorrow by investing in innovation, nurturing start ups and financing scale ups today, across all sectors.

Private equity is a cornerstone of Europe’s economy and society. Over the past four decades, European private equity and venture capital has grown from a niche segment of the finance industry into a central element of Europe’s efficient capital markets and its healthy asset management universe.

Climate, technology and healthcare: the three areas where Europe can demonstrate global leadership. It is imperative that Europe captures this opportunity to be on the global stage and really create these champions, utilising the skill set of private equity

On March 22-23, 2023, Invest Europe members gathered in Geneva to attend our flagship event: the Investors’ Forum.

Private equity is a cornerstone of Europe’s economy and society. Over the past four decades, European private equity and venture capital has grown from a niche segment of the finance industry into a central element of Europe’s efficient capital markets and its healthy asset management universe.