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Why is European venture capital the place to be for investors.

In our latest Leader Interview, Sander Slootweg, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Forbion and Board Member and Vice-Chair, Venture Capital Platform Council, Invest Europe, looks at how private capital can support European leadership in biotech.

Jean Bourcereau, President & Managing Partner, Ventech and a Member, Venture Capital Platform Council, Invest Europe, discusses why Europe is ideally placed to build global leaders in the coming years.

With key data contributions from Invest Europe, the 2025 edition of Atomico's State of European Tech highlights a powerful shift: Europe is becoming a global tech powerhouse, with nearly 40,000 funded companies, growing pension fund investment, and founders more bullish than ever.

A detailed analysis of private equity and venture capital activity across Europe in the first half of 2025, complemented by a survey of more than 360 managers and investors done with Arthur D. Little revealing growing optimism about the year ahead.

Private equity and venture capital invest to transform companies that grow in value over time.

José María Muñoz, Founding Partner, MCH Private Equity and Member, Mid-Market Platform Council, Invest Europe, highlights how private equity helps ambitious businesses grow: by supporting entrepreneurs, strengthening management teams, driving growth through M&A (including international add-ons), and strategic support to adapt to technological changes.

Bernard-Louis Roques, General Partner & Co-Founder, Truffle Capital and Member, Invest Europe, looks at why this is the right moment and the right opportunity to invest in Europe: it is the world’s largest single market, with over 500 million consumers and 32 million businesses, a supportive regulatory environment, and an ideal foundation for building big European companies that can address the worldwide market.

Valentina Franceschini, Senior Partner, Wise Equity SGR and Member, Mid-Market Platform Council, Invest Europe, discusses how SMEs are the backbone of the European economy, responsible for the majority of employment and value creation across the continent.

Dariusz Pietrzak, a Partner at Enterprise Investors and a member of Invest Europe’s Mid-Market Platform Council, expands on how private capital is helping build Central and Eastern European businesses into international champions.

During this launch webinar, we presented Invest Europe's latest member guidance - a new tool to support human rights due diligence by providing an early-stage, high-level assessment of potential risks linked to prospective investments.

“Private equity has penetrated into all the major and the minor economies of Europe and it's a highly constructive force. It creates wealth, not just for the private equity sector or for the management of the underlying companies, but also for all the communities and employees of those companies.”

Invest Europe, the association representing Europe’s private equity, venture capital and infrastructure sectors, as well as their investors, has collaborated with European Investment Fund, Europe’s largest venture capital investor, to release the EIF Equity Survey 2025.

Patrick Polak, Partner of Newion Partners and Board Member and Member of the Venture Capital Platform Council of Invest Europe, looks at how Europe’s entrepreneurial talent, combined with a growing track record of scaling business globally, has driven the continents start-ups forward and will lead to even greater venture capital success stories in the future.

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.