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Join NYU Stern Distinguished Professor of Practice Emerita Tensie Whelan to explore the business case for sustainability and how investors can unlock sustainability-linked value creation across their portfolio companies.

A detailed analysis of private equity and venture capital fundraising, investment, and divestment across Europe in the first half of the year. In addition to core data, the report tracks major themes shaping activity, including continuation vehicles (CVs), and investment in defence and deeptech.

AI is considered the most important issue impacting general partners (GPs) — among both managers and their investors. It is also the leading focus for their teams and portfolio companies.

Invest Europe joins 22 other business, financial and professional associations in calling for an ambitious EU Tax Simplification Package that delivers meaningful reductions in administrative burdens. The joint statement urges Member States to preserve the package’s level of ambition, eliminate unnecessary duplication and ensure that simpler tax rules support investment, innovation and European competitiveness without weakening effective tax enforcement.

Invest Europe welcomes the Direct Tax Omnibus as an opportunity to create a simpler, more coherent and proportionate EU tax framework. We call for genuine reductions in administrative burdens, greater consistency across Member States, improved tax certainty for cross-border investment and rules that support Europe’s competitiveness and growth.

Invest Europe supports a proportionate sustainability reporting framework for global operations and value chains that combines meaningful transparency with practical requirements. Our response highlights the importance of reflecting how global businesses operate and the specificities of private markets, so that reporting provides useful information without imposing unnecessary burdens.

This webinar, jointly organised by Invest Europe, France Invest and UK Private Capital, marked the launch of the 2026 editions of the Invest Europe and France Invest ESG Reporting Templates and the newly released UK VC GP/LP ESG Reporting template.

This targeted position paper sets out Invest Europe’s priorities for the SFDR 2.0 trilogues, focusing on the need to preserve the significant improvements secured in the compromise texts to date and to further adapt the product categorisation framework to the specificities of the PE/VC industry.

Ahead of the upcoming European Council, Invest Europe wrote to European Council President António Costa urging Member States to reverse the proposed reduction in the resources allocated to the ECF-InvestEU Instrument - a part of the EU future budget crucial to support venture capital - from €11 billion to €9.6 billion. Drawing on the strong track record of InvestEU and the European Investment Fund in mobilising private capital, we stressed that Europe should be reinforcing, not weakening, one of its most effective tools for boosting EU competitiveness.