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Invest Europe updated its online report launched in 2022 to highlight the latest data and success stories of venture capital investment in the Biotech & Healthcare sector in Europe with a focus on employment, growth and innovation.

The most comprehensive analysis of the European private equity industry’s growth in assets over the past decade, as well as available capital for future investment. The report demonstrates private equity and venture capital’s increasing scale as it becomes more embedded in Europe’s economy and society, and its capacity to back businesses and industries that represent the future in terms of growth, innovation and sovereignty.

The report demonstrates the true scale of private capital’s impact on Europe, by examining investment in its entirety, including leverage and co-investment, for the period from 2015 to 2024.

The most comprehensive study of private equity and venture capital activity across CEE, in partnership with law firm Gide Loyrette Nouel. It shows strong double-digit increases in fundraising, investment and divestment, putting activity value back in line with recent historical averages, as flagship transactions pointed to a recovery in market confidence, and international investor appetite increased.

Our sixth annual publication provides deep insights for investors to understand the performance of European private capital asset classes, and analyses data across a range of metrics, including mPME, which is designed to allow a transparent and comparable performance for private capital and public equity investments.

Download the factsheet to see the European private equity and venture capital industry’s real contribution to employment, in 2023, and job creation, in 2022-23 in Belgium and Sweden.

The EIF launched a new format within its long-running Equity Surveys series. The VC/PE Barometer Survey will now track the market sentiment on quarterly basis. By gauging fund managers’ perspectives across key indicators – including fundraising, exits, valuations, access to external finance, new investments, and deal flow – the survey offers a comprehensive view of current market dynamics and forward-looking expectations. Each edition also features an in-depth focus topic. This edition (2025/1) includes an overview of the current market sentiment; and examines in further depth the perceived impact of the new US administration policies on the European VC/PE landscape.

An annual survey, undertaken on behalf of Invest Europe, that collects comprehensive and robust activity data on fundraising, investment and divestment from more than 1,750 private equity and venture capital firms in Europe. For the first time, Invest Europe’s data also includes listed private capital investment, highlighting this growing segment and its role in giving listed equities investors a route into private companies.

Detailed evidence and analysis of the European private equity and venture capital industry’s real contribution to employment, in 2023, and job creation, in 2022-23, and the far-reaching impact this has on the people, societies and economies of Europe.

The Invest Europe ESG KPI Report is the first annual ESG and sustainability data survey to track the industry’s efforts in tackling issues such as climate change, female under-representation and bribery and corruption. Through this initiative – alongside the creation of Invest Europe’s ESG Reporting Guidelines – European private equity can become an undisputed leader and standard setter on ESG measurement and reporting across the global private capital industry.

This report shows the positive relationship between private equity investments and intellectual property rights in the companies that funding backs.

The 10th edition of the report provides a snapshot of how Europe’s tech ecosystem has grown over the past decade, and looking at what lies ahead.

European Mid-Market private equity returns accelerate to 16.9% to the end of 2023 with €215 billion invested over last five years. The report reveals the far-reaching economic and social benefits of Mid-Market private equity investment across Europe.

The survey of more than 250 managers and investors highlights improving optimism about activity over the coming 12 months – and in the medium term – as the macro backdrop stabilises and new technologies create new opportunities for evolution and expansion.

A detailed analysis of private equity and venture capital fundraising, investment, and divestment across Europe in the first half of the year. Green shoots in exits, VC investment turns corner, amid ongoing challenges in H1 activity.