Publications
& Policy

On February 11, Invest Europe hosted a dynamic, online panel discussion among senior industry participants on the CEE region’s dynamic growth potential and opportunities for investors, highlighting recent, successful investment stories (2015 – 2019).

The report offers an in-depth study of private equity’s role in innovation and economic development across Central and Eastern Europe through detailed case studies of companies backed by private equity investors during 2015-2019.

Brand new analysis of Venture and Buyout statistics, looking at the transaction value of Venture-backed and Buyout investments.

This document provides the conversion table from Invest Europe sectoral classification to NACE codes.

Research from Swedish Private Equity & Venture Capital Association about the economic footprint of Swedish private equity.

A forward-looking Market Sentiment Survey capturing the views of more than 350 GPs and LPs on the future of the private equity industry in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The H1 2020 activity data report provides a semi-annual review of fundraising, investment and divestment trends for European private equity and venture capital activity. Please note that this data is preliminary and subject to change.

Invest Europe’s report on benchmarking public and private markets investments analyses the different metrics available for measuring private equity fund performance. It identifies the strengths and weaknesses of the internal rate of return (IRR), multiple of invested capital (MOIC) and public market equivalent (PME).

Invest Europe’s 2019 private equity performance benchmark report measures European private equity returns against relevant stock market indices, as well as private equity funds from North America and the rest of the world on a range of metrics.

Invest Europe provides, for the first time, detailed evidence and analysis of the European private equity and venture capital industry’s contribution to employment, in 2018, and job creation, in 2017-18, in Europe.

In just a few years, ESG, also known as sustainable or responsible investing, has moved from a slightly idealistic niche to front-page, a mainstream dimension for investors, one that strongly influences the performance and resilience of their investment over time. This is particularly the case in infrastructure, in view of its wide-reaching and long-term consequences for the community. What sets aside this report from other compendiums is the rich variety of examples and illustrations drawn from LTIIA members' collective experience, reflecting their specific challenges, the management practices, and proprietary methodologies they developed to manage and address them.

Invest Europe report on private equity and venture capital markets of Central and Eastern Europe in 2019 and prior years.

With data on more than 1,400 European private equity firms, covering 86% of the €782bn in capital under management in Europe, Invest Europe offers the most comprehensive review of fundraising, investment and divestment trends for European private equity and venture capital activity.

Atomico's review of the European Tech

“The VC Factor” is the first large-scale study of VC-backed start-ups located in the EU. A joint effort of the EIF and Invest Europe, the research looks at about 9,000 firms invested in 2007-15 and analyses their characteristics as well as their post-investment performance.