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The most comprehensive study of private equity and venture capital activity across CEE, in partnership with law firm Gide Loyrette Nouel. It shows resurgent divestment activity in 2025 with trade buyers attracted to high-quality buyouts built with private capital, while commitments to new buyout and growth-focused funds also rose strongly. It also highlights economic data showing the region’s ongoing growth and convergence with the EU and drills into success stories that illustrate the power of private equity and venture capital investment.

A detailed analysis of private equity and venture capital fundraising, investment, and divestment across Europe in the first half of the year.

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.

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.

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.

Now in its fifth year, Invest Europe’s Capital Under Management & Dry Powder report highlights not only the size and capacity of Europe’s private capital industry, but also its position in the portfolios of long-term investors.

The report examines investment in its entirety, including the use of leverage and co-investment. It highlights follow-on investments in addition to initial investments to show where capital is flowing in Europe.

The report, in partnership with law firm Gide Loyrette Nouel, shows a pick-up in divestments from 2022 lows, signalling increased confidence among trade buyers in the resilience and potential of companies built by private equity and venture capital firms.

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.