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With key data contributions from Invest Europe, the 2025 edition of Atomico's SOET report highlights a powerful shift: Europe is becoming a global tech powerhouse.

Invest Europe welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the review of the Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR). As the association representing private equity (PE), venture capital (VC), and infrastructure fund managers and their investors, we want to highlight that the sector is disproportionately affected by the current FSR regime.

Too many PE/VC-backed companies are mislabelled “in difficulty”, penalizing how innovation is scaled and financed. Invest Europe's response highlights the need to update the rules to reflect real-world business models, to unlock investment, reduce distortions, and support the EU’s competitiveness where it matters most.

The 2025 Invest Europe ESG Reporting Template is a voluntary tool for members and non-members, designed to provide a harmonised and unified set of ESG reporting KPIs at the portfolio company, GP, and fund levels.

Global and regional risk ratings for 2026. A tool for businesses, investors and strategists navigating international markets.

The survey of more than 360 managers and investors highlights improving optimism about activity over the coming year.

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

Europe has the science, talent, and ambition to lead globally in biotech and healthcare, but to secure that leadership and potential, we must build the conditions that make innovation, capital, and people to start, scale and remain in Europe. In this paper, Invest Europe highlights how to strengthen Europe’s biotech and healthcare ecosystem: unlocking investment at every stage, ensuring public funding complements private capital, promoting smarter and harmonised regulation, creating a competitive end-user market for innovation, harnessing technology and data that accelerate discovery, and strengthening the entrepreneurial workforce - to deliver world-class breakthroughs that drive prosperity, resilience, and better health.

As the European Commission, the European Parliament and national governments are about to negotiate the terms of the next EU Budget, this paper shares the perspective of private market players on the role of public funding for private equity ecosystems. It also examines what can be done to ensure that EU citizens’ money is used in the most efficient way to promote the Union’s goals.

The existence of 28 different company law and corporate governance rulebooks in Europe is considered by the Commission as one of the main barriers to a Capital Markets Union. As a result, further reviews of the Accounting Directives and other relevant pieces of legislation in this field are expected over the next few years.

Public funding has long been relevant to the development of the private equity and venture capital ecosystem. National legislative programmes aim at supporting innovation through venture and growth capital, under EU state aid rules.

The European Commission Recommendation 2003/361 sets out the main factors for determining whether a company is an small and medium-sized enterprise (SME).

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.

Strengthen human rights due diligence from the outset of the investment process with Invest Europe’s new practical tool. Built for investment and ESG teams, this high-level, sector-agnostic framework helps you identify potential risks, spot red flags, and assess governance and mitigation capacity — all aligned with international best practice.

Europe stands at a turning point. By investing strategically, it can boost competitiveness, lead the green transition, and strengthen resilience for decades to come. This report, created by BCG and Confederation of Danish Industry, outlines how Europe can rebuild its foundation for prosperity through modern, connected, and sustainable infrastructure.