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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.

During this webinar on the EU’s new Omnibus Package on Sustainability and its impact on the PE/VC industry, our expert speakers broke down the proposals, analysing key regulatory changes to the CSRD, CSDDD, and Taxonomy.

The European Investment Bank’s annual Investment Report provides a comprehensive overview of the developments and drivers of investment and investment finance in the European Union. This edition of the report focuses on the European economy’s effort to transform in a way that improves competitiveness, reduces reliance on fossil fuels and maintains its technological edge. The analysis presented relies on the annual EIB Investment Survey of 12 000 European firms and more than 800 US firms.

In this response, Invest Europe highlights the importance of unlocking greater EU and foreign institutional investment into innovative companies, alongside sophisticated and retail capital, while also emphasising the need to introduce a tailored EU long-term savings product and/or label, revise the SME definition, and establish an ambitious 28th regime to strengthen Europe’s innovation and growth potential.

In this response Invest Europe describes to the Financial Stability Board the specificities of the private equity ecosystem when it comes to leverage and calls for an approach that takes into consideration these specificities

In this letter to the European Commission we highlight the private equity and venture capital industry's suggestions surrounding the upcoming Omnibus Sustainability Package including the CSRD, CSDDD, and the Taxonomy.

This response asks IOSCO to carefully draft its Recommendations to acknowledge very specific types of open-ended structures, known as “semi-liquid” funds.

Started in 2021 as an extensive analysis of the venture deals involving Romanian startups, the report expanded to showcase the region’s dynamic of the venture deals raised yearly by tech startups, from early-stage pre-seed and seed rounds to late-stage series rounds. This is the 5th edition of the report and the 2nd edition when the dataset has been expanded to the whole Eastern European region, striving to surface the deals behind the entire region and draw insights on how the industry in this part of Europe is shaped and is finding its edge, making it one of the world’s startup powerhouses.

In 2024, despite global economic challenges, investment in healthcare startups and scaleups reached a record-breaking €350 million, marking a 55% increase from the previous year. The report, compiled by Biocat, presents key data on healthcare innovation indicators since 2009. Catalonia’s healthcare ecosystem ranks third in the region in terms of value-added and employment, demonstrating its strategic significance.

The Venture Capital Monitor (VeM) reports on operations in Italy in 2024. The study has been realized by the Observatory Venture Capital Monitor – VeM active at LIUC University and AIFI and realized thanks to the contribution of Intesa Sanpaolo Innovation Center and KPMG and the institutional support of CDP Venture Capital SGR and IBAN, with the objective of developing a permanent monitoring of early stage institutional activity.

With the 2025 data collection and reporting season in full swing, our expert speakers provided a comprehensive walkthrough of the structure and technical details of the 2024 Invest Europe ESG Reporting Template.

Representatives of the EU and UK-based financial services industries met on 11 February 2025 in Brussels to discuss their respective priorities and shared challenges on the eve of the latest EU-UK Financial Regulatory Forum meeting and agreed on the following statement.

Arthur D. Little: The potential of AI is vast, but its true impact often lies not in the technology itself, but in the people who wield it. Success requires balancing technical mastery with a broader ability to integrate knowledge and systems. It also calls for a cultural shift — one that fosters collaboration, trust, and a willingness to reimagine traditional approaches. The report is not intended to be just as an analysis, but also an invitation to take action.

As a founding member and long-standing supporter of the IPEV Valuation Guidelines, Invest Europe welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the 2025 review. After extensive consultation with our Professional Standards Committee and its members, we are pleased to provide our feedback.

During this webinar, we explored practical AI use cases with the help of our expert speakers.