Finance

As an association focused on delivering exceptional standards and value for members, Invest Europe understands the importance of first-class human talent and robust financial resources. Invest Europe employs seasoned and experienced professionals with deep expertise in their fields. We provide them with the tools they need to develop and deliver services that work for all members. And we ensure that we maintain a strong financial position to enable us to invest in new initiatives that position and promote private equity, venture capital and infrastructure funds as positive forces for Europe’s economy and society.

Having expanded our team in recent years, we maintained staffing levels throughout 2025, ensuring that all departments had the capacity to deliver on their own priorities for the year – whether that was shaping policy impacting the industry, producing ground-breaking and authoritative research, promoting the industry to investors and policymakers, or creating must-attend events and industry education. At the same time, we ensured that Invest Europe continued to represent a wide range of European nationalities and maintained a positive balance of male and female staffing.

As financial uncertainty continued to impact global and European markets, we maintained Invest Europe’s strong balance sheet, drawing on a healthy mix of membership revenues and revenues from events, training and sponsorship. This enabled us to fund new campaigns and initiatives, while also pursuing strategic developments that can strengthen and expand our association for the long-term. This included work on the creation of the Independent Sponsors Roundtable, which formed in early 2026, and brings together managers who choose to operate and invest on a deal-by-deal basis, as well as investors who participate in their investments.