Banexi Ventures Partners

Banexi Ventures Partners is a French independent managing company specializing in venture capital investments. The firm focuses on early-stage companies with high growth potential in sectors such as internet, electronics, and medical technologies. Since its inception in 1983, Banexi Ventures Partners has invested over €357 million in 254 companies, demonstrating its commitment to fostering innovation and entrepreneurship.

The company's investment strategy emphasizes proximity and availability, with teams based in Paris and Lyon, ensuring strong mobility throughout France. Banexi Ventures Partners brings extensive expertise in innovative startup financing and monitoring, supporting entrepreneurs in areas like strategy, innovation management, finance, and human resources. This approach aims to create long-term value by being a patient shareholder throughout the life of its portfolio companies.

In 2016, Banexi Ventures Partners merged with Rhône-Alpes Création to form KREAXI, a leading French venture capital firm. This merger combined the strengths and networks of both entities, enhancing KREAXI's capacity to support innovative startups across France and Europe. The firm continues to manage multiple investment vehicles, including BV3, BV4, and BV5, focusing on financing young tech companies with high growth potential in fields such as internet, electronics, and medical technologies.

Investment Requirements: Banexi Ventures Partners seeks to invest in early-stage companies with high growth potential in sectors such as internet, electronics, and medical technologies. The firm is open to various financing stages, including seed, early stage, series A, series B, growth, late stage, pre-IPO, buyout, turnaround, and distressed situations. Geographically, the firm focuses on European countries, with a particular emphasis on France and other European nations. Industries of interest include internet, electronics, medical technologies, biotechnology, business and consumer products, computer hardware, financial services, healthcare, IT services, industrial and energy products, media and entertainment, medical equipment, networking, retailing and distribution, semiconductors, software, telecommunications, and real estate. The firm typically invests between €1 million and €50 million in its portfolio companies.