Cathay Capital

Corporate VC · Paris (France)

Corporate VC

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Cathay Capital Private Equity SAS is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in growth capital, acquisition, mezzanine, PIPEs, small cap, mid-cap, leveraged buyouts, MBOs, capital increases and capital restructurings, industry consolidation, recapitalization, shareholding restructurings, and international expansion, buy-and-builds, carve-outs, co-investments. The firm seeks to invest in seed, start-ups, middle market, mature, late venture, later stage, growth stage, and midsize companies. It invests in all sectors particularly in business and industrial products and services, fintech, healthcare products and services, life sciences, telecommunication, online consumer electronics retail, online beauty care product & stores, pharmaceuticals, fertilizers, agricultural machinery, internet service, products & services, data processing & outsourced services for insurance industry, air freight, automobiles, household durables, leisure products, textiles, casino,travel & tourism, B2B commerce, insurance industry related tech hardware, beauty care services, AI software, system software for insurance industry, logistics software, property management software, automation product, security software, communication equipment, consumer brands/retail concepts, software, technology, digital, online insurance service, e-commerce software, financial software, IT consulting services to insurance industry, media, and automotive and mobility ecosystem with a focus on core technologies for cars. In China, the firm targets fast growing companies in sectors including environment, healthcare tech, online bill payment services, online trading systems, educational & training software, children-focused businesses, agri-businesses, logistics, and household equipment that capitalises on rapid urbanisation, with less focus on majority stakes. The firm targets investments globally with a focus on companies in North America, China, Europe, Asia, Africa with a focus on South and North Korea, Turkey, New Zealand, Australia, Austria, Japan, Luxembourg, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Czech Republic, Sweden, UK, Estonia, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Mexico, Chile, Germany, France, Hong Kong, Spain, Switzerland, and German Mittelstand. It seeks to make cross border investments in mid-size French companies faced with a booming Asian economy as well as a partner for an increasing number of Chinese companies seeking a European foothold. It also invests in OECD countries. It seeks to allocate around 40 per cent each to France and China and the rest to Europe, with a core focus on Germany. The firm primarily invests between €5 million ($5.31 million) and €75 million ($79.78 million) in transactions ranging in value from €2 million ($2.12 million) and €15 million ($15.95 million). In cases of growth capital and leverage buyouts the value of each transaction is atleast €120 million ($127.66 million).It invests in companies with EBITDA between $2 million and $30 million and enterprise value of less than €100 million ($111.45 million). It invests in companies with revenues between $4.24 million and €400 million ($425.53 million) and turnover between €20 million ($21.27 million) and €400 million ($425.53 million). It seeks to have a board seat or observation right in all portfolio companies. The firm seeks to acquire minority or majority stakes alone or as part of a consortium of investors. It seeks to invest in companies whose growth can be fostered from new or enhanced cross-border and domestic development strategies. It seeks to co-invest. The firm seeks to be an ethic of sustainable development, based on social and environmental responsibility criteria. The firm holds its investments for five years. Cathay Capital Private Equity SAS was founded in 2007 and is based in Paris, France with additional offices in Shanghai, China; Beijing, China; New York, New York; San Francisco, California; Tel Aviv, Israel; Singapore, Shenzhen, China, Munich, Germany, Berlin, Germany and Madrid, Spain.

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