SMALT Capital SA

PE/Buy-Out · Marseille (France)

PE/Buy-Out

Seed

Series A

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SMALT Capital SA, formerly known as ACG Management SAS until June 2020, is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in capital-succession deals, seed, startup, mezzanine, early venture, mid venture, late venture, emerging growth, middle market and mature stage investments. It also specializes in growth capital, recapitalization and buyout transactions. It typically invests in unlisted mid-cap and small and medium sized companies. The firm invests through LBO, LBI, OBO, MBO and MBI. The firm seeks to make investments in industrials, capital goods, manufacturing, materials and new materials, automotive parts and equipment, consumer durables and apparel, commercial services and supplies, consumer goods, retail goods, tourism, entertainment and sports activities, Silver Economy, leisure and digital sectors, food products and food processing, air freight and logistics, mechanical industries, metallurgic, communications equipment, plastic products, construction materials, telecommunication services, energy, electronics, microelectronics and peripheral, software, multimedia, environment, services, distribution, information and communication technologies and security, cloud computing, public works, and real estate development sectors. It also invests in development of products, processes or services (renewable energies, organic-resources, sets of subjects related to the energy sector, gas measurement to optimize industrial processes, bio-based products, wind or solar infrastructure, recycle of waste, solar electricity production, anti-industrial pollution, green economy and carbon print, energy and industrial safety themes in the sectors of the environment, industrial ecology, environment green or friendly chemical). It also invests in healthcare, medical technology, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, life sciences and in well-being such as care centers, leisure centers and medical technologies, medical analysis, services to persons, hotels, gastronomic sectors and the luxury sector, such as cosmetics, leather goods and accessories among others, and the digital sector and digital economy mainly in cyber security, Big Data, e-commerce, and smart objects. The firm also seek to invest in wineries and in the wine industry including production and distribution, vineyards and also traders and actors of the distribution such as retail trading, brokers and wine wholesalers and in related industries of the wine sectors such as in agri-viticultural machine tools, equipment’s, tanks, presses and supply of consumables including glass, corks, barrels, fertilizers and bottling. It considers investments in Italy, Spain, Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Jordan, Turkey, Réunion, French Polynesia, New Caledonia, Martinique, French Guiana, Guyana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Mayotte, Saint Martin, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Pierre, Miquelon, Wallis, Futuna, Clipperton, French Southern and Antarctic Lands and France. Within France, it focuses on the former French regions of Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur, Rhône-Alpes, Burgundy, Franche-Comté, Ile-de-France, Corsica, Marseille, Auvergne and Languedoc-Roussillon. It also invests in the following former French regions and it’s following former French departments: Aquitaine (Gironde, Dordogne, Lot-et-Garonne, Landes and Pyrénées-Atlantiques), Poitou-Charentes (Deux-Sèvres, Vienne, Charente-Maritime and Charente), Midi-Pyrénées (Lot, Tarn-et-Garonne, Tarn, Aveyron, Gers, Haute-Garonne, Hautes-Pyrénées and Ariège), Limousin (Creuse, Haute-Vienne and Corrèze) and Pays de la Loire (Vendée). The firm prefers to invest between €0.05 million ($0.06 million) and €8 million ($10.19 million) per transaction in companies with an enterprise value between €3 million ($3.51 million) and €30 million ($42.70 million) and sales values between €1.5 million ($1.9 million) and €50 million ($65.38 million). It prefers to take a seat in the Board of Directors of its portfolio companies and seeks minority stakes of up to 35% and also majority stakes in the businesses it acquires. It typically exits its investments after five years. It also co-invests. SMALT Capital SA was founded in 2000 and is based in Marseille, France with additional offices in Marseille, France, Ajaccio, France, Nouméa, New Caledonia, Paris, France, Saint Denis, Reunion and Tunis, Tunisia.

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