Decentralized systems
Commercial & Industrial
Mini grids
Productive uses
Enabling technologies
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Partners
AMF-accredited management company in charge of fund management.
Backed by a community of 400 private investors and renowned institutional investors, Capital Croissance is an AMF-accredited private equity management company with around €700 million under management. Capital Croissance manages entrepreneurial funds that make equity investments in unlisted French SMEs and ETIs as part of reorganization operations.
Cornerstone investor with a €20 million investment in GEIF II. Schneider Electric also provides technical support services to portfolio companies.
Schneider’s raison d’être is to enable everyone to make the most of their energy and resources, reconciling progress and sustainable development for all. Its mission is to be the digital partner at the service of sustainable development. Schneider is driving digital transformation by integrating the most advanced energy and automation technologies.
Cornerstone investor with a €15 million investment in GEIF II.
Capelan is a family-owned French holding company, based in Aix en Provence, which supports and invests in projects that respect the long-term interests of people and nature.
Investisseurs & Partenaires provides technical assistance services (help with sourcing and due diligence, participation in investment and impact committees, provision of premises in Africa, etc.).
Investisseurs & Partenaires is a pioneering impact investment group, dedicated to financing and supporting African entrepreneurs, as well as strengthening the continent’s entrepreneurial ecosystems. I&P has supported over 250 companies operating in a variety of sectors, based in sub-Saharan Africa, and now finances around 50 SMEs each year. The I&P team is spread over 10 sites in Africa as well as in France and the United States, and comprises more than 160 people specializing in investment, impact and, more generally, support for African businesses.
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Impact Committee
Bénédicte Faivre-Tavignot
- Associate Professor in Strategy at HEC Paris, where she created the Master’s in Sustainable Development and the HEC Social Business / Business and Poverty Chair.
- Co-founder of the Society & Organizations Institute.
- Member of the Scientific Committee of Standard & Poor’s Sustainable Finance.
- Member of the Ethics Committee of the Red Cross.
Catherine Bobtcheff
- Research director at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and professor at Paris School of Economics
- Research Fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research and Fellow at the Louis Bachelier Institute.
- Recipient of the 2018 “Best Young Researcher in Finance and Insurance” award from the Europlace Finance Institute.
- Her main research themes focus on theoretical economics, finance, insurance, and industrial organization.
Clara Gaymard
- Co-founder of RAISE (a pioneering group in responsible finance with over 1.5 billion euros under management).
- President and CEO of General Electric France from 2006 to 2016.
- President of the Women’s Forum from 2015 to 2018.
- President of the French Agency for International Investment from 2003 to 2006.
Hilary Maxson
- Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Schneider Electric.
- Member of Schneider Electric’s executive committee since 2020.
- She led companies on 5 continents during her 12 years at AES Corporation.
- Non-executive director of Anglo American since 2021.
Thierry Fornas
- Co-founder and President of EcoAct until 2022.
- Manager of Climate Pal in Kenya until 2022.
- Founding member of the Association of Climate Consulting Professionals (ACCP)
- Founder, in 2021, of Altabaya, a support and investment structure dedicated to impact startups