NextStage AM strengthens its teams with the recruitment of Charlotte Giraudeau, Director of Investments
Paris, May 09, 2023 – NextStage AM continues to develop its Capital Entrepreneur program with the recruitment of Charlotte Giraudeau as Investment Director. The Capital Entrepreneur program has already structured 3 funds since 2019 with an overall fundraising target of more than €150 million.
As part of her duties, Charlotte Giraudeau joins the NextStage AM investment team in charge of the Capital Entrepreneur program. It invests in minority equity, in profitable companies generating between 5 and 50 M€ of turnover, in growth, and with entrepreneurs carrying out an ambitious development project.
The Capital Entrepreneur program includes the FPCI NextStage Capital Entrepreneur I & II as well as the FPCI Amundi Capital Entrepreneur (managed by NextStage AM) and aims to offer an investment solution for large private investors, accessible from €100k, and eligible for the transfer 150-0 B ter contribution mechanism.
« We are proud of Charlotte's recruitment, which is helping to consolidate our position in the unlisted small cap universe. Charlotte shares the values and vision of NextStage, an active investor alongside entrepreneurs, at the service of their development projects relating to one of the 3 privileged disruptions: digital, smart health and environmental innovation. » says Nicolas de Saint Etienne, Managing Partner in charge of unlisted activities of NextStage AM.
With more than fifteen years of experience in mergers and acquisitions, Charlotte has accompanied entrepreneurs, investment funds and corporates during some forty operations, all sectors combined, on valuations ranging from 5 to 500 M€.
A graduate of Kedge Business School, Charlotte (39) was M&A Associate Director at Mansartis Finance since 2019. Previously, she spent 4 years at Crédit Agricole MidCap Advisors (formerly Sodica Corporate Finance) as Director of Missions. Charlotte started her career in 2006 as an Analyst, Associate and then Vice President at Aforge Finance, which became Degroof Petercam Corporate Finance.
About NextStage AM:
An independent management company based in Paris, approved by the AMF, NextStage AM, which has cultivated since the beginning in 2002, an "entrepreneur-investor" philosophy, is one of the pioneers and leaders of innovative and patient development capital in France. NextStage AM has developed, step by step, a multi-strategy Private Equity platform which represents in terms of assets at the end of December 2022, directly and indirectly, €7.5 billion in AUM. NextStage AM invests in a limited number of SMEs and ETIs (89 portfolio companies as of 31/12/2022), French and European, innovative and growing, to which it provides entrepreneurial expertise as an investor and strong operational support (integration environmental innovation, talents, international, external growth). NextStage AM provides long-term support to these SMEs and ETIs involved in smart health, environmental innovation and digital. It gives them the means to accelerate their development and their capacity for innovation to become the “Champions” of their markets, both in France and internationally, through organic and/or external growth. https://www.nextstage-am.com
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