SWEN Capital Partners

SWEN Capital Partners

Paris, FranceEst. 2015120 employeeswww.swen-cp.fr
€8.00B AUM
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SWEN Capital Partners is a leading player in sustainable investments in private equity, infrastructure, and mezzanine debt, with over 8 billion* euros in assets under management and advisory. With over 100 employees, the asset management firm is owned by Ofi Invest, Crédit Mutuel Arkéa and partially by its employees. SWEN CP has consistently placed ESG & impact at the heart of its strategy for over a decade and offers innovative and sustainable investment solutions to its clients. The firm supports entrepreneurs and its partners in a collaborative effort to address social, societal, and environmental issues, fostering the belief that working together creates sustainable value for all stakeholders. *Calculated in amounts of cumulative commitments

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Strategies

Blue OceanBuyout
SWEN Blue Ocean is a direct impact strategy investing in innovations that help regenerate ocean biodiversity, hence contributing to achieve SDG #14. SWEN Blue Ocean backs startups that deliver both systemic impact and competitive market returns. Our focus is on solutions to overfishing, ocean pollution and marine solutions to climate change. Our first fund, was launched at the World Conservation Congress of the IUCN in 2021, in scientific partnership with Ifremer. The strategy deploys €170 million in innovative ocean health startups, with over 80% institutional investors.
Private DebtPrivate Debt
Our flexible approach combines mezzanine debt and equity to offer a financing structure that fits the needs of entrepreneurs and the maturity of their projects. Our selected solutions fully integrate environmental and social considerations, making private debt a vital source of financing for the sustainability players of the future. Our flexible approach caters to three different situations: sponsorless (management support), mezzanine development (growth funding) and sponsored (transactions invoving shareholding financial partners). A hybrid of mezzanine debt and equity, our strategy places priority on maintaining an attractive coupon rate, without sacrificing returns on equity, while ensuring the diversification of risks (equity sponsors, sectors, business models, company size).
Private EquityBuyout
Building on more than 15 years of experience, we unlock access to private markets through our multi-strategy range investing in primary and secondary funds, a direct co-investment strategy with trustworthy partners and dedicated, custom-built solutions. Our goal is to support the growth of innovative small to intermediate-sized companies with promising growth potential while encouraging sustainable approaches. Active in private markets for more than 15 years, SWEN is now a leading player in French private equity and enjoys close, long-established relationships with specialised investment management companies and intermediaries. With an active portfolio of more than 350 funds and almost 50 co-investments, more than €3 billion in assets under management and three ranges of co-investment and multi-strategy funds, we are proud to be a trusted partner to our clients.
Climate ImpactInfrastructure
An impact strategy to accelerate the transition to a low-carbon economy. Created in 2019 with the backing of mutual and proprietary insurance companies, our impact strategy centred on biomethane has expanded its focus since 2021 to include hydrogen and green fuels. This pioneering strategy combines financial returns and measurable environmental impact in a fast-growing industry that has significantly gained in maturity. Our SWIFT strategy helps to fund tangible solutions to decarbonising energy demands that are currently met by fossil fuels using oil and natural gas and that cannot be shifted to electricity. For the high-temperature heat needed by heavy industry or some forms of mobility, such as heavy duty mobility, aviation and marine transport. The SWIFT strategy also addresses the emissions from the agricultural sector. Implementing these green assets locally not only reduces dependency on imported fossil fuels but also creates employment in sectors of the future that will gradually become essential to the economy and give life to an entire ecosystem. Energy Transition
Tech for GoodVC
We are helping to transform the economy through our approach, which aims to deliver financial returns, promote technology and achieve sustainability by supporting entrepreneurs who make social and environmental impacts central to their business performance. Our Tech for Good approach is to invest in startups whose products and services are creating tangible solutions for a fair and sustainable transition. We are also committed to supporting traditional players as they transform towards a more sustainable business model. To achieve our goal of investing for Nature’s profit, our Tech for Good investment strategy supports startups that contribute to the environmental transition and the development of a more inclusive society. We invest amounts ranging from €300,000 to €3 million, from seed to Series B funding, in the share capital of companies operating in promising sectors. Energy Transition

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