Buyout PE
Initiative & Finance
Initiative & Finance acquires controlling stakes in established, profitable businesses, from Paris, France.
Stated investment criteria
What Initiative & Finance says it buys
Read from Initiative & Finance’s own website in August 2026. This is what the firm says it buys, not what anyone has recorded it buying, and figures are shown in the currency the firm itself used - nothing here is converted. Every line links to the page it was read from.
| People listed on its team page | 291 |
A stated mandate is a firm’s description of itself and was true of the page on the day it was read; firms widen and narrow what they will look at without updating the site. The team figure counts the people the firm shows on one team page, so it is a floor rather than a headcount: firms that split their team across tabs or load it in pages will read low. Nothing here is a commitment by Initiative & Finance to consider any particular business, and nothing on this page is represented as being for sale.
Portfolio
Disclosed holdings
Companies Initiative & Finance lists on its own website. No investment years are published.
| Company | Invested | Years held | Recorded transaction |
|---|---|---|---|
| AKTID | — | — | — |
| Cryopal | — | — | — |
| EUKLEED | — | — | — |
| OCELLIS | — | — | — |
| Offibat | — | — | — |
| PBI | — | — | — |
| Reseau Vert | — | — | — |
| Samshield | — | — | — |
Compiled from Initiative & Finance’s published portfolio page. Where a recorded transaction is shown, that company was the target of a reported deal and has most likely already been realised. Nothing here is represented as being for sale.
Recorded transactions
Buying and selling
Deals in which Initiative & Finance is named as buyer or seller in the transaction archive. 1 recorded exit, most recently in 2019.
| Company | Side | Counterparty | Year | Consideration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moustache Bikes | Sold | LBO France | 2019 | $169m |
Compiled from a transaction archive of 10,204 recorded deals. Most private transactions are never disclosed, so this is a sample of a firm’s activity rather than a complete record of it.
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