EIF for Venture Capital & Private Equity funds

You are a Venture capital and Private equity fund manager ...

The EIF aims to invest in:

• Independent management teams that raise funds from a wide range of investors in order to provide risk capital to growing Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). See EU definition for SME.
• Funds targeting early stage companies that are developing or using advanced technologies in industry or services.

If you are raising funds, send us your investment proposal specifying the details outlined below. Should the investment opportunity meet our criteria, your team will be invited to present the investment proposal. Thereafter, EIF carries out detailed due diligence on all aspects of the proposal before we confirm our willingness to invest.

It is not necessary to indicate on the information memorandum whether the proposal is intended for an EIB Group or an European Commission funded programme / initiative (CIP, Progress Microfinance, JEREMIE, etc).

Our venture capital team will allocate the source of funding at a later stage in the assessment procedure.

E-mail us your investment proposal setting out the following details:

• management team
• investment strategy
• track record
• target market
• deal flow
• geographical scope
• target sectors
• fund size
• legal structure
• proposed terms
• expected returns
• other investors
• timing of fund raising
  

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How to become a financial intermediary under the JEREMIE initiative

EIF offers to venture capital and private equity funds  the opportunity to become EIF financial intermediary in the framework of JEREMIE (Joint European Resources for Micro to Medium Enterprises).

The selection of financial intermediaries will be made only through Calls for Expression of Interest launched by the EIF on ad-hoc basis in those countries and regions that have signed a JEREMIE Funding Agreement. The Calls for expression of interest are always published on a dedicated section on EIF's website.