Generis Capital Partners

Generis Capital Partners is a French asset management company and a pioneer of impact investing in France. It provides small and mid-sized companies with equity, quasi-equity and bond-loan financing, combining financial returns with environmental and social objectives. The firm works with entrepreneurs across sectors including entrepreneurship and business development and environmental and decarbonization activities, with a stated goal of helping smaller SMEs grow into mid-sized enterprises.

Initial investment amounts range from €1 million to €5 million per company, with up to €10 million mobilizable per company. The firm's impact investment fund, created in 2011, redistributes part of its gains to Réseau Entreprendre and Fondation Entreprendre.

Investment activity is concentrated in France. Fund management incorporates sustainability indicators and consideration of potential negative impacts, with stated attention to decarbonizing the economy and reducing sector-specific environmental risks, alongside employment, inclusion, gender parity, workplace wellbeing and the fair sharing of value.