Arnaud Llinas

Founded in 2009, BlackFin Capital Partners is the leading private equity firm investing in financial services companies across Europe. A fully independent firm, BlackFin is led by its partners, who have worked together as senior executives and entrepreneurs in the European financial industry for decades. The firm now spans Europe with offices in Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, and London and has team of +50 investment professionals with nationalities spanning the globe. Backed by institutional investors from Europe, the Americas and Asia, BlackFin has raised an aggregate of +€4 billion in commitments and deploys capital from its complementary financial services buyout and fintech venture funds. Our Buyout strategy targets asset-light businesses, such as: asset management, institutional and retail brokerage, distribution of insurance and banking products, payments, fund administration, business process outsourcing, and financial software. BlackFin Tech, our VC strategy, focuses on early-stage B2B FinTech, InsurTech and RegTech companies with exceptional growth that have also a demonstrated a clear product-market fit with potential to be international category leaders. We believe in responsible investing and incorporate ESG in our investment and monitoring processes.

Avec près de 200 membres investisseurs actifs, Paris Business Angels (PBA) est un leader en France du financement des start-ups en phase damorçage. Réseau généraliste, PBA accompagne chaque année de nouvelles sociétés innovantes basées en France sur des tours de financement de 400K€ jusquà 4M€ (fonds propres), seul ou en co-investissement. Les membres de PBA apportent aux entrepreneurs un financement mais également une expertise et leurs réseaux personnels.

Societe Generale is one of the leading European financial services groups. Based on a diversified and integrated banking model, the Group combines financial strength and proven expertise in innovation with a strategy of sustainable growth. Committed to the positive transformations of the world’s societies and economies, Societe Generale and its teams seek to build, day after day, together with its clients, a better and sustainable future through responsible and innovative financial solutions. Active in the real economy for over 150 years, with a solid position in Europe and connected to the rest of the world, Societe Generale has over 117,000 members of staff in 66 countries and supports on a daily basis 25 million individual clients, businesses and institutional investors around the world by offering a wide range of advisory services and tailored financial solutions. The Group is built on three complementary core businesses: - French Retail Banking which encompasses the SG and Boursorama brands. Each offers a full range of financial services with omnichannel products at the cutting edge of digital innovation; - International Retail Banking, Insurance and Financial Services, with networks in Africa, Central and Eastern Europe and specialised businesses that are leaders in their markets; - Global Banking and Investor Solutions, which offers recognised expertise, key international locations and integrated solutions. Societe Generale is included in the principal socially responsible investment indices: DJSI (Europe), FTSE4Good (Global and Europe), Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index, Refinitiv Diversity and Inclusion Index, Euronext Vigeo (Europe and Eurozone), STOXX Global ESG Leaders indexes, and the MSCI Low Carbon Leaders Index (World and Europe).