Charles Villet

Tech investor at The Carlyle Group

📍 London, England Metropolitan Area, United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 14 investments📅 15 years investing🗓 Last invested Dec 2025
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Dec 2023
NEVERHACK is a French group specialized in cybersecurity for over 40 years. Operating in 10 countries, the group now has over 1200 collaborators worldwide. Our ambition is to expand internationally to build a secure digital world for all. 🌎 What do we believe in? Creating a safer digital world by offering innovative and ethical cybersecurity solutions, empowering businesses with the keys to project success. 🧐 How do we do this? We support companies and individuals in protecting their data through a unique offering of consulting, training, cyber risk assessment, and AI-driven innovations. ⭐ What are our strengths? Expertise, proximity, and trust! Our expertise is demonstrated through our collaborators certifications and rigorous recruitment process. We select top talent and offer ambitious career paths, with over 1000 certifications earned annually. We maintain close relationships with our partners, both in terms of client relations and geographically, both in France and abroad. We designate single points of contact (both commercial and technical) for increased responsiveness and availability to meet our clients needs. Co-founder of Cyber On Board
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Jan 2020
DEPT® is a Growth Invention company built to help the world’s most ambitious brands grow faster. Operating at the intersection of technology and marketing, our 4,000+ specialists deliver growth invention across Brand & Media, Experience, Commerce, CRM, and Technology & Data. We’re 50|50 tech and marketing, partner-led, and first to move. Clients include Google, Lufthansa, Coach, eBay, and OpenAI. Certified B Corp and Climate Neutral since 2021.
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Sep 2015
Evernex is an experienced third-party maintenance provider supporting data center infrastructure (server, storage and network equipment) to enable cost optimisation, improved return on investment and sustainable development. With our global footprint across 165+ countries, always-available spare parts in over 340 forward-stocking locations, 24/7 technical support and multi-vendor expertise, we are a convenient single-point-of-contact for IT departments in all industries. Just as IT evolves, Evernex grows its service capabilities and reach year-on-year. With recent acquisitions including Maminfo, XSi, Emcon-IT, TechnoGroup and StorEx (Pty) Ltd, we are one step closer to being one of the worlds largest and most experienced TPMs. For a complete overview of our services, visit evernex.com
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Jul 2014
Expereo is the intelligent internet company that connects people, places and things anywhere. We empower global companies to be future-ready. Meeting the business demands of today and accelerating performance and growth for tomorrow. We deliver secure, global network connectivity to enterprise and government sites in 600,000 locations over 190 countries, providing a global service that delivers what a network needs – from design and deployment, to management. Our offices are located across the globe in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Poland, United States, Singapore, Philippines, United Arab Emirates, Argentina, Brazil, and Spain.
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2025
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Dec 2025
Ciril GROUP est un acteur français de l’industrie du logiciel et du Cloud. Ciril GROUP est connu et reconnu pour la fiabilité, la pérennité et la valeur ajoutée de ses technologies, solutions logicielles et services IT. Ses systèmes d’information métier CIVIL accompagnent depuis plus de 45 ans les acteurs publics dans tous leurs besoins de gestion des finances publiques, des ressources humaines, des services techniques et des services à la population ; ses systèmes d’information géographique GEO couvrent tous les usages géomatiques, géomarketing et géo-décisionnels dans tous les secteurs d’activité publics et privés ; sa gamme SMART propose une approche résolument novatrice en matière de GMAO et de BIM ; avec Ciril GROUP Cloud, nous offrons des services d’hébergement Cloud, d’infogérance et de cybersécurité qui répondent aux plus hautes exigences Qualité dans un Cloud souverain certifié Sécurité, RGPD et Santé. Ciril GROUP est le partenaire clé des acteurs publics français, un acteur majeur de l’innovation logicielle sur la scène internationale et un précurseur de l’hébergement Cloud responsable. Ciril GROUP innove constamment, avec passion et ambition ; ses travaux d’innovation, portés par plus de 450 collaborateurs qui mettent leurs talents individuels et collectifs au service de défis technologiques majeurs, sont soutenus par la France (Bpifrance) et l’Europe (Eureka Eurostars) et contribuent à promouvoir la qualité française dans l’industrie mondiale du logiciel et du Cloud. Politique de protection des données de Ciril GROUP : https://cirilgroup.com/politique-de-protection-des-donnees/
2023
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Dec 2023
NEVERHACK is a French group specialized in cybersecurity for over 40 years. Operating in 10 countries, the group now has over 1200 collaborators worldwide. Our ambition is to expand internationally to build a secure digital world for all. 🌎 What do we believe in? Creating a safer digital world by offering innovative and ethical cybersecurity solutions, empowering businesses with the keys to project success. 🧐 How do we do this? We support companies and individuals in protecting their data through a unique offering of consulting, training, cyber risk assessment, and AI-driven innovations. ⭐ What are our strengths? Expertise, proximity, and trust! Our expertise is demonstrated through our collaborators certifications and rigorous recruitment process. We select top talent and offer ambitious career paths, with over 1000 certifications earned annually. We maintain close relationships with our partners, both in terms of client relations and geographically, both in France and abroad. We designate single points of contact (both commercial and technical) for increased responsiveness and availability to meet our clients needs. Co-founder of Cyber On Board
2021
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Jul 2021
Inpart is the leading platform for scientific partnering. We provide comprehensive solutions to facilitate, optimize and track collaborations across industry and academia. In 2022, market-leading biopharma partnering platform Inova successfully merged with IN-PART, a specialized online matchmaking platform focused on fostering collaboration between academia and industry. ​ The strategic union of the two companies as Inpart now offers a powerful platform equipping teams across pharma, biotech, and academia with solutions to showcase innovations and technologies; find untapped science; identify new partners; accelerate deal-making; and manage collaborations. ​ Our commitment to excellence, creativity, and purpose-driven initiatives fuels our mission to connect the right partners at the right time for the purpose of bringing science to the market faster. ​
2020
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Oct 2020
ENVEA is a leading provider of high-precision environment management solutions for the protection of people and planet. We assist entities worldwide in complying with applicable regulations and with optimizing industrial processes for improved efficiency and reduced environmental impacts. Partnering with ENVEA ensures high-value relations through proven solutions that meet regulatory compliance, improve environmental performance, control and assist in reducing costs: - Internationally Certified and Approved solutions - Comprehensive experience of supplying turnkey solutions - Integrated systems to achieve regulatory compliance, with process control and optimisation benefits - Established worldwide service and support network Our worldwide references guarantee a perfect understanding of your needs and ability to manage a vast range of applications, be it air quality monitors measuring the air pollution of cities worldwide, emissions and process optimisation in all industries including waste incinerators, power generation plants, chemical & petrochemical industries, cement plants, glass manufacturing, metal factories, paper mills, engine manufacturers, etc.
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Jan 2020
DEPT® is a Growth Invention company built to help the world’s most ambitious brands grow faster. Operating at the intersection of technology and marketing, our 4,000+ specialists deliver growth invention across Brand & Media, Experience, Commerce, CRM, and Technology & Data. We’re 50|50 tech and marketing, partner-led, and first to move. Clients include Google, Lufthansa, Coach, eBay, and OpenAI. Certified B Corp and Climate Neutral since 2021.
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