Philippe Charquet
Managing Partner @ Generis Capital Partners
Paris, France
Philippe Charquet is a startup investor at Generis Capital Partners in Paris. Philippe Charquet joined Generis Capital in 2011. Generis is a VC manager, backed by prominent family offices. It was set to invest into European SME’s. Generis currently manages €120m AUM. Limited partners are Tier 1 financial institutions (40% of total) and retail investors (60%) managed via European retail banks. Separately, Philippe presentlyserves as a non-executive on several boards including as a member of the supervisory board and of the audit committee of IDI, a listed PE fund with €6b+ AUM (Paris).Prior to Voltaire and Generis, Philippe had been a Managing Partner at Tempo Capital (London) since 2006. Tempo is Private Equity manager of Secondary Direct assets with €200m AUM, deployed into 4 funds, with an institutional LP base.Philippe is the former President and Managing Partner, starting in 2003, of Viventures Partners, the former corporate venture capital arm of Vivendi Universal, subsequent to its sale by Vivendi to a group of US investors. Viventures Partners had 3 technology funds under management with over €350m AUM, 35+ portfolio companies, a team of 21 FTE and 20+ institutional LPs worldwide. In parallel with Viventures, Philippe was also the Chairman of the Board of Sandoz FF Financial Services (Nyon - Switzerland), a Private Equity Fund sponsored by the Sandoz Foundation.Before Viventures, Philippe was the Founder and CEO of RQDI, a company that provided financial and strategic advisory services for European high-tech investors and funds. Main clients of the company included Groupe Arnault, CM-CIC, Carlyle Internet Partners and Hambrecht & Quist.Prior to RQDI, Philippe was the Founder and CEO of MCM Intermarket Services, based in Moscow and Paris until 1994. MCM was a correspondent of Banque Lazard in Russia and provided consultancy and financial services involving transactions in commercial debt, brokerage and structuring of barter operations, heading a team of 20 staff. His initial experience was in IT and banking with Accenture.Philippe is 51 years old, holds an MSc from Ecole Polytechnique, Paris where he majored in Applied Mathematics with elective in Finance and Economics. He and his wife reside in Paris, France. Philippe is/has been involved in several associative and entrepreneurship initiatives (Revue des Deux Mondes, Club Esprit d’Entreprise and Fondation Concorde) and has been a speaker at HBS and Ecole Polytechnique. He was a part time Scientific Editor for the French educational TV channel “La Cinquième”.Philippe holds an MSc from Ecole Polytechnique, Paris
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About Generis Capital Partners
Generis Capital Partners is a management company approved by the AMF, whose mission is to provide financing to SMEs in the form of capital contribution or the form of bonds. Generis Capital Partners is a crossroads between the banking business and the business of traditional venture capital. Generis Capital Partners provides innovativefinancing and technical pioneers to best meet the needs of SMEs and investors. Thanks to its technology and a diversified and balanced allocation of assets, Generis Capital Partners has the objective to provide better protection to investors while retaining the possibility of strong gains linked to capital investment.
Generis Capital Partners Contacts
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Damien Launoy
Investment Manager
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Philippe Charquet
Managing Partner
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Pierre-Henri Delaage
Venture Partner
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Thibaut de Roux
Managing Partner, Founder
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