Idinvest Partners, a Paris, France-based venture capital firm, has appointed Alban Wyniecki as an Investment Director.
Wyniecki will provide strategic direction and oversight of Idinvest’s Growth Capital Fund II, which recently held its first close at €250m, and invested in Vestiaire Collective, an online e-commerce marketplace for used clothes.
Before joining Idinvest in November 2016, he spent two years at Partech Ventures where he sourced and executed investments in Europe and the US. Prior to that, Wyniecki worked at Dassault Systèmes where he led the CATIA Strategy team and then the 3DS Group Corporate Strategy team from 2008 to 2014.
Here, Wyniecki managed the 3DS technical partners’ portfolio, the 3DS group and the brands corporate planning efforts, closing over 10 M&A deals.
He holds a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan (France) and is an alumnus of HEC Entrepreneurs (France).
Led by Christophe Bavière, CEO/Managing Partner, and Benoist Grossmann, Managing Partner, Idinvest is a pan-European private equity firm focused on the mid-market segment having developed several complementary areas of expertise including investments in innovative European start-ups, primary, secondary and mezzanine investments in unlisted European companies, and private equity consulting.
Founded under the name AGF Private Equity in 1997, Idinvest Partners was formerly part of Allianz until 2010 when it became an independent firm. It has more than €7 billion under management.
FinSMEs
10/02/2017