Auriga Partners

Auriga Partners is a French venture capital management company that has been operating since 1998. It works with entrepreneurs from the moment a business is created, through each stage of growth, up to a sale to another company or a stock market listing.

The firm describes itself as an early pioneer of venture capital in France. It has since widened its scope and now acts as a multi-specialist investor, bringing together particular areas of expertise around chosen themes or territories.

Services

• Venture capital: funding and support for young companies from their creation onwards.
• Growth-stage backing: continued involvement as the business develops.
• Exit support: help reaching a merger, acquisition or public listing.
• Thematic and regional investing: specialist teams focused on future-facing sectors or territories.
• Listed and unlisted holdings: investments in both private and publicly traded companies.

Customers and markets

Entrepreneurs at every stage of building a company. The firm says it draws on collective expertise and a belief in innovation, whether that is new ways of using existing technology or genuinely disruptive change.

Key facts

• Founded: 1998
• Based in: France
• Approach: collective expertise shared across specialist themes