Venture capital firm

Initiative Capital

Independent investment fund in France helping small and medium businesses through temporary asset buy-backs

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Initiative Capital, written on its site as Capital Initiative, is a fund in France that provides alternative financing to small and medium-sized firms. It has done so for more than twenty years. Its founder is the accountant René Hans.

What Initiative Capital does

Temporary asset buy-back: known as Rachat Temporaire d'Actifs, it lets a struggling firm keep going by selling an asset and buying it back later.
Property buy-outs: the fund says this has allowed some business owners to stay in their premises.
Regional expansion: it encourages local branches so more firms can use the scheme.

Customers and markets

Small and medium-sized businesses in France in difficulty. One example on the site is an aerospace parts maker that needed to finance a building extension for new production equipment after a bank partner would fund only the machines.

Key facts

Based in: France
Founder: René Hans
Experience: more than 20 years
Positioning: describes itself as an independent, made in France fund

Summary written by TrustList from the business's own published information, Oct 2026.

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Initiative Capital is ranked on 1 TrustList ranking at #15.

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#15of 83
Paris
Of the top 65 here, 13 also cover partners and 7 also cover private equity; 21 also work in London and 15 also work in New York City.
Behind Vendis Capital, ahead of Scientipole Ile-de-France Capital.

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