Founded in 2010, AVISA PARTNERS is one of France's leading firms specialising in economic intelligence and cybersecurity. Avisa operates in three key business areas: online influential communication and anti-counterfeiting operations, cybersecurity and international affairs.
Led by Matthieu CREUX, AVISA PARTNERS has offices in Brussels, London and Paris and already generates more than half of its revenues in international markets. To accelerate its international development, the Group is currently in the process of opening an office in Washington.
Advised by ADVISO PARTNERS, the shareholders decided to welcome RAISE INVESTISSEMENT as a minority shareholder to enable the Group to sustain its robust growth and seize acquisition opportunities in France and internationally. The Group's aim is to become a European leader in economic intelligence in the medium term. RIVES CROISSANCE completes the financing round.
Following the transaction, AVISA PARTNERS' management will retain a 75% controlling interest.
RAISE INVESTISSEMENT, which is part of the RAISE group, is an investment company that provides growth capital for midcaps with strong development potential. Under the leadership of co-founders Gonzague DE BLIGNIERES and Clara GAYMARD, in five years the RAISE group has become a virtuous ecosystem, supporting French enterprises at every stage of their development.
"The economic intelligence sector and its practices are undergoing significant change. The management of risk - whether cyber, regulatory, competition or reputational risk - as well as anti-fraud and anti-piracy operations, require increasingly technical expertise and international reach. AVISA PARTNERS has innovated aggressively in these areas, enabling it to triple in size in just four years. Welcoming RAISE INVESTISSEMENT and RIVES CROISSANCE on board as shareholders is a way to meet AVISA PARTNERS' need for internal restructuring and entrepreneurial support for its managers so that it can actively participate in consolidation in the economic intelligence sector. The aim is to create a European leader able to hold its own against the EI heavyweights of the English-speaking world and certain Israeli pure players in the cybersecurity arena." - Matthieu CREUX, Founding manager of AVISA PARTNERS
"We are pleased to have supported AVISA PARTNERS in this new stage of its development. Having welcomed financial investors on board, the Group can pursue its strong growth and seize many external growth opportunities to become a European leader." - Marc LEBRUN, Managing Director at ADVISO PARTNERS
