Our Criteria

Entrepreneurs - Our Criteria Print

Geography
BIP focuses on companies in Luxembourg and neighbouring regions - which can mean both companies registered in Luxembourg and neighbouring regions of Germany, France and Belgium, or those doing a substantial proportion of their business in these areas.

Size
Venture Capital: Our investments in pure venture-capital transactions range from a minimum of EUR 2 million to EUR 5 million. In all cases, we invest alongside other venture capital partners or firms.

Buyouts: Preferred investment amounts range from EUR 5 million to EUR 15 million.
Usually, we invest alongside other Private Equity Partners.

Development stage
Venture capital: We are interested in fast growing companies that need to consolidate their equity bases. We concentrate on companies at the development and expansion stages. Investments at seed capital and early start-up levels are done solely through specialist venture-capital firms we have partnered with.

Buyouts: For buyouts, spin-offs and other forms of restructuring, we look for companies with healthy cash flows exellent management teams and clear potential for trans-regional and/or pan European expansion.

Sector
We invest in all sectors of the economy, using a broad classification with three main divisions:

TMT (Telecom, Media, Technology)

Traditional industries

Life sciences & biotechnology

Shared vision
Our objective is to be an important shareholder, but usually with a minority stake. CEOs of investee companies appreciate the value-adding and non-intrusive style of BIP. However, we normally seek board representation whenever we feel our expertise can be useful, rounding out the support available from our extensive network of business relations.

Exit
Since we aim to create value not only for the management teams of our private equity investments but also for our shareholders, we expect to realise our investments in at most 5 to 7 years. This exit is agreed on in advance and may be through a public offering, a trade sale or through a management/employee buyout.

Special cases
If you have a particularly worthwhile project, but which does not meet some or all of our criteria (location, scale, stage of development), we may nonetheless consider an investment as a special case.