Gimv is a European investment company with experience in private equity and venture capital. The company is listed on Euronext Brussels. Gimv currently manages around EUR 2.0 billion of assets (including third party funds).

Gimv undertakes buyouts and provides growth capital

Growth capital

Growth capital is a type of private equity investment, most often a minority investment, in relatively mature companies that are looking for capital to expand or restructure operations, enter new markets or finance a significant acquisition without a change of control of the business.Companies...

 to established companies. Local teams in Belgium, France, The Netherlands and Germany concentrate on these activities. Gimv makes venture capital investments in high-tech sectors through its teams specialised in Life Sciences, Technology and Cleantech.

Gimv launched the DG Infra+ fund to undertake investments in infrastructure projects in the Benelux. For growth capital investments in Russia, Gimv entered into a joint venture with KBC Private Equity.

Gimv was founded by the Flemish government

Flemish government

The Flemish Government is the executive branch of the Flemish Community and the Flemish Region. It consists of up to a maximum of eleven ministers, chosen by the Flemish Parliament...

 in 1980 to provide capital

Financial capital

Financial capital can refer to money used by entrepreneurs and businesses to buy what they need to make their products or provide their services or to that sector of the economy based on its operation, i.e. retail, corporate, investment banking, etc....

 to the Flemish

Flanders

Flanders is the community of the Flemings but also one of the institutions in Belgium, and a geographical region located in parts of present-day Belgium, France and the Netherlands. "Flanders" can also refer to the northern part of Belgium that contains Brussels, Bruges, Ghent and Antwerp...

 industry.

See also

• Biotech Fund Flanders
  Biotech Fund Flanders
  The Biotech Fund Flanders was founded by the Flemish government in 1994 as an instrument to support the creation of new companies, explicitly in biotechnology. It provides venture capital to biotech companies in Flanders...
  
  
• Venture capital
  Venture capital
  Venture capital is financial capital provided to early-stage, high-potential, high risk, growth startup companies. The venture capital fund makes money by owning equity in the companies it invests in, which usually have a novel technology or business model in high technology industries, such as...
  
  
• Flanders Interuniversity Institute of Biotechnology (VIB)