About Gimv About Gimv About Gimv

About Gimv

Gimv forms fruitful partnerships with ambitious entrepreneurs and management teams focused on sustainable growth and value creation. 

Gimv's foundations

  • Over 40 years of experience in building leading companies

  • The finest knowledged and networked people

  • A solid balance sheet enabling  a flexible long-term vision

  • A strong local presence combined with an international perspective

  • Involved responsible shareholder

  • A forward-looking mindset

Gimv's investment criteria

  • Ambitious and innovative companies with a solid market position and strong growth potential.

  • Small to medium-sized companies with capital requirements of EUR 5 to 75 million.

  • Companies headquartered in the Benelux region, France or DACH countries.

  • Companies with strong management and a clear corporate vision of social added value.

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Companies tackling societal challenges ... Companies tackling societal challenges ... Companies tackling societal challenges ...

Companies tackling societal challenges ...

Sustainable food and well-being

  • Rapidly growing population with increasing need of safe, environmentally friendly food production
  • Focus on well-being

Electrification & energy transition

  • The road to net zero
  • Need for significant investment in infrastructure
Sustainable food
energy transition
Digitalisation
Ageing population

Digitalisation and automation

  • Rapid and persistent technological change
  • Necessary transition to a digital essence

Health and demographics

  • Ageing population, a growing awareness of health issues and increasing consumer behaviour
  • Accelerated shift to less costintensive healthcare options (outpatient, virtual)
... can count on Gimv as their partner for sustainable growth ... can count on Gimv as their partner for sustainable growth ... can count on Gimv as their partner for sustainable growth

... can count on Gimv as their partner for sustainable growth

An active shareholder with engaged, specialised and experienced investment teams

We forge fruitful partnerships with companies and ambitious management teams through Gimv’s five strategic investment platforms: Consumer, Healthcare, Life Sciences, Smart Industries and Sustainable Cities. By using various growth levers such as internationalisation, innovation, revenue growth, digitalisation, operational excellence or strategic buy-and-build pathways, we work together to build sector leaders through sustainable growth. Our portfolio companies have access to our dedicated and experienced multi-disciplinary teams with deep sector knowledge, all with a local presence close to the entrepreneurs combined with an international outlook.

A flexible partner with a solid balance sheet


Gimv invests directly in companies, mainly with the equity on its balance sheet. With its strong balance sheet and permanent access to long-term capital, Gimv can act flexibly as an evergreen partner. This flexibility also translates into a wide range of investment structures (buyout, growth or venture capital for the life sciences sector), through both majority and minority holdings. This allows us to address each portfolio company’s specific needs.

With continuous attention to sustainability


Gimv has fully integrated sustainability – or ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) – into how it operates and invests. The dialogue between Gimv’s teams and the management of our portfolio companies on sustainability is data-driven, helping the companies to identify targeted priorities and set targets to be achieved together during Gimv’s period as a shareholder. By keeping its finger on the pulse of regulatory and other sustainability developments, Gimv aims to be a guide for its portfolio companies, pointing them in the right direction when and where necessary or useful.