Investment strategies
Inflexion takes a diversified approach, with several distinct investment strategies:
1. buyout fund: this fund targets well-established companies with strong management teams and significant growth potential. Inflexion generally takes majority stakes, working closely with management teams to maximize value creation.
2. Partnership Capital: this fund is designed for companies seeking to raise capital without ceding majority control. Inflexion takes minority stakes and contributes its strategic and operational expertise to help these companies achieve their growth objectives.
3 Enterprise Fund: this fund focuses on investments in medium-sized companies, often in high-growth sectors. The aim is to help these companies reach crucial stages in their development.
Target sectors
Inflexion invests in a variety of sectors, with particular expertise in the following areas:
- Business services: companies offering a range of B2B services, often with a recurring business model.
- Technology: investments in innovative technology companies, often with a strong digital component.
- Healthcare: medical and life sciences companies offering essential products and services.
- Business services: companies providing a range of B2B services, often with a recurring business model.
- Consumer: companies in the retail, consumer goods and leisure sectors.
- Industry: investments in industrial and manufacturing companies, often with a technological or innovation component.
Value Creation
Inflexion 's approach is based on active support and close collaboration with its portfolio companies. Key areas of value creation include :
- Mergers and acquisitions (M&A): accelerate growth and expansion through strategic and transformational acquisitions.
- International expansion: helping companies expand into new geographic markets worldwide, either organically or through mergers and acquisitions.
- Digital transformation: harnessing technology, as well as data, analytics and generative AI to improve a company's competitiveness and increase efficiency.
- Commercial improvements: optimize a company's go-to-market and pricing strategies, as well as its supply chain and commercial function, to improve profitability.
- Talent and network: ensuring that the right governance structures and talent are in place to support a company's growth.
- ESG (Environment, Social and Governance): helping companies to become the most sustainable version of themselves.
Inflexion by the numbers *
- 11 billion under management
- 123 companies supported
- 1.3 billion in combined EBITDA for its current portfolio
- 44,000 employees in its portfolio
- Over 170 employees in 9 international offices
- 44% female employees
- 3.4x total return on realized performance
- 67 exits
*As of July 25, 2024
John Hartz is co-founder and managing partner ofInflexion. In an exclusive interview with Altaroc, he presents the firm in detail.
