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NextStage is a private equity fund manager (venture capital funds (“FCPR”), local investment funds (“FIP”) and innovation investment funds (“FCPI”)) certified by the Autorité des Marchés Financiers.

As committed investors, we provide private equity capital to support the growth of Champion SMEs in France and elsewhere in Europe.

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NextStage invests €8.2 million in ACR Group

NextStage invests €8.2 million to support ACR Group’s growth. ACR is the leading French specialist in automobile braking and ignition replacement parts distribution. ACR Group has two business units: ACR System for braking and suspension parts, and Autec for ignition and charging systems (starters, alternators). With c. €40 million in revenues, ACR Group benefits from a strong reputation in the market, based on the variety of its products, its partnership with major global manufacturers, the team’s excellent technical skill set and a supply chain organisation guaranteeing very short delivery times. This positioning makes it today the only player able to offer such a unique service in the French market.

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KXEN SECURES $8 MILLION IN SERIES D FUNDING LED BY NEXTSTAGE

KXEN, the leading provider of data mining automation solutions, today announced that it has closed $8 million (€6.6 million) funding to further accelerate its growth and international expansion. The round was led by NextStage, which provided $4.5 million (€3.7 million), and included participation from existing investors XAnge Capital, Sofinnova Ventures, Saints Capital and Motorola Ventures.

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Created in 1998, KXEN was recently named a leader in predictive analytics and data mining by Forrester Research and was rated highest for commercial deployments of social network analytics by Frost & Sullivan. KXEN helps customers run their businesses better by providing insight into all aspects of the customer lifecycle. KXEN’s predictive analytics puts a spotlight on which customers to target and which products to sell.

“This additional funding is a great vote of confidence in KXEN’s vision of how companies can optimize their business by using predictive analytics. We are thrilled to see the concrete benefits our customers are getting and plan to use this funding to invest even more heavily to accelerate our growth and vertical market development,” said John Ball, CEO of KXEN.

“KXEN is a leader in the fast growing market of predictive analytics with an impressive list of blue chip customers. KXEN has all the ingredients we look for in an investment: unique technology, happy customers, a strong management team and a fast growing market,” said Hervé de Beublain, President of NextStage.

NextStage reaches an agreement to exit its investment stake in Gruau Group

NextStage has signed an agreement to sell its stake in Gruau Group. It invested in Gruau via the NextStage Entreprise FCPR I fund in July 2005 and has achieved a multiple of 2.36x its initial investment. The exit should be finalized by the end of March.

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Gruau Group was founded in 1889, and is a manufacturer and coachbuilder specializing in the manufacture of bodywork for light utility vehicles (LUV – less than 3.5 metric tons). Its purpose is to provide the right global transport or mobility solution to help each LUV-using customer to achieve optimized business performance. Gruau is a multi-specialist European leader organized around three activities: manufacturing-coachbuilding, short-run manufacturing and clean transport solutions. Gruau Group has manufacturing capabilities throughout its entire territory and has a commercial presence in more than 125 points of service in Europe. With 2009 sales of €130 million, it carries out bodywork on more than 33,000 vehicles annually, and has nearly 1,000 employees compared with 600 in 2004.

Gruau Group is NextStage Entreprises FCPR I’s second divestment. The fund was launched in 2004 and has invested in 15 unlisted SMEs. Through its investment in Gruau Group, the NextStage investment team has provided active support to the family group led by Patrick Gruau. It has contributed to its development and served as a catalyst for its growth, boosting it to a leadership position in its market. In particular, it has provided its expertise in managing the company’s working capital needs and has helped it to make acquisitions. NextStage’s initial July 2005 investment enabled Gruau Group to break ground in the electric vehicle market, a key activity in the Group’s future growth. From 2005 to 2008, Gruau’s revenues grew briskly.

Although it was affected by the 2009 recession, the company should rebound in 2010, thanks especially to its positioning in hybrid energy and electric vehicles. In this regard, in November 2009, Gruau signed an industrial agreement with Italy’s Micro-Vett for electrification of Fiat’s entire range of utility vehicles – further proof of Gruau’s leadership in clean-energy utility vehicles.

NextStage is investing 2M€ in Resto'in

www.resto-in.com
French leader of home restoration

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