Invus Group

About Invus Group

Private equity firm Invus is essentially the family office of Eric Wittouck, a descendant of Belgian sugar barons who now lives in Monaco. We make equity investments in both private and public companies. Given the size of our capital under management and the handful of investments we make each year, each new investment needs to have the potential to move the needle on the full portfolio. We make both majority and minority investments, as long as we are aligned with the owner-managers and the investment meets our absolute value creation threshold. We are comfortable buying both primary and secondary shares to clean up the cap table or help the founders take some chips off the table as they commit to a long-term value creation strategy. There's no single formula for the type of opportunity that gets us excited, but they often have the following ingredients: - Owner-managers with a shared vision and passion about the business - A business with a real competitive advantage, or a vision for how it can be built - Strategy based on driving sustained business performance, not on financial engineering - Current owners who care about who they pass the business on to - Revenues of over $5 million-though if the target business model is clear, we are comfortable with companies that have not yet turned profitable We have invested in companies across a wide range of industries including consumer products and services, food, specialty retail, software, biotech, medical devices and products, and professional services. We invest in companies across the world with a focus on the US, Europe, China and India, leveraging our flexible structure and the international background of our team. Invus Group has offices in New York, Paris, and Hong Kong.