a long-term horizon

Rediscovering the meaning of VC: funding impact with patient and efficient capital

Private equity as it has evolved has shown its limitations:

- The need to return capital over a given timeframe means choosing companies with short-term potential VS disruptive innovations.

- Varying exit horizons sometimes lead to a lack of alignment among stakeholders, with deleterious effects on the development of investee companies.

- Added pressure is put on founders to sell earlier or find new funding, which often has a negative impact on the company.

- Finally, many funds adopt a mimetic approach, choosing to minimize their risk by replicating past successes. As a result, investment in sectors and technologies that are essential to the zero-carbon transition is lacking.

Our ambition: to take yesterday's models and adapt them to today's needs.

GreenTech is unlike any other tech sector. Sustainable change means systemic change.

Disruptive innovations in fields such as low-carbon energy require sustained R&D efforts, with generally longer proof-of-concept phases.

They involve rethinking the concepts governing the investment business, inventing new instruments and creating new coalitions.

As opposed to growth at any price without concern for capital efficiency, another funding method is needed, over the long term and without any forced exits.

Asterion's Evergreen vision

A high-performance investment for all stakeholders

Patient capital means efficient capital

We act as a long-term lead investor, maintaining our pro-rata share in Series A and B investments throughout their growth and scaleups.

A comprehensive approach to what makes a startup successful

Our approach allows us to build a long-term relationship between founders and operator angels. This vision gives founders considerable peace of mind, as they can look far ahead into the future.

A flexible model for angels

Thanks to its innovative SPV model, Asterion allows investors both to choose which start-ups to invest in and to offer them greater liquidity.

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