Bio

Sophie Pourquéry is a Managing Partner. She has over 20 years’ experience in private equity. She invests particularly in Industry, IT services and digital. Coming from a family of business managers, Sophie was first a banker for 6 years in Corporate Banking and then in Corporate Finance (LBO financing) in the CIC Group. In 2000, she joined the newly created investment fund AtriA Capital Partenaires, which specialises in LBOs for medium-sized and fast-growing companies. She leads more than ten capital investment operations with industrial companies (sanitation, printing, industrial carpentry, etc.) and services (industrial cleaning, building engineering) and has worked in developing networks of specialized distribution or hospitality groups (business seminar centres). In 2011, she joined the Industries and Finance team (now Bee Up Capital) as Investment Manager then Partner and has supported or supports the following groups: Antenne Réunion Télévision, Claire-Sainte-Lizaigne, Calliopé, CDE, Cyllène, Protéines-XTC and more recently the Elen group. She has co-managed Bee Up Capital with Édouard Thomazeau since summer 2018. They have been working together since 2000.