Half-day evening forum held annually in Paris, convening French private equity fund managers, institutional investors, family offices, and entrepreneurs for moderated panels and a seated networking dinner, under the auspices of France Invest, the French private capital association.
The Forum des Investisseurs France Invest is the annual gathering of the French private capital industry, organised by France Invest, the professional association of capital investment in France. It brings together fund managers, institutional investors, family offices, entrepreneurs, and public decision-makers for a half-day programme running from late afternoon through the evening. The forum is a member-and-invitation restricted event, not an open-registration conference, and is now in its 13th edition.
The 2026 edition is the 13th in the forum's history. It takes place at the Elysées Biarritz, located at 22–24 rue Quentin Bauchart in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. Specific dates have not been publicly disclosed as of verification. The format runs from 16h30 to 22h00, combining a moderated programme with a seated networking dinner.
Paris anchors the densest stretch of the EMEA private capital circuit, with the autumn concentration from September to November drawing the highest volume of institutional LP and GP gatherings. The Forum des Investisseurs occupies a distinct position within that calendar: it is not a large-format trade event open to accredited delegates, but a controlled-access evening convened by a national industry association for its own membership and their institutional counterparties. That structural difference, a professional association convening its community rather than a commercial publisher selling delegate passes, gives it a different character from the larger Parisian summits on the autumn circuit.
Access is restricted to France Invest member firms and their invited guests. Institutional LPs attend at no cost, which is a deliberate design choice: the forum is oriented toward deepening relationships between French GPs and the institutional investor base, rather than generating delegate revenue. This is reinforced by the half-day format, which concentrates contact time rather than spreading it across a multi-day conference programme. The result is a gathering where all participants have a defined relationship to the French private equity industry, either as practitioners, allocators, or invited public figures.
Programme details beyond the confirmed speakers and panel titles are not publicly documented as of verification. The number of stages, session count, and full speaker list are not disclosed.
The forum does not operate a dedicated B2B matchmaking platform or scheduling application, at least none has been publicly disclosed. The meeting dynamic is structured around the evening format itself: the transition from the panel programme to the networking dinner creates a natural progression from public discussion to private conversation. LP participation is subject to an application reviewed by the organiser, which provides a degree of pre-qualification. The absence of a multi-day schedule means all networking is concentrated into the single evening, with the dinner serving as the primary contact surface.
The 2026 programme is built around four thematic clusters:
Moderation of the panel programme is confirmed for Emmanuelle Duten-Diehl.
The Forum des Investisseurs is the annual flagship gathering of France Invest, the French private capital association. Its primary audience is French-market fund managers who are members of France Invest, institutional LPs allocating to or considering the French private equity market, and invited guests including entrepreneurs and public sector figures. It is a closed professional event, not an open trade conference.
Five profiles are a poor fit for this event. First, international GPs with no active presence or fundraising interest in France: the programme and LP composition are oriented toward the French private capital market specifically. Second, fund managers who are not France Invest members and have no route to an invitation through an existing institutional relationship. Third, allocators primarily focused on strategies outside private equity and private capital (listed equities, fixed income, macro hedge funds) who would find limited thematic overlap. Fourth, delegates seeking intensive pre-scheduled one-on-one meeting programmes of the kind offered by multi-day matchmaking conferences: the half-day format does not support that volume of structured meetings. Fifth, service providers and placement agents expecting an exhibition or stand-based format: no exhibition component has been documented, and access is governed by membership or invitation, not commercial participation.
Commercial conferences generate revenue primarily through delegate passes and sponsor packages, and typically operate open or tiered-access registration. The Forum des Investisseurs is organised by France Invest as a professional association event. Access is member-governed, LP attendance is complimentary, and the pricing structure reflects an objective of convening the community rather than monetising attendance. This shapes the room composition: participants are not self-selected by willingness to pay, but by membership of or invitation into the French private capital industry.
The forum is structured to include LPs who are being introduced to French private capital, not only those with existing allocations. The complimentary access model for institutional investors is designed to lower the barrier to attendance for allocators still forming a view on the French market. The panel on the French PE ecosystem relative to Europe is directly aimed at framing this question. That said, the event's single-evening format limits the depth of introductory engagement compared to a multi-day summit with pre-scheduled meeting programmes.
The Elysées Biarritz is a private event venue located at 22–24 rue Quentin Bauchart in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, a few steps from the Champs-Élysées and close to the Arc de Triomphe. The 8th arrondissement is historically associated with French financial and institutional life, housing numerous asset management firms, law firms, and the offices of major institutional investors. The venue is suited to evening formats combining a panel stage with a seated dinner, which matches the forum's 16h30-to-22h00 programme structure. Its capacity relative to the forum's approximately 500-delegate attendance positions it as an intimate rather than a large-hall setting by Paris event standards.
France Invest is the professional association of the French private capital industry, representing private equity, venture capital, infrastructure, and private debt managers active in France. The association's membership comprises management companies, institutional investors, and associated professionals. It carries out lobbying, research, statistical reporting on the French private capital market, and community-building functions for its membership. The Forum des Investisseurs is its principal annual convening event, complementing France Invest's year-round activity in market data, regulatory engagement, and professional training. The association's founding year, portfolio size in terms of other events, and city of operations are not disclosed in available documentation. Its website serves as both the informational and registration portal for the forum.
The Forum des Investisseurs France Invest is the most direct expression of how a national private capital association uses a single annual evening to consolidate its community: the restricted-access format, the complimentary LP model, and the condensed programme make it less a conference than a structured gathering of record for the French GP and LP universe.
Access to the Forum des Investisseurs is subject to an application reviewed by the organiser. The pricing structure is tiered by participant profile. Institutional investors and LPs attend free of charge. Active member firms of France Invest pay 195 EUR per delegate. Collaborators under the age of 35 from member firms benefit from a 50% reduction, bringing their rate to 97 EUR. Registration is processed through the France Invest website at franceinvest.eu. No separate registration platform has been documented. Sponsor packages and stand pricing are not part of the publicly documented access model, consistent with the absence of an exhibition component.
LP applications are reviewed by the France Invest organising team before access is confirmed. The review process is not described in detail in publicly available documentation, but the advance-scheduling mechanism indicates that LP participants are pre-qualified rather than accepted on a first-come basis. Institutional investors and family offices interested in attending should apply through the France Invest website and expect a confirmation process rather than immediate registration.
The fee covers attendance at the full half-day programme, including the moderated panels, keynote testimonials, and the networking dinner. It applies to active member firms of France Invest. The under-35 rate of 97 EUR applies to individual collaborators at those member firms. Non-member firms and non-invited service providers do not have a published registration pathway; access is not available through standard open registration.
Specific dates for the 2026 edition have not been publicly disclosed as of the verification date for this fiche. The edition is confirmed as the 13th in the series, and the venue, Elysées Biarritz in Paris, is confirmed. Programme details including confirmed speakers and panel themes are available through France Invest communications. The France Invest website at franceinvest.eu is the primary source for updated scheduling information.
No official networking application or dedicated pre-event meeting scheduling tool has been documented for the Forum des Investisseurs. The format relies on the structured dinner and evening programme to create contact between participants. LP applications are reviewed in advance, which implies a degree of organiser-facilitated matching, but no technology platform for bilateral scheduling has been publicly disclosed.
| Official website | https://www.franceinvest.eu/ |
| Register | https://www.franceinvest.eu/ |
| Programme | not disclosed |