A half-day members forum held each spring in Paris, gathering 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 Forum des Investisseurs France Invest is the annual gathering of the French private capital industry, organised by France Invest, the national association of private equity and venture capital fund managers. Held each spring in Paris, it brings together member management companies, institutional investors, family offices, and invited guests for a structured afternoon-into-evening programme of panels and dinner networking. The 2026 edition is the thirteenth.
The 2026 forum takes place on 12 March at the Elysées Biarritz, a private venue at 22–24 rue Quentin Bauchart in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. The programme runs from 16h30 to 22h00, combining moderated panels with confirmed testimonies and a dinner networking session. No edition theme has been publicly announced. With four confirmed speakers, the programme is deliberately concentrated rather than broad.
The forum occupies an early-March slot, placing it among the first major LP–GP convening moments of the spring season in France. It follows the winter events on the French Riviera and precedes the denser May–June conference cluster. As a members-only format, it does not compete directly with open-access conferences; it operates as an internal industry moment, with the institutional investor audience addressed as a guest rather than a paying delegate.
The 2026 programme is structured around four thematic areas:
The moderator confirmed for the 2026 edition is Emmanuelle Duten-Diehl.
The forum runs as a single-block half-day event, from 16h30 to 22h00, with the following components:
The event does not include an exhibition floor, sponsor stands, or a B2B matchmaking application. Advance scheduling is available, with LP applications reviewed directly by the organiser. The number of stages, specific session durations, and room configuration are not publicly disclosed.
The forum does not operate a digital matchmaking platform. Networking is concentrated in two moments: the period between panels during the programme, and the dinner session from approximately 20h00 onwards. LP applications are reviewed by France Invest before access is granted, which means the attendee list carries a degree of pre-selection that informal conversations benefit from. No advance meeting-scheduling tool is documented in publicly available information.
Self-reported by organiser
| Total participants | 500 |
| LP participants | not disclosed |
| GP participants | not disclosed |
| AUM represented | not disclosed |
| Confirmed speakers | 4 |
| International visitor share | not disclosed |
The Forum des Investisseurs is a closed, members-and-guests event organised by France Invest, the representative association of French private capital. Unlike commercial conferences open to any paying delegate, attendance requires either active membership in France Invest (for fund managers) or an invitation and application review (for LPs and other guests). The content is shaped by the association's own policy and market agenda, not by a commercial programme committee.
Several profiles are a poor fit for this event. Fund managers not affiliated with France Invest cannot register through the standard member route and would need an explicit invitation, which is not guaranteed. Non-French GPs with no French LP or portfolio company relationships will find the programme heavily oriented toward the domestic market and its regulatory context. Delegates seeking a dense B2B meeting schedule with pre-arranged one-on-ones will find the format insufficient: there is no matchmaking platform, and meeting volume depends on informal dinner conversations. International LPs with no existing relationship to the French PE market are unlikely to find the attendee pool relevant to their allocation priorities. Service providers and placement agents not already embedded in the France Invest network face unclear access conditions and should contact the organiser directly before assuming entry.
The 2026 programme covers four areas: the positioning of French private equity relative to European peers; GP-level scale and consolidation pressures; secondaries and liquidity in a constrained distribution environment; and AI as a driver of entrepreneurial competitiveness. These themes reflect the current fundraising and liquidity tensions across the broader private capital market, translated into a French domestic context.
The organiser reports 500 participants for the 2026 edition. The audience combines France Invest member fund managers on the GP side with institutional investors and family offices on the LP side. Precise LP and GP counts are not disclosed. The format is restricted to members and invited guests, so the composition reflects the France Invest membership base rather than the open market.
The Elysées Biarritz is a private reception venue located at 22–24 rue Quentin Bauchart in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, a few minutes from the Champs-Élysées and the George V metro station. It is a classic Parisian hôtel particulier format, suited to seated dinners and moderated evening receptions rather than large-scale conference staging. The configuration aligns with the forum's half-day structure: panel discussions in a theatre or salon arrangement, followed by a dinner networking session. The surrounding neighbourhood, dense with asset management offices and banking institutions, reinforces the professional character of the gathering and facilitates side conversations before and after the official programme.
France Invest is the French professional association of private capital investment. It represents management companies active in private equity, venture capital, infrastructure, private debt, and real assets in France. The association acts as the collective voice of the industry toward regulators, public institutions, and European bodies, and publishes market statistics and position papers on behalf of its members. The Forum des Investisseurs is its flagship annual convening event, structured as a member benefit rather than a commercial conference product. France Invest's founding year and the size of its event portfolio beyond the Forum des Investisseurs are not publicly disclosed in available information. Its organiser type is classified as a commercial publisher in the source data, though its primary identity is that of an industry association.
The Forum des Investisseurs is the closest thing the French private capital industry has to an annual general assembly: a closed room where member GPs and invited LPs share the same dinner table, and where France Invest's institutional weight gives the panels a policy dimension that commercial conferences rarely achieve at this scale.
The forum operates a tiered pricing structure based on attendee profile. Institutional LPs attend at no charge, as the primary audience the forum is designed to attract. Active member management companies of France Invest pay 195 EUR per delegate. Collaborators under 35 years of age at member firms are eligible for a 50 percent reduction, bringing the rate to 97 EUR. Access is application-based for all categories; LP applications are reviewed by the organiser before confirmation. Registration is handled through the France Invest website. Sponsor and exhibition rates are not applicable given the format, and no separate registration platform is used.
| Official website | https://www.franceinvest.eu/ |
| Register | https://www.franceinvest.eu/ |
| Programme | not disclosed |
The event is described as restricted to members and invited guests. LPs and institutional investors can apply for access through the organiser; their applications are reviewed before confirmation. Non-member GPs and service providers without an existing France Invest relationship should contact the organiser directly, as the standard registration pathway applies to active member firms.
Institutional LPs attend free of charge. Active member fund managers pay 195 EUR. Collaborators under 35 at member firms qualify for a 50 percent reduction at 97 EUR. No pricing is documented for non-members, placement agents, or service providers.
The working language of the forum is English, according to available information, despite the French institutional context and domestic focus of the programme.
The forum runs from 16h30 to 22h00 on 12 March 2026, covering panels and testimonies in the first part of the evening and a dinner networking session in the closing hours.