Omnes Capital

Omnes runs four separate investment strategies under one partnership: renewable energy through the Capenergie fund series; sustainable cities via dedicated real-asset vehicles like Mégalithe and Omniprom; deeptech, targeting European frontier technology; and a co-investment program that writes minority checks alongside lead GPs in sustainable buyout and growth deals. Each strategy has its own fund vehicles, investment committees, and sector-specialist teams — a structure closer to a multi-boutique than a commingled generalist fund.

The firm is led by its six managing partners: Serge Savasta, Marc-Philippe Botte, Michel de Lempdes, Michael Pollan, Serge Rakovitch, and Philippe Trolez. Each strategy operates with a dedicated investment committee drawn from this senior group, which ensures sector-specific decision-making while maintaining firm-wide risk and portfolio oversight from the partnership level.

Omnes is an independent asset manager. It was originally part of Crédit Agricole’s private equity arm before the management team executed a spinout in 2012. The firm now manages capital on behalf of over 100 institutional investors, primarily European pension funds, insurers, and sovereign entities, alongside family offices and high-net-worth individuals.

Yes — the firm’s dedicated co-investment program, launched in 2008, has raised €780 million to take minority positions in sustainable private equity deals led by other sponsors. This program operates across Europe and North America, offering limited partners a way to access specific energy-transition and deeptech deals without committing to Omnes’s blind-pool sector funds.

The deeptech team invests from seed through growth, with confirmed positions spanning early-stage companies like Proxima Fusion (a Max Planck Institute spinout developing stellarator fusion technology) and Quandela (quantum photonics), alongside later-stage platforms such as The Exploration Company, which builds modular orbital vehicles. The strategy has €650 million in assets under management and concentrates on European-founded companies with hard-science intellectual property.

Omnes traces its roots to Crédit Lyonnais Venture Capital, founded in 1999, which later became Crédit Agricole Private Equity after the bank acquired Crédit Lyonnais. In 2012, the management team bought the firm out from Crédit Agricole and rebranded it Omnes Capital, making it an independent partnership. The firm retains no ownership link to the bank but benefits from the origination network built during its time inside the group.

Omnes concentrates its capital across four thematic strategies — renewable energy, sustainable cities, deeptech, and co-investment — and the firm’s public materials do not show exposure to sectors outside the energy-transition mandate, such as traditional oil and gas extraction, consumer internet, or generalist buyouts. The partnership focuses exclusively on investments it can tie to its stated environmental thesis.