Oraxys

Managing Partner Gregory Fayolle leads the financial team alongside Managing Directors Brice Masselot and Simone Pini. Each fund has its own Investment Committee composed of the fund's Strategic Partners and the Private Equity Partners. Day-to-day deal execution is handled by the financial team, with deal-by-deal input from Oraxys's Industrial Team of sector-specific operators.

Oraxys draws on the deep industrial networks of its eight-member Industrial Team — former C-suite executives from Schneider Electric, AkzoNobel, Coca-Cola, and similar firms — and on relationships with European industrial families who are investors in the funds. The firm also maintains a consistent presence at European trade fairs, most recently listing IFAT, Ecomondo, and Enlit Europe on its 2026 calendar.

Neither. Oraxys is a Luxembourg-based private equity manager that runs closed-end Article 8 environmental funds. Its investor base is a group of European industrial families, but the firm itself is not a family office; it operates as an independent manager with a governance structure that includes separate Investment Committees and Advisory Committees for each fund.

Oraxys executes direct equity investments. It does not act as a fund-of-funds allocator. Limited partners invest directly into Oraxys's commingled funds, and the firm can also arrange co-investment opportunities for its investors to increase the financial capacity on a given deal beyond the EUR 20 million per-company guideline.

Oraxys targets established small-to-medium-sized enterprises, requiring positive EBIT and net sales above EUR 10 million. The strategy encompasses buyout, expansion, late-stage growth, reorganization, and restructuring situations — all within the environmental sphere. The firm does not invest in early-stage or pre-revenue companies.

While the firm promotes environmental characteristics under SFDR Article 8 and screens for contributions to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, Oraxys does not publish an explicit exclusion list of conventional sectors. The investment criteria filter for companies whose marketed products or services have a positive impact on nature preservation, resource efficiency, or health — effectively excluding companies without a demonstrable environmental value proposition.

ESG integration is led by Managing Director and ESG Referent Simone Pini. At the portfolio-company level, Oraxys and management jointly set and monitor one to three customized environmental key performance indicators using an in-house benchmarking methodology. The firm's current fund is classified under Article 8 of the SFDR Regulation, obligating pre- and post-investment disclosure of how environmental characteristics are promoted.