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Yotta Capital Partners
Yotta Capital Partners is a Paris-based private equity firm running two SFDR Article 9 funds that back French industrial SMEs through €5-15M equity...
Yotta Capital Partners
Yotta Capital Partners launched in 2020 with its first fund, Yotta Smart Industry, deploying development capital and buyout financing into French manufacturing SMEs that reconcile industrial growth with carbon reduction. The founding team unites four managing partners — Vincent Deltrieu, Christophe Gégout, Xavier Herrmann, and Benoît Perrot — who previously shaped portfolios at Innovacom, CEA Investissement, ACE Management, and Thales Corporate Ventures respectively. The firm operates from a single headquarters in Paris. The strategy splits across two vehicles that share a €5-15 million ticket band and a focus on France. Yotta Smart Industry (2020 vintage) targets buyout and expansion-stage industrial operators, while Yotta Growth Industry (2024 vintage) pursues growth-stage companies bringing technology solutions to manufacturing. The portfolio stretches across precision mechanics, fiber-optic components, integrated textiles, medical furniture, and metrology systems — names include DBC, Folan, Chamatex, Villard, Eldim, and SEDI-ATI under Smart Industry. Growth Industry holdings include Coat, a bio-polymer producer replacing petroleum-based paint binders, and Scintil Photonics, which raised $58 million in a late-2025 round led by Yotta to scale integrated photonics for AI data centers. The firm also led a €10 million round into German battery-storage company SAX Power in December 2025, signaling an expansion beyond France. A 13-person investment team operates with a dual financial-industrial culture — each managing partner carries at least two decades of experience across private equity and operating roles in sectors such as aerospace, defense, semiconductors, and energy. The firm has not publicly disclosed aggregate assets under management. In early 2026, portfolio company Villard, a manufacturer of modular medical furniture, opened a new growth chapter with fresh backing from Yotta alongside BNP Paribas Développement, Ouest Croissance, and UNEXO. Yotta’s structural differentiator is its exclusive coupling of SFDR Article 9 classification — the European Union’s highest sustainability disclosure tier — with a mandate confined to industrial SMEs. Both funds carry the Article 9 label, requiring measurable environmental and social performance alongside financial returns. The firm embeds an ESG director within its investment team and partners with Carbone 4 for carbon-footprint expertise, making decarbonization an instrument of competitive positioning rather than a parallel impact sleeve.
General information
Firm type
Private Equity
Year founded
2020
AUM
Undisclosed
Location
Region
Europe
Country
France
City
Paris
Corporate office
Paris, France
Principals
Vincent Deltrieu
Managing Partner
Christophe Gégout
Managing Partner
Xavier Herrmann
Managing Partner
Benoît Perrot
Managing Partner
Daniel Javed
Partner
Sector focus
Frequently asked questions
Who runs investment decisions at Yotta Capital Partners?
The firm is governed by four managing partners — Vincent Deltrieu, Christophe Gégout, Xavier Herrmann, and Benoît Perrot — each with separate institutional histories at Innovacom, CEA Investissement, ACE Management, and Thales Corporate Ventures. Partner Daniel Javed leads M&A and corporate development execution. The team operates with a collective decision-making structure typical of a founder-led partnership, with no single CIO identified.
Does Yotta Capital Partners disclose its assets under management?
No. Yotta has operated two funds — Yotta Smart Industry (2020) and Yotta Growth Industry (2024) — but has not publicly released aggregate AUM or per-fund sizes. Equity tickets are consistently communicated at €5-15 million per transaction.
What does Yotta’s SFDR Article 9 classification mean in practice?
Both Yotta funds carry Article 9 status under the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation, meaning they must demonstrate that every investment contributes to a measurable environmental or social objective. For Yotta, that objective is carbon-emission reduction within industrial operations. The firm employs an in-house ESG director and uses Carbone 4 as an external partner to quantify and validate carbon-footprint improvements.
Does Yotta invest outside of France?
The primary geographic mandate is France, consistent with the firm’s stated goal of reindustrializing French regions. However, Yotta Growth Industry led a €10 million funding round for the German energy-storage company SAX Power in December 2025, suggesting the growth vehicle may selectively underwrite deals elsewhere in Europe.
How does Yotta source deals, and does it co-invest alongside other GPs?
Sourcing draws on the founding team’s deep ties to France’s technology-transfer ecosystem — Christophe Gégout’s CEA tenure and Vincent Deltrieu’s work with industrial research organizations are cited as origination channels. The firm regularly co-invests: the Villard transaction involved BNP Paribas Développement, Ouest Croissance, and UNEXO, and historical holdings have been syndicated across regional and sector-focused French GPs.
Does Yotta operate as a family office or a third-party fund manager?
Yotta Capital Partners is a third-party asset manager, not a family office. It raises blind-pool funds and reports to limited partners, structured as a French société de gestion with FPCI vehicles.
Which sectors does Yotta explicitly avoid?
Yotta’s mandate is positively defined — French industrial SMEs where carbon efficiency can drive competitive advantage — rather than negatively screened. The firm has not published an explicit exclusion list, but its portfolio contains no consumer internet, fintech, or pure-play software companies, consistent with its industrial thesis.
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