Ardian
ardian.com Direct + LP
Ardian is a global diversified private markets firm providing investment solutions and customized strategies across private equity, real assets, and credit. It manages or advises $200 billion in assets, with offices worldwide.
Ardian is a private equity firm headquartered in Paris, France, founded in 1996. It invests both directly in companies and in funds as a limited partner, from growth to buyout, in healthcare & life science, Technology, Media and Telecom, industrials and business services. Its stated cheque size is $30m to $300m. $200 BN under management, as it reports.
“Our Co-Investment team makes minority investments in buyout deals across Europe, North America and Asia alongside leading private equity sponsors.”
— Ardian, own website
- Layer
- Direct + LP
- Type
- Private equity
- Invests in
- Europe, North America, Asia, Asia-Pacific, Australia, Americas
- Sectors
- Healthcare & life science, Technology, Media and Telecom, Industrials, Business services, Consumer goods and services, Aerospace & defense, Internet Software & Services, Energy
- Cheque size
- $30m to $300m
- Founded
- 1996
- Assets under management
- $200 BN
Team, as Ardian publishes it
- Dominique Senequier CEO & Founder
- Mathias Burghardt Executive President & Chairman of the Infrastructure Management Committee
- Alexandre Motte Co-Head of Co-Investment & Senior Managing Director
- Patrick Kocsi Co-Head of Co-Investment & Senior Managing Director
- Mark Benedetti Co-CEO of Ardian & Member of the ASF Management Committee
- Vladimir Colas Executive President & Chairman of the ASF Management Committee
- Jan Philipp Schmitz Executive President & Member of the ASF Management Committee
- Faruk Amin Deputy Head of United States Co-Investment & Senior Managing Director
- Carole Barnay Deputy Head of Europe Co-Investment & Senior Managing Director
- Marie-Victoire Rozé Deputy Co-Head of Secondaries & Primaries, Senior Managing Director and Member of the ASF Management Committee
- Daryl Li Co-Head of U.S. Secondaries & Primaries, Senior Managing Director & member of the ASF Management Committee
- Stéphane Guichard Senior Managing Director
Names and roles exactly as listed on ardian.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 3 co-investors found.
- ISAI 1 shared company: vsora.com
- Omnes Capital 1 shared company: vsora.com
- Aisling Capital Management LP 1 shared company: galderma.com
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Ardian publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.ardian.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, description, aum, status, confidence
- https://www.ardian.com/expertise/private-equity/co-investmentinvests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, cheque_size, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, people
- https://www.ardian.com/firm/our-storyfounded
- https://www.ardian.com/investorspeople
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Record 233 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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