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 buyout to fund commitments, 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.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 3 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- 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, stage_min, stage_max
- 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 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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