European Investment Fund
eif.org Direct + LP
The European Investment Fund is an EU body and part of the EIB Group that provides financing to SMEs and mid-caps through intermediaries, and invests in infrastructure funds. It operates across EU member states, candidate countries, and EFTA countries, focusing on policy goals such as innovation, climate, and digitalisation.
European Investment Fund is a public fund headquartered in Luxembourg, Luxembourg, founded in 1994. It invests both directly in companies and in funds as a limited partner, from seed to growth, in SMEs, mid-caps, infrastructure and innovation.
“We want to make it easier for European SMEs and infrastructure projects to access financing at every stage of their development.”
— European Investment Fund, own website
- Layer
- Direct + LP
- Type
- Public fund
- Headquarters
- Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Invests in
- EU, EU candidate and potential candidate countries, EFTA countries
- Sectors
- SMEs, mid-caps, infrastructure, innovation, climate, digital, social infrastructure, defence
- Founded
- 1994
Team, as European Investment Fund publishes it
- Nadia Calviño Chair of the Board
- Jean-Christophe Laloux Chief Executive (as of January 2027)
Names and roles exactly as listed on eif.org. 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. 9 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- Agence Française de Développement (AFD) 1 shared company: eib.org
- Berenberg 1 shared company: eib.org
- Butterfly Ventures 1 shared company: eib.org
- Circulate Capital 1 shared company: eib.org
- Cygnum Capital 1 shared company: eib.org
- Infranode 1 shared company: eib.org
- Metavallon 1 shared company: eib.org
- Runa Capital 1 shared company: eib.org
- Trade and Development Bank 1 shared company: eib.org
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page European Investment Fund publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.eif.org/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, people, status, confidence
- https://www.eif.org/about-us/we-are-the-eifinvests_in_geographies, founded
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Record 399 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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