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Natixis

30 avenue Pierre Mendès France, Paris, Ile-de-France, 75013, France

Overview

Natixis is a French corporate and investment bank. It provides wholesale banking, investment solutions, and specialized financial services. The company’s wholesale banking services comprise mergers and acquisitions, primary equity, and capital advisory services for businesses, institutional investors, insurance companies, banks, and public sector entities. It also offers equity, credit rate, currency, commodities, and global-structured credit solutions, as well as access to the capital markets; finance for aircraft, exports and infrastructure, and energy and commodities; strategic and acquisition finance, real estate finance, and equity linked finance; portfolio management services; global transaction banking services, such as account management and treasury, cash management, trade finance, and correspondent banking products; and economic, credit, equity, and quantitative research services. The company’s investment solutions include asset management services; life insurance, personal protection insurance, and property and casualty insurance solutions for retail and small business customers, farmers, companies, and associations; private banking services; and private equity financing services for unlisted small- and medium-sized enterprises through sponsored equity holdings. In addition, its specialized financial services consist of factoring, lease financing, consumer credit, sureties and financial guarantees, film industry financing, employee benefits planning, and payment and securities services. Founded in 2006, Natixis is based in Paris, France.

Total investments
25
Lead investments
4
Investments · 12mo
5
Active investors
12

Sector focus

  • Banking
  • Financial Services
  • Insurance
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Investment portfolio

  • Pure Data Centres

    Participated · Debt Financing · Jul 2026

    Pure Data Centres acquires land and develops large-scale data centre campuses which it then leases to hyperscalers such as Microsoft, Google and Amazon to host AI and cloud workloads. The company is backed by Oaktree Capital and operates assets including sites in Dublin, Amsterdam and Abu Dhabi. Pure DC is investing over €1 billion in a 78MW Amsterdam campus that is reported to be fully leased to Microsoft and comprises three 85-metre towers. The Amsterdam project is expected to create over 1,000 jobs, though there is no firm operational date reported. Management has signaled aggressive expansion plans across Europe and the Middle East supported by the recent $2.7 billion financing, while also noting a pause in some Middle East investments amid the Iran war. No revenue or user metrics were disclosed in the articles.

  • Origis Energy

    Led · Debt Financing · Jun 2026

    Origis Energy develops, owns, and operates utility-scale solar and battery storage projects. The company is advancing a pipeline of more than 20 GW and said the new facility will help advance over 5 GW of highly advanced projects. Origis reported that it has quadrupled its operating capacity over the past 24 months. Earlier financings this year include $118 million in tax equity for the Chalan Solar + Storage project and approximately $545 million in senior secured project financing for three Rockhound Projects. Management framed the new corporate credit facility as liquidity to support its growth strategy and accelerate its near-term project pipeline. The syndicate of banks and institutional investors on the transaction provides both funded credit and letter-of-credit capacity to underwrite development activity.

  • Mistral AI

    Participated · Debt Financing · Mar 2026

    Mistral AI develops AI models and is expanding into infrastructure by building large-scale data centers for training and running advanced models. The company is constructing a facility in Bruyères-le-Châtel near Paris slated to be operational in Q2 2026 and has announced a second planned site in Sweden. Mistral aims to assemble a European compute network targeting 200 MW of capacity by the end of 2027. It will purchase roughly 13,800 advanced Nvidia chips with the recent financing. The company also supplies AI models and solutions to the French armed forces, positioning itself beyond pure model development into infrastructure and defense-related work. Financially, Mistral recently secured a €750M+ loan from a seven-bank consortium, its first significant borrowing from debt markets.

  • AirTrunk

    Participated · Debt Financing · Mar 2026

    AirTrunk builds and operates hyperscale data centre campuses for large cloud and enterprise customers. The company is advancing its JHB2 campus in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, which it intends to design with sustainable cooling and a target PUE of 1.37 to optimise energy and water use. AirTrunk secured a major green financing facility to fund that development and described the transaction as the largest single-data-centre green finance deal in Malaysia. The firm plans to allocate some margin savings from construction to local social impact projects, including recycled water infrastructure at schools and disaster relief programs. AirTrunk positions itself as a significant issuer of sustainable finance within the global data centre industry.

  • NineDot Energy

    Led · Debt Financing · Feb 2026

    NineDot Energy designs, develops, and operates battery energy storage systems (BESS) that serve the New York City metropolitan grid. Its community-scale projects aim to deliver resilient, affordable power while lowering carbon emissions and improving environmental equity. The company currently has seven operating projects spread across four sites in Staten Island and The Bronx and maintains a pipeline of more than 60 additional projects. Backed by recent financing, it will construct 28 new battery storage installations totaling 124 MW / 494 MWh. NineDot also plans to expand beyond stationary storage by integrating mobile batteries and electric-vehicle charging at select locations. Management is evaluating opportunities to take its model beyond the New York City area. The recent $431 million debt raise materially strengthens its balance sheet and underwrites near-term project build-out.

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