ISAI ACQUIRES A MINORITY STAKE IN HUBVISORY, CONSULTING AGENCY SPECIALIZED IN DIGITAL PRODUCTS
ISAI, a French leading investment fund in Tech & Digital private companies, announces that it has acquired, through a LBO transaction, a minority stake in Hubvisory, a consulting agency specialized in supporting large accounts and scale-ups in their innovations, transformations, and creations of successful digital products. The founders will remain as a majority shareholder alongside ISAI.
The common objective is to accelerate Hubvisory’s development to become the leader of the promising and fast-growing Product Management consulting market in France.
Founded in 2016, Hubvisory offers complementary services to accompany its clients from the discovery to the delivery of successful digital products and to set up efficient organization to do so. The company is known as an expert in bridging the gap between technology on one hand and business & user experience on the other hand with a customer-centric approach. With its high reputation and its loyal workforce of c. 100 employees, Hubvisory provides skilled services to its diversified customer-base.
“After creating Hubvisory in 2016 when digital products became strategic to every company, we have developed our expertise to ensure that each product is economically viable, reliable, and durable on the technical level while being desirable by the users.” Explains Martin Canton-Lauga, co-founder of Hubvisory.
“Our partnership with ISAI will allow us to accelerate our expansion by strengthening Hubvisory’s brand name, accelerating on recruitments, developing new offers and extending our geographical footprint in Europe, starting with Belgium.” Continues Benoit Rosier, co-founder of Hubvisory.
“After 6 years of independence and bootstrapping, ISAI convinced us to be part of the journey thanks to their deep knowledge, their track-record within the business services industry and their understanding of our activity. We also believe that it is a perfect match with our culture and our fundamental values.” Concludes Pierre Cathelin, co-founder of Hubvisory.
Creating a leading European specialist in Digital Product Management
Hubvisory tripled its revenues since 2019 while maintaining a strong profitability thanks to its expertise and its added value services. With the support of ISAI, Hubvisory is seeking to hire more than 200 consultants over the next five years and to unleash already identified value creation levers. The company is also well engaged in environmental and social issues, with a dedicated team “Hub’for Good” actively working on a wide range of initiatives (e.g. on-going B-Corp certification). Moreover, one of the main focuses with support of ISAI will be to quickly implement and maintain an inclusive policy.
“We first met with Martin, Benoit and Pierre in 2019 and have built a trustful relationship since then through regular interactions. We are thrilled to help them in developing Hubvisory both in France and Europe through our ninth investment with ISAI Expansion II fund.” Says Christophe Poupinel, General Partner at ISAI.
“We have been impressed by Hubvisory’s team expertise and reputation, and we strongly believe that the company is very-well positioned to accelerate its development and capture the growth of this new, promising market.” Concludes Pierre Dumas, Investment Director at ISAI.
ISAI’s investment is made by its ISAI Expansion II fund, focusing on profitable Tech & Digital growth and buyout companies.
About Hubvisory
Hubvisory is a consulting agency specializing in Product. The company supports startups and large groups to innovate, transform and create successful digital products. Created in 2016, the company employs more than 100 consultants with offices in Paris, Lille and soon Brussels.
For more information: https://hubvisory.com/en
About ISAI Gestion
ISAI Gestion (“ISAI”) is a pioneer in French Tech & Digital private investments co-founded in 2009 by successful Tech entrepreneurs - including Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet, Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux, Stéphane Treppoz - and backed by 300+ Entrepreneurs’ LP and major institutional investors. Holding close its core values of Entrepreneurship, Honesty and Caring, ISAI is a team of 20+ professionals based in Paris and NYC who all share the same guiding values of entrepreneurial success. The company is majority-owned by its employees. It keeps entrepreneurship at its heart and focuses on delivering excellent investment performance to its investor base. ISAI currently manages €550m of assets through four pillars of investment expertise: Early-Stage Venture Capital, Late-Stage Venture Capital, Private Debt and Growth / Buyout. It is a household name associated with recognized Tech & Digital successes: Blablacar, 360Learning, Labelium, LegalStart, Theodo, aDvens, Copado, Alation, DataDome, Malt, Prose, StickyAds, Evaneos, etc.
ISAI is a signatory of the UNPRI and actively committed in making the Tech more Inclusive and Carbon efficient.
For more information: www.isai.vc
Hubvisory: Pierre Cathelin, Benoit Rosier, Martin Canton-Lauga
ISAI: Christophe Poupinel, Pierre Dumas, Valentine Loyer
ISAI advisors:
Financial: d’Ornano + Co (Raphaëlle d’Ornano, Adrien d’Hauthuille, Lauren Goodenough, Guillaume Lefèvre)
Tax & Legal: Piotraut Giné Avocats (Raphaël Piotraut, Arnaud Viard, Myriam Zendjebil, Tristan Boisdron, Patrice Antunes)
Social: Nerval Avocats (Christophe Lopez)
ESG: PwC (François Thueux, Colette Ashley)
Debt providers: BNP Paribas (Rebecca Jolly, Daniel Ardeljan, Virginie Briton), LCL (Aurore Bourneuf, Julien Limouzin, Ariane Tual)
Hubvisory advisors: Legal advisors: Henri Stiegler, Léa Levesque, Charles Ghuysen
Contacts
Kablé Communication Nolwenn Salaün | nolwenn.salaun@kable-communication.com |M: +33 (0)6 68 41 54 32
ISAI Caroline Gibert | caroline.gibert@isai.fr | M: +33 (0)6 99 91 06 60
Hubvisory Chloé Largeau | chloe.largeau@hubvisory.com |