About This Fund
Eurazeo Smart City Fund II is a dedicated venture capital fund managed by Eurazeo, the Paris-headquartered global investment group with over €39 billion in assets under management across private equity, growth, venture, real estate, infrastructure, and private debt strategies. The fund held its final and third close on 18 July 2023 at €400 million — one of Europe's largest dedicated smart city and climate technology funds of its vintage. It succeeds Eurazeo's first Smart City Fund, a 2016 vintage that generated five exits — Volta Charging, Bird, Forsee Power, Glovo, and Grab — demonstrating the strength of the thesis and anchoring LP confidence in the platform.
The fund invests in high-growth technology companies building scalable solutions for sustainable cities. Target themes span renewable energy generation and distribution, advanced electric mobility, climate-smart manufacturing, sustainable logistics, and built environment technologies with verifiable carbon-reduction impact. Investment tickets range from €3 million to €40 million per company, with a target portfolio of 20–25 companies deployed over a four-year investment period. The fund's impact framework monitors carbon savings and removal through operational KPIs aligned with five-year environmental objectives, appealing to both financial and sustainability-focused limited partners.
The fund's LP base of 23 institutional investors reflects exceptionally broad geographic and institutional diversity. Sovereign wealth funds and development finance institutions — the European Investment Fund (EIF), Bpifrance, PFR, FRC, and the Korean Venture Investment Corporation (KVIC) — anchor the capital base. Eighteen strategic corporations from Europe and Asia co-invest alongside them, including EDF, TotalEnergies, Stellantis, Hager Group, ZF, RATP, Mainova, SP Group, Banpu, and Jardine Pacific, providing both capital and unique market access for portfolio companies. A select group of family offices rounds out the LP roster.