In 2025, New York Life Investments, Candriam and Andera Partners (Andera) have entered a strategic partnership whereby New York Life Investments acquired – through its global affiliate network – a 40% minority interest in Andera.
A leading European mid-market investment firm with over 20 years of history with an established track record across private equity, venture capital and infrastructure, Andera manages assets for institutional and private investors.
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”Through this partnership, we are pursuing our ambition to play a key role in financing the economy, fostering European SMEs’ growth, medical innovation and the energy transition. It will create sustainable value for our customers, our teams, our portfolio companies and our entire ecosystem.
Andera Partners is a European multi-strategy private equity specialist focused on mid and small growth capital, mezzanine debt, venture capital, infrastructure investment, and direct co-investments. For over twenty years, Andera has helped companies grow and develop, fostering long-term partnerships with entrepreneurs sharing common values and convictions. Organic and external growth, international development, innovation recapitalisation, corporate governance and change management: Andera offers a range of well-defined investment strategies implemented through bespoke solutions that meet the challenges faced by leaders and their business models.
Andera offers a range of investment strategies supporting therapeutic and medical innovation, green infrastructures, and more generally European small and medium-size enterprises and mid-caps. Through a broad array of various financing solutions, the team can accommodate client needs at each stage of their development.
Andera’s 120 employees work as a team with a common commitment to collective performance, with a shared conviction that partnering with the company leaders is the best road to strong and sustainable growth. Combining talents to achieve ambitious goals and generate value for clients, this is what lies behind Andera’s signature “The Power of And”.
Andera’s commitment goes beyond financial resources, to include hands-on support to the companies with whom it works: operational improvements, financing, CSR, networking, digital transformation... Over twenty years, Andera has supported 350 companies, across their value chain.
As an active investor with twenty years of experience in transforming the companies they invest in, Andera Partners has a strong focus on sustainability. Each company in the portfolio, at its own level, contributes to providing sustainable solutions for the planet. Fighting against climate change, preserving biodiversity and contributing to an inclusive and shared economy are among Andera’s priorities.
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