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After developing and running several small and mid-sized businesses, Sylvain de Backer has now chosen to take over an existing company to leverage his technical, operational, and leadership expertise to drive long-term success and deliver exceptional returns to his investors. Among them are Innesto Partners, Albira Investments, Cabiedes Inversiones, EPA Investissement, Secways, Novadvice, Spectra Investments, Pina Capital, SearchRight Capital, Caméléon Invest, Vivagen Partners, Hormes Capital, and several experienced French investors from Provence Angels. He raised €390k across 13 units to finance his search.
Sylvain is an engineer with 15 years of hands-on experience as an operator, building and growing small and mid-sized businesses. He founded L’Elys, a French cosmetics company, which he led for five years before exiting to an industrial acquirer. He later co-founded Descrb AI, a B2B SaaS startup focused on content automation for online retailers. As CRO of EcoMundo, a B2B regulatory services and software company, he expanded operations to six countries and drove a tenfold increase in revenue while maintaining profitability. He actively supports entrepreneurs as an investor with Provence Angels and has strong finance and M&A skills as a founding investor in Capit’Alpes, a vehicle dedicated to SME transmissions.
Sylvain will seek a profitable French SME with stable and recurring cash flows, low cyclicality, and limited CapEx requirements, typically with an EV range of €7.5–30 million. While his search will be sector-agnostic, he will initially focus on industrial manufacturing and services companies, where he has strong expertise in process optimization, as well as software/SaaS and B2B niche solutions, where he can add significant value thanks to his deep understanding of go-to-market strategies, sales structuring, and revenue growth.
