Atena Equity Partners

Atena Equity Partners is rated 3 out of 5 in the category venture capital & private equity. Read and write reviews about Atena Equity Partners. Operational Investors Independence, Execution, Candor We invests in Portuguese leaders with sustainable barriers to entry, with significant experience in industrial and business services companies with international potential. We pursue complex situations such as successions, carve-outs and restructurings, for which our flexible investment mandate and deep in-house operational resources are critical. Post-closing, our team works alongside the portfolio management teams supporting the development of ambitious international expansion, operational improvement and buy-and-build plans. Atena's funds under management have as ultimate beneficiaries its management team (with a significant share) and several European and US institutions in a syndicate that includes Foundations, Universities, Insurance companies and Pension funds. Atena Equity Partners and its funds under management are authorized and regulated by the CMVM. Atena was founded on the premise that it is crucial to have in-house operational experience to make sounder investment decisions and to support the portfolio management teams in the design and implementation of truly transformational projects. Two of the three Founding Partners have had significant line experience in Portuguese SMEs and our Operating Partners, world-class senior executives who invest and work alongside Atena's investment team, strengthen our due diligence capacity and help to foster change at the portfolio level by "having done it before"​. Atena has also developed a network of Operating Executives who are affected to its fund's portfolio companies as interim executive managers when necessary, and with the Advisory support from Senior Advisors who are heavyweights in the Portuguese corporate world.