The Agent raises €7m with Ventech, Generis Capital Partners and BPI France

Blueprint Partners acted as sole Financial Advisor

Paris, February 27th 2018 – Blueprint Partners announces a €7m fundraising round for The Agent

The Agent is a french platform solution and service for fashion and cosmetic brands willing to develop their e-commerce channel internationally.

With more than 600 brands and 90 e-retail partners, The Agent helps brands on all export issues and obstacles they may confront: aggregation of flows, catalog enrichment, photo shootings, translations, sales promotions, customer service & logistics and also managing shipping returns.

This transaction’s main goal:

Accelerate the technological development of the platform in order to help brands reduce their go-to-market time
Create an international leader that guides fashion brands and strengthens their international presence, namely in China

The enterprise already thrives since more than 80% of its export revenues and 30% of its catalog brands are European. The Agents strives to recruit hundreds of additional brands on an international scale in the coming years.

Thibault Mollat du Jourdin,
CEO & Partner at The Agent

“This round will enable us to accelerate the development of our IT platform, thus enhancing even further our value chain.

Blueprint’s presence and support played a central role in executing our strategy and hence in succeeding with the transaction.”

Eric Plantier,
Partner at Blueprint Partners

“Our past experience with Retail transactions, gave us confidence in The Agent’s core value, by benefiting its clients and its supply partners resulting in the ‘club’ effect .

The Agent’s outstanding team knew exactly how to define a clear strategy along with a remarkable execution”.

The company’s website The Agent

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Blueprint Partners executes equity transactions for small and medium enterprises in digital sectors. We help entrepreneurs and managers define their growth strategy, help them to orchestrate organic growth and build-ups, and execute adequate fundraising, M&A buy side mandates and/or recapitalization mandates. We typically execute fundraising transactions between €2m and €15m.

We also accompany shareholders (entrepreneurs and investors) to sell part or all of their shares (M&A sell-side transactions). Our focus is on companies with Enterprise Value ranging from €10m to €100m.

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