EDF Pulse Ventures investment manager Loic Raynal is taking a short-term additional position at private equity firm Eurazeo.

Loïc Raynal, investment manager at EDF Pulse Ventures, a corporate venture capital (CVC) subsidiary of France-based energy group EDF, has joined local private equity firm Eurazeo in a short-term placement.

Raynal said: “I am actually both within the VC team in Eurazeo for a few months and staying in EDF’s CVC.”

Such moves are often a precursor to a corporate setting up a similar investment operation as well as bringing about closer partnership between portfolio companies and the parent corporation,…

James Mawson

James Mawson is founder and chief executive of Global Venturing.