Jolt Capital welcomes Eric Arnould as General Partner
Eric Arnould joins Jolt Capital as General Partner. In his new role he will bring his vast experience in Equity Capital Market to the development of Jolt’s growth funds and the direct involvment in new investments.
During his 16 years in ECM at Natixis, Eric covered in particular tech companies, utilities and renewable energies. Appointed Managing Director (2012) then Global Head of ECM activities (2017), member of the Executive Committee of the Investment Banking division, in charge of a team of 25 people covering the full range of ECM from Origination and Equity Syndicate, up to Structuring & Execution and Corporate Broking. Since early 2022, he had been promoted to Senior Banker, covering a portfolio of growth tech companies for all their capital and debt financing operations.
During his 16 years at Natixis, Eric Arnould supervised 100+ market operations including 40+ IPOs.
Before that, Eric had started his career with the investment banking teams at Société Générale, with a focus on ECM between 2002 and 2005 in Frankfurt and Paris, after a first experience as analyst among the M&A FIG team of Deutsche Bank in London.
« In a few years Jolt Capital has become the reference platform for European deeptech equity funding. I’m delighted to join a talented team of investors-entrepreneurs and industrial experts, and to contribute my finance experience to the development of responsible technology companies and to the global european deeptech ecosystem.” says Eric Arnould.
« European stock exchanges are growing their volumes of listed technology companies, in particular industrial ones. Eric’s experience will allow us, in certain situations, to put a toe in the water of investing in listed companies. It will also come in handy when our most mature portfolio companies consider launching an IPO. » comments Jean Schmitt, Managing Partner & President of Jolt Capital.
Eric Arnould is an alumnus of HEC Paris and holds a CEMS Master’s degree from the University of Saint-Gallen (Switzerland). He is currently completing the Executive Master in Technology Management & Innovation at Ecole Polytechnique (France).