Conclusion of 2025 for Alacrité France
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In early December, our Alacrité France team held their popular year-end plenary session in Lille, France. With nearly 50 in attendance including Limited Partners, Board Members, company CEOs, mentors and investors, the event was a successful conclusion to a busy year for our French cohort of companies.
Alacrité France founder and lead investor, Terry Matthews, joined the meeting from Ottawa via video conference to deliver a year-end address. His comments focused on change and opportunity, and pursuing growth in global markets. The remaining agenda included year end highlights presented by each of the portfolio company CEOs, and a keynote address talking about the adoption and impact of AI on the ongoing process of industrial transformation — delivered by California-based (French ex-pat) founder, mentor and thought leader Lionel Pelamourgues, live from Silicon Valley.
The prior day our EVP of Portfolio Business Strategy, Greg Vanclief, delivered a half day workshop to the portfolio companies focusing on preparing your company for a financing event and strategies and considerations for developing channels and going after global markets in the pursuit of new clients. Greg also spent time with each CEO for individual one-on-one meetings to offer guidance and assistance with key strategic challenges they were facing. The strength of the relationship between Wesley Clover and the Alacrité France team demonstrates our ongoing commitment to mentoring young entrepreneurs, building successful innovative companies and reinforcing a supportive and rich global portfolio culture.
All in all, it was a week filled with highly engaging meetings combined with insightful year-end reviews and topped off with a little bit of celebration that brought our Ottawa leadership team together with our French team and portfolio companies to look back at the challenges and achievements of 2025 and take a look forward at plans for 2026. A busy and productive week!
