Antoine Harleaux

Antoine Harleaux is a Lille-based former Finorpa executive. Public profiles list him in Lille, associated with AHX Développement, and show education at Sciences Po Urba. Finorpa is a regional investment group focused on financing companies in Hauts-de-France through equity and quasi-equity instruments.

Harleaux was publicly identified as Directeur Général of Finorpa in multiple regional-finance contexts. A 2010 Journal des Entreprises article on a €5M Finorpa/UIMM participatory-loan fund quoted him as DG of Finorpa. La Gazette France identified him in 2014 as Finorpa’s “nouveau directeur général” alongside group presidents, and in 2016 as DG of Finorpa in connection with a Coface credit-insurance framework for Finorpa-affiliated companies.

Corporate-registry sources show several formal Finorpa mandates. Societe.com records Antoine Harleaux becoming Directeur Général of Finorpa Conseils in October 2013 and being replaced by Jean-Louis Guérin in October 2017. Pappers records him as former president of Finorpa Partenaires from June 2016 to August 2018, while Finorpa GIE filings show him leaving the Directeur Général role in January 2020.

After Finorpa, Harleaux created AHX Développement, a SASU formed in June 2017 for “conseil et assistance en stratégie, organisation et finance.” Pappers records AHX Développement as a Faches-Thumesnil-based management-consulting company, liquidated and removed from the registry in March 2022.

• Finorpa’s early-stage mandate is to “participate in the development of young companies with potential,” specifically companies in creation or startup phase.
• Finorpa’s stated capital-risque tickets are €150k-€500k, with possible follow-on investment, using equity and quasi-equity products.
• Finorpa highlights expertise in “#technologie #industrie #startup #nouveau modèle économique” for early-stage deals.
• For growth-stage SMEs, Finorpa finances organic growth and/or acquisitions with €300k-€1M tickets in equity and quasi-equity.
• Harleaux’s public comments on Giroptic suggest he valued ambitious founders with technical depth, global commercial reach, and execution capacity; he described Richard Ollier as having “ambition” and “audace,” a rare team, and the ability to find both markets and suppliers internationally.
• Finorpa’s current positioning emphasizes proximity, trust, and long-term regional partnership with entrepreneurs in Hauts-de-France.