Marc Benatar

Marc Benatar is a Partner leading Healthcare investments at Apax Partners France, the mid-market private equity firm that rebranded as Seven2 in March 2023 (its fund franchise now trades as "Apax by Seven2"). He joined the firm as a Partner in January 2019, hired specifically to build out its healthcare franchise and to broaden the firm's reach beyond France into markets such as Benelux and Italy. He brought roughly 20 years of healthcare-sector experience to the role.

Benatar grew up in Africa — he cites his formative years in Lubumbashi (in a family of entrepreneurs) as the root of his taste for diverse cultures and team-oriented work. He graduated from Belgium's Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management (Solvay Business School) in 1992. He began his career with four years at Waste Management International, then spent about a decade at General Electric, starting as a Six Sigma Master Black Belt in Amsterdam and rising to M&A / Corporate Development director for GE Healthcare across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, working in Paris and London.

In 2007 he moved into private equity, joining 3i Group as a Director focused on healthcare and consumer transactions, where he worked on deals including Vedici (French private-hospital group) and Q Holding. Since joining Apax/Seven2 he has led the firm's healthcare deals and taken board/supervisory roles at portfolio companies — notably a seat on the Supervisory Board of Dutch mental-health group Mentaal Beter (NL Mental Care Group). Aggregator profiles also associate him with roles connected to Kharis Capital and Dentressangle, though his primary, best-documented affiliation remains Apax by Seven2.

• Invests through the mid-market buyout / growth strategy of Apax by Seven2 — i.e., majority or significant stakes in established, profitable companies, not early-stage seed rounds.
• Healthcare is his core vertical: providers and services (e.g., mental-health and specialty care platforms), with strong interest in digital transformation and buy-and-build / international expansion of national champions.
• Geographic thesis explicitly extends beyond France to Benelux and Italy, reflecting the mandate under which he was hired.
• On the Mentaal Beter deal he framed the value-add as operational and strategic: "*The Apax team would be very proud to contribute to the further development of Mentaal Beter… we are eager to support Mentaal Beter in its projects including digital transformation and international development.*"
• Emphasizes teamwork as the differentiator — he has said he is "deeply convinced that teamwork is the fuel to help entrepreneurs obtain exceptional results."