• Chilean-based, $27 million private equity fund specialized in the sectors related to the transformation of agricultural and aquacultural products (the "agri-food sector"), including mainly food processing, food additives, natural extract products, seeds, animal nutrition and healthcare

• Fund's objective is to sponsor partnerships between Chilean companies and innovative European SMEs (mainly French ones) of the agri-food sector, leveraging both regions' extremely complementary features and capacities
• Chile has abundant natural advantages and many high-quality agricultural raw resources
• Europe, in the other hand, has developed world leadership in the agri-food sector

• By helping European companies create new agricultural productions, food processing factories and related services, the Fund will enable them to take profit from Chile's natural resources and sound advantages, by entering new markets at higher efficiency rates

• In the same time, Chile will benefit from European companies' know-how (technological processes) and know-who (commercial networks), adding value to local agricultural and aquacultural products and increasing complex processed food exports

• Fund's concept and principles are founded in its two main creators', Hubert Porte and François Edant, extensive combined experience (+30 years) promoting economic links between France and Chile, which has led them to the conviction that Ecus Agri-Food could act as a catalyst that will further accelerate both agri-food industries' integration

• A team with bicultural background as well as a vast cumulative experience in the agri-food sector will be fully dedicated to the Fund