Interview with Hugues Souparis, President & Founder of Enowe — Legacy Forum
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At the Legacy Forum 2025, wealth transfer is no longer limited to financial considerations. Hugues Souparis, President & Founder of Enowe, the Souparis family’s family office, shares his vision of a transfer that aligns economic performance, positive impact, and the common good.
Replacing the old world, not just adjusting it
Hugues Souparis clearly summarizes Enowe’s mission: to finance companies that have a positive impact so that they gradually replace those that have a negative impact. His vision, inspired by Schumpeter’s “creative destruction,” puts growth at the service of the common good.
Enowe’s investments are structured around two main categories:
- minority stakes in companies with social and environmental impact,
- majority stakes in companies preserving living heritage, with a strong focus on products made in France and exceptional craftsmanship.
Beyond mere financial performance, Enowe seeks to measure a dual performance: economic and impact-based. For each project, specific indicators are defined to concretely track the evolution of impact over time.
Measuring impact: a challenge as important as the financial one
One of the key aspects of Enowe’s approach is impact measurement. While financial performance is easily gauged in an income statement, social or environmental impact requires tailored indicators.
For each company it supports, Enowe begins by analyzing the project, understanding the nature of the positive impact generated, and then defining appropriate impact KPIs. These indicators are tracked throughout the investment period, alongside financial performance.
This same rigor also applies to philanthropy, through a dedicated endowment fund. Enowe analyzes the projects, the team behind them, and the strength of the supported associations or NGOs, with a clear objective: to maximize the impact of every euro donated.
A Family Legacy Dedicated to the Common Good
Behind Enowe lies a strong family history. Hugues Souparis’s children expressed a desire not to receive a traditional family inheritance, but to put the family’s wealth to work for the common good. This impulse led to the transformation of the family holding company into a socially responsible investment vehicle.
This line of thinking goes so far as to question the way we pass on wealth today:
“If the nobility was abolished in France, it was not to be replaced by an oligarchy.”
For Hugues Souparis, it is time to envision a new model of wealth transfer that examines the role of wealth, its purpose, and the responsibility of capital holders toward society.
About Enowe
Enowe is an investment firm founded by Hugues Souparis following the sale of Surys, a high-tech company that became a global leader in security authentication. As the Souparis family’s family office, Enowe pursues an investment strategy centered on three pillars: entrepreneurial growth projects, companies with a positive impact (social and environmental), and “Made in France” expertise of excellence.
Adhering to a rigorous CSR charter, Enowe prioritizes investments in unlisted micro-enterprises, SMEs, and mid-cap companies and provides long-term support to management teams by combining capital investment, strategic expertise, and operational support. A portion of the portfolio is also dedicated to philanthropy, through an endowment fund focused on projects of public interest, particularly environmental initiatives.
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