| Date | Title | Description |
| 25.09.2023 | Stoïk raises €10 million and expands to Germany | Since raising €11 million in an a16z-led Series A round in June of 2022, Parisian SME-focused insurance and cybersecurity software provider Stoïk has today announced the raise of an additional €10 million.
The fresh investment will support... |
| 12.09.2023 | AMD Acquires Mipsology to Deepen AI Inference Software Capabilities | AMD, one of the worldwide leaders in semi-conductors, computer processors and related technologies acquired 100% of Alven portfolio company, Mipsology, a leader in AI software and long-standing AMD partner based in Palaiseau and San Fransis... |
| 20.04.2023 | Skarlett raises €4 million to reinvent the daily lives of people over 60 | Skarlett is the brainchild of 3 seasoned entrepreneurs: Townley Le Guénédal (Innohealth), Aurélien Gouttefarde (Homeloop), and Benjamin Gaignault (Ornikar), who are on a mission to shatter age-old stereotypes about being 60 in 2023.
Skarle... |
| 23.03.2023 | Alven expands its London team with a new associate hire | We’re truly delighted to welcome Alice Azzarelli as Alven’s new Associate in our London office.
Alice completed her studies at Science Po and University of California Berkeley, before embarking on a career in venture. She joins us from M... |
| 12.01.2023 | Alven bolsters leadership team with Bartosz Jakubowski’s promotion to Partner |
Bartosz has been a member of the Alven team since 2019, initially joining as Investment Manager and quickly rising through the ranks to Principal in 2020. His contributions to the firm, as well as his expertise in the fintech, climate tec... |
| 10.01.2023 | Creative Fabrica raises $61M to expand its digital platform for the global crafting & design market, accelerating through generative AI |
The company has experienced substantial growth since raising its [$7M] Series A in January last year, as people are turning more and more to authentic do-it-yourself, crafting activities CEO Roemie Hillenaar reflects, “It’s been quite a r... |
| 13.12.2022 | Dataiku Announced a $200 Million Series F funding at a $3.7 billion valuation | The Series F investment brings Dataiku’s total primary funding since inception to approximately $600 million. This latest investment reinforces Dataiku’s leadership position and will help accelerate its platform capabilities and prepare the... |
| 12.12.2022 | Getir acquires Gorillas creating the European leader in quick commerce. | After the launch of more than a dozen rapid grocery apps in the US and Europe by mid-2021, the market has been consolidating over 2022. Alven participated in this consolidation as a historical shareholder of Frichti which merged with Gorill... |
| 29.11.2022 | Crypto staking platform Kiln raises €17M Series A to expand their market-leading staking infrastructure product range | Paris-based Kiln is part of a group of service providers that has garnered investor interest by enabling institutions to tap into staking, a process of temporarily freezing crypto for rewards in return for securing the blockchain.
Kiln bel... |
| 28.11.2022 | Deepomatic announces a €10 million Series B to expand globally and to tackle new verticals in field services | This fundraising was backed by existing investors – Hi Inov-Dentressangle, Swisscom Ventures, and Alven -and two new industry leaders investors – the corporate investment fund EnBW New Ventures of the German utility company EnBW, and a lead... |
| 17.11.2022 | MadKudu raises €18M Series A to make Data-Science ‘superpowers’ accessible | MadKudu, a California-based Product-Led-Growth company in the software industry, raised $18M in Series A funding. The round was led by Felicis Ventures, along with participation from Alven, BGV, Techstars, Elena Verna, Darius Contractor, an... |
| 08.11.2022 | Archy, the next Dental Software solution, raises $10 million in funding to-date | The recent seed funding round was led by Bessemer Venture Partners, along with existing investors Alven and CRV. Other participants include Adapt Ventures, 2.12 Angels, Diagram Capital, Instacart CEO Fidji Simo, former Uber CTO Thuan Pham, ... |
| 08.11.2022 | Mytraffic raises €30M series B to provide digital intelligence to brick-and-mortar operators | The current funding round was led by AXA Venture Partners which joins current and historic investors such as Alven who led the Series A fundraising round in 2021 and Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet’s Kernel fund.
Mytraffic is the largest European... |
| 25.10.2022 | Bearer closes Seed round funding, raised $8 Million to-date | The Data-First Security Software Company closed their $4 million second round led by Alven, alongside Kima, Partech, and Point Nine.
Bearer, the data-first security software company, today announced the closing of their seed round funding.... |
| 25.10.2022 | Grafbase Announces $7.3M in funding to Build the Data Platform of the Future | With this funding, Grafbase aims to set the standard for rapid backend development.
Seed round led by Next47, with participation from Alven, Uncorrelated Ventures and angel investors including the CEOs of Vercel and Datadog and ex-CEO of Gi... |
| 18.10.2022 | A wave of new team members to support current and future investments | Margaux Gregoir has joined the investment team as Principal. She is arriving from Luko, where she was VP of Finance, member of the Executive Committee and built support functions (finance, legal, compliance, and risk). She also drove the ex... |
| 26.09.2022 | JobTeaser acquires Nordic competitor Graduateland | JobTeaser, the European leader in career guidance and recruitment of young talent, announced the acquisition of its Nordic counterpart Gratuateland, allowing the French HR tech scale-up to secure the leading position in the Nordic countries... |
| 29.08.2022 | Gorgias’ valuation rises to $710M with $30M Series C | The round was led by Transpose Platform and Shopify, joined by Jason Lemkin of SaaStr, Rajeev Dham from Sapphire Ventures, CRV and Alven.
In late 2020, the company had raised $25 million in Series B funding on a $305 million valuation. The... |
| 22.07.2022 | Qonto and Penta join forces to strengthen European leadership in digital business finance | The deal, which is expected to close in the next few weeks, comes amid continuous growth for both companies. This acquisition represents the logical next step in Qonto’s long-term ambition to become the finance solution of choice for one mi... |
| 30.06.2022 | Venture Capitals and AI-powered startups |
It’s been quite some years since AI has been trendy in the world of business, particularly for startups, and even more when talking to VCs. There have been hundreds of headline-grabbing discussions of futuristic applications of AI and an ... |
| 28.06.2022 | Less than a year after raising its seed round, Stoïk completes an €11M Series A round | Stoïk has positioned itself as one of the leading players in the high potential cyber insurance market in a very short period of time. Cyber insurance is a massive opportunity in Europe with 8% of medium-sized companies and less than 1% of ... |
| 28.06.2022 | Kaiko announces a $53M Series B | Kaiko, the leading digital assets data provider serving institutional investors and enterprises, announced it has raised $53 million in Series B funding. The round was led by Eight Roads, with participation from Revaia and existing investor... |
| 09.06.2022 | Carbonfact raises $2m to develop Carbon Management Software for the Fashion Industry | Since fashion is a massive contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions, more and more C-levels and CSR leaders of fashion brands are committing to reduce their Corporate GHG emissions in alignment with the 2015 Paris Agreement. Yet, in t... |
| 08.06.2022 | Cryptio raises a $10 million series A for their crypto back-office platform | Cryptio has secured $10 million in a Series A round led by Point Nine with the participation of Alven among other investors.
Accountability and reporting are a priority – both for crypto-native businesses and financial institutions with di... |
| 31.05.2022 | Alven announces its sixth generation fund, raising at its hard cap of €350M, exceeding the initial target of €300M | Alven VI secured commitments from a wide range of high-quality European, North American and other global institutions, and all investors in the prior fund are reinvesting.
We are known for our unicorn investments in companies such as Qonto... |
| 25.04.2022 | Enso raises $16.5M to automate data-driven processes in minutes instead of weeks | The company is tackling one of the biggest challenges companies face – processing all the data they collect. Enso’s open-source platform allows anyone to build and automate data-driven processes, from loading and shuffling data from any sou... |
| 25.04.2022 | TheGuarantors Announces a $50 Million Series C | TheGuarantors, the fintech company building smart financial and insurance solutions for renters and landlords, today announced it had raised $50 million in series C equity funding. The round was led by Portage Ventures, with participation f... |
| 21.04.2022 | POC Pharma raises $10.3 million in Series A to build out digital go-to-market solutions in Pharma Industry | The funds will be used to accelerate the roll-out of its digital go-to-market solutions for the Pharmaceutical Industry in emerging countries, in Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, and Africa.
Pharmaceutical companies employ hund... |
| 14.04.2022 | Finance Data Analyst – Intern | We are recruiting an innovative Finance Data Analyst intern who will work on an exciting project to improve our process and develop automatic functionalities with our CRM. As Data Analyst Intern, your time will be dedicated to providing ope... |
| 13.04.2022 | Wildmoka joins Backlight, a New Global Media Technology Company | Backlight announced the acquisition of Wildmoka and four other visionary media technology companies, all serving media, entertainment and video-forward customers with cloud-based solutions that help improve every step of the media content l... |
| 22.03.2022 | Neural Concept raises a $9.1M Series A to scale Engineering Intelligence within industrial organizations | The funding follows a series of successes for Neural Concept. Over the last 12 months, the number of its customer companies has more than tripled. In the same period, the team achieved a major breakthrough in integrating its technology with... |
| 15.03.2022 | Akeneo Announces $135 Million Series D to Redefine Product Information Management Category | Akeneo, a global leader in product experience management (PXM) and product information management (PIM), today announced a $135M Series D led by global growth equity investor Summit Partners, with participation from existing investors Alven... |
| 02.03.2022 | Yves de Rocquigny is appointed CFO | Yves de Rocquigny is joining Alven as CFO to manage firm-related finance, fund management and cashflows, and support the fundraising process. Prior to Alven, Yves was CFO of 360Capital.
He started his career at EY as an auditor, then went ... |
| 17.02.2022 | Art NFT startup LaCollection closes a $10 million seed round led by Alven | In this new NFT art space facing a general lack of curation, LaCollection stands out by offering a unique highly tailored model, away from traditional marketplaces. The company is creating a new way of owning digital versions of physical ar... |
| 26.01.2022 | Pretto, the leading online mortgage broker, closes a €30M series B funding round | Founded by Pierre Chapon and Renaud Pestre, Pretto’s promise has always been to make the search for property financing efficient, simple and fair for everyone. Since its launch, the company has served 150,000 customers. 2021 marked an accel... |
| 25.01.2022 | Pretto, the leading online mortgage broker, closes a 30M series B funding round | Founded by Pierre Chapon and Renaud Pestre, Pretto’s promise has always been to make the search for property financing efficient, simple and fair for everyone. Since its launch, the company has served 150,000 customers, 2021 marked an accel... |
| 24.01.2022 | Frichti and Gorillas are joining forces to shape the future of quick commerce. | Frichti, a pioneer of Q-Commerce since its creation in 2015, has become a national leader in instant food and groceries delivery in France. Alven invested in Frichti in its seed round shortly after inception and co-invested in the following... |
| 12.01.2022 | Stoïk, the first cyber-insurance company in Europe, closes its first round of financing with a €3.8 million Seed | The financing round is co-led by Alven, Anthemis Group and Kima Ventures, with the participation of prominent business angels including Raphaël Vullierme (Luko), Emmanuel Schalit (Dashlane) and Henry Kravis (KKR) and will enable Stoïk to st... |
| 11.01.2022 | Record-breaking fundraising of €486 million for Qonto bringing its valuation to €4.4 billion. | This amount, unprecedented in the French fintech ecosystem and one of the largest funding rounds ever recorded in French history, brings Qonto’s valuation to €4.4 billion. With this new fundraising, Qonto’s ambition is to become the finance... |
| 10.01.2022 | Ankorstore reaches unicorn status in only two years with its last €250 million Series C funding round | Back in 2019, Alven co-led Ankorstore €6m seed round together with Global Founders Capital. It has since then re-invested consistently in the company during its several rounds of funding alongside Index Ventures Tiger Global, Bain Capital... |
| 08.11.2021 | Cardiologs, an AI-based cardiology diagnostics MedTech company, to be acquired by Philips | Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG; AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, announced today that it has signed an agreement to acquire Cardiologs, a France-based medical technology company focused on transforming cardiac diagnostics using a... |
| 06.10.2021 | Mindee, the paperwork automation API, is raising $14M to automate companies’ document-based processes | Notable executives in the application development space who also participated in the round include the co-founder and former CEO of Algolia, Nicolas Dessaigne and the co-founder and CTO of Datadog, Alexis Lê-Quôc.
Mindee was founded in 201... |
| 23.09.2021 | Mytraffic closes a €10 Million Series A funding led by Alven | The company plans to use the funds to develop its product features and accelerate its growth in France, Netherlands, Belgium, UK, Germany, Italy and Spain.
Mytraffic provides accurate and dynamic insights on physical places (stores, malls,... |
| 22.09.2021 | Alven announces new hires in its investment and operating teams | Gaëlle Le Goff has been appointed Head of Marketing and Community at Alven where she leads content, community building and advocacy strategies for the fund and its portfolio companies.
With over 15 years of experience in communications and ... |
| 05.08.2021 | Dataiku raises a $400M Series E at a $4.6B valuation to enable everyday AI in the enterprise | Alven’s portfolio Dataiku, the world’s leading platform for Everyday AI, today announced a $400M Series E led by Tiger Global, with the participation from several existing investors, including ICONIQ Growth, CapitalG, FirstMark Capital, Bat... |
| 28.07.2021 | Algolia raises $150m in Series D funding at a $2.25b valuation | Alven’s portfolio company Algolia, the leading API Platform for Search & Dynamic Experiences, has closed $150 million in series D funding led by Lone Pine Capital at a post-money valuation of $2.25 billion. The round also includes fundi... |
| 27.07.2021 | Planity is raising €30m in Series B funding to accelerate its European expansion | It’s a success story for the start-up that supports the daily lives of professionals and consumers of beauty and well-being services
Launched in 2017 by Antoine Puymirat and his partners Jérémy Queroy and Paul Vonderscher, in just four yea... |
| 23.06.2021 | Kaiko closes $24 million Series A to scale crypto financial data services for institutions | Kaiko, the leading cryptocurrency market data provider, announced today a $24 million Series A funding round led by global financial services investors Anthemis and Underscore VC. Point Nine, Alven and Hashkey Capital also joined the round,... |
| 15.06.2021 | The Debrief: How to build an ethical brand and what are the challenges at stake? | CSR is more and more important for companies nowadays.This way of doing business is inspiring more and more startups to be at the forefront of change – including Joone & Typology, two companies we’re especially proud to support.
We ask... |
| 17.05.2021 | Ankorstore raises $100m in Series B funding to support retail reopening across Europe | Ankorstore, the curated marketplace connecting independent brands with the most loved local retailers, has raised $100 million in Series B funding led by Tiger Global and Bain Capital Ventures. Propelled by strong growth, and just months af... |
| 12.05.2021 | Swarmia raises a $7m Seed round led by Alven only 12 months after its inception | Swarmia, a software team productivity company based in Helsinki, Finland, has closed the funding round led by Alven only 12 months after its inception, one of the largest seed rounds in the region for such a young company. Existing investor... |
| 27.04.2021 | OpenClassrooms Secures $80 Million in Series C Funding | OpenClassrooms, a mission-driven category leader in online education-to-employment programs announces today it has raised $80 million in a Series C round led by Lumos Capital Group, a leading EdTech investor.
Other investors include GSV Ve... |
| 27.04.2021 | Europe’s leading B2B InsurTech Qover raises €20M to accelerate momentum globally | InsurTech Qover, which builds the API-first global insurance solution for the new economy, has raised €20M with Prime Ventures as lead investor, backed by Cathay Innovation. Existing investors Anthemis and Alven have also participated in th... |
| 27.04.2021 | Qover & Alven: an interview with Quentin Colmant, Jean-Charles Velge & Rodolphe Menegaux | Ahead of Qover’s announcement of its €20m Series B round, we sat down with Qover’s co-founders Quentin Colmant, Jean-Charles Velge and Alven Partner Rodolphe Menegaux, to get their thoughts on Qover, its exciting prospects for the future an... |
| 16.04.2021 | Xwing Raises $40M, Makes History with First Autonomous Gate-to-Gate Flight | SAN FRANCISCO, CA — April 15, 2021 — Xwing, the company pioneering autonomy for aviation, today announced that it has raised $40 million in funding at a $400 million valuation. Led by Blackhorn Ventures, with participation from ACME Capital... |
| 30.03.2021 | Hull acquired by MessageBird | MessageBird, the omnichannel cloud communications platform announces today that it has acquired customer data platform Hull.
Communicating with customers more efficiently is the mission of MessageBird. And this means not only interacting w... |
| 16.03.2021 | Crisis founders: The specific challenges (& opportunities) of launching your startup during a downturn | It takes guts to be a founder. And it often entails a blend of audacity, vision and stamina to set out and proverbially “create something out of nothing”.
It may take even more specific faith to launch during a downturn. Amidst pervasive u... |
| 19.02.2021 | The Debrief: convincing in B2B with the power of emotion | B2B was long thought to be the place of purely rational choice and, unlike B2C, there was no room for non-rational arguments. However, comments such as “Nobody would get fired for choosing IBM” became almost a cult as early as the 1980s, re... |
| 16.02.2021 | Sqreen: a journey with Pierre Betouin and Jean-Baptiste Aviat | I first met Pierre Betouin and Jean-Baptiste Aviat in January 2016.
I wasn’t quite sure what to expect, besides what the story their resumes told: Pierre and Jean-Baptiste had been in charge of Apple’s famed Red Team, the group inside the ... |
| 15.02.2021 | Lengow acquired by Marlin Equity Partners | Marlin Equity Partners (“Marlin”) is pleased to announce that it has completed a majority-control, growth investment in Lengow SAS (“Lengow”), a leading e-commerce automation SaaS platform. Lengow’s best-in-class software platform helps cus... |
| 12.02.2021 | Sqreen to be acquired by Datadog | Datadog, Inc. (NASDAQ: DDOG), the monitoring and security platform for cloud applications, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Sqreen, a SaaS based security platform that enables enterprises to detect,... |
| 10.02.2021 | Powder Snaps Up $14m For Game Clip Sharing | Powder has closed on a $14m Series A led by Serena, including General Catalyst, Slow Ventures, Alven Capital, Bpifrance Digital Venture, Secocha Ventures, Turner Novak, and Kevin Hartz.
The idea for Powder came in December 2019 when the te... |
| 08.02.2021 | Ankorstore & Alven: an interview with Nicolas Cohen & Rodolphe Menegaux | Ahead of Ankorstore’s announcement of its €25m Series A round, we sat down with Ankorstore’s co-founder Nicolas Cohen, and Alven Partner Rodolphe Menegaux, to get their thoughts on Ankorstore, its exciting prospects for the future and its j... |
| 08.02.2021 | Beam raises $9.5m Series A round to build a new way to collect ideas on the web | Beam has raised a $9.5 million Series A round. The company is working on a new web browser that completely rethinks the way you start a web session and browse the web. The startup is founded by Dom Leca and Sébastien Métrot. Dom Leca previo... |
| 21.01.2021 | Indy (ex-Georges) & Alven: an interview with Indy CEO Côme Fouques & Bartosz Jakubowski | Ahead of Indy’s announcement of its $35m Series B round, we sat down with Indy’s CEO Côme Fouques, and Alven Partner Bartosz Jakubowski, to get their thoughts on Indy, its exciting developments for the future, and its journey since joining ... |
| 21.01.2021 | Georges becomes Indy and raises $35m Series B to extend accounting support for independents | Georges.tech becomes Indy and raises 35 million euros to generalise its alternative to accountants.
The Lyon-based startup, which automates the accounting of 40,000 customers, raises €35M in Series B and becomes Indy to position itself as ... |
| 10.12.2020 | Gorgias raises $25m Series B to enhance e-commerce customer support | Gorgias, the e-commerce customer support platform, today announced that it has raised a $25 million Series B round following the company’s 200% year over year growth in 2020. The round, with participation from Sapphire Ventures, Alven, Ampl... |
| 10.12.2020 | Gorgias & Alven: an interview with Gorgias CEO Romain Lapeyre and François Meteyer | Ahead of Gorgias’ announcement of its $25m Series B round, we sat down with Gorgias‘ CEO Romain Lapeyre, and Alven Partner François Meteyer, to get their thoughts on Gorgias, its exciting developments for the future, and its journey since j... |
| 01.12.2020 | Ankorstore raises €25m in a Series A round to boost independent retail across Europe | Ankorstore, a curated marketplace connecting up-and-coming specialist brands with the most loved neighbourhood retailers, has raised €25 million in Series A funding led by Index Ventures with participation from existing investors Alven, GFC... |
| 18.11.2020 | Yubo & Alven: an interview with Yubo CEO Sacha Lazimi & François Meteyer | Ahead of Yubo’s announcement of its $47.5m Series C round, we sat down with Yubo‘s CEO Sacha Lazimi, and Alven Partner François Meteyer, to get their thoughts on Yubo, its exciting prospects for the future, and its journey since joining the... |
| 18.11.2020 | Yubo, the leading social space for Gen Z, completes $47.5m Series C | Latest funding round follows a year of exponential growth for Yubo with an increase of 400% of time spent in live stream, as Yubo has already attracted over 40 million young people worldwide.
Yubo, the leading platform for young people to ... |
| 02.11.2020 | The Debrief: Go to market in dev tools – Part 2: the pricing challenge | Following Part I of our Dev Tools discussion, we wanted to focus on several potential action points for developer tools companies at their early stages of marketing, and also address a recurring question in software and developer tools: “ho... |
| 22.10.2020 | The Debrief: Go to market in dev tools – Part 1 | At Alven, we continue being excited about the growth and innovation we’re seeing in the developer tools space. We’ve been backing the category for a number of years, and have been fortunate to support great teams such as Infinit (sold to Do... |
| 20.10.2020 | Beam raises €3m Seed round to launch a new way to collect ideas on the web | Eight years after selling Sparrow to Google, Dominique Leca is partnering with former Apple Senior Software Engineer Sébastien Métrot to launch Beam, which announces today the closing of a €3 million Seed funding round.
This round, led by ... |
| 08.10.2020 | The Debrief: the brand as a growth accelerator | Oftentimes, marketers trying to develop their company’s brand are confronted with challenges from their leadership, who see the brand as a costly intangible asset, with difficult-to-quantify impact, and would rather have the time & reso... |
| 05.10.2020 | The Debrief: From Successful Startup Alumnus to Founder (Part 3) | If you’ve been working for a successful startup for a while, chances are you were able to develop significant skills (hard and soft), be it through the exposure you got, the training you received, or the people you worked with.
While you m... |
| 30.09.2020 | (Podcast) Building and Investing in Social Entertainment Products For Gen Z | In this podcast, Sacha, François and Erik discuss notably:
Listen to the podcast here: https://www.spreaker.com/user/10197011/building-and-investing-in-social-product |
| 29.09.2020 | PandaScore raises $6M to drive esports betting with AI-powered data | PandaScore, which supplies esports bookmakers with AI-powered statistics and odds, announces today that it has raised €5M (~$6M) in funding. The round is led by V13 Invest (FDJ x Serena), with other investors in the round being existing inv... |
| 23.09.2020 | The Debrief: From Successful Startup Alumnus to Founder (Part 2) | So you now have performed this introspective work of figuring out whether you really want to be a company founder, and decided to take on this risk and learn new skills at a fast pace. You’re even ready to, as Justin.tv / Twitch founder put... |
| 21.09.2020 | Supermood Raises $5m Series B to develop the platform and expand its international outreach | Supermood has announced a new fund-raising campaign of €5 million, headed by impact investment funds Brighteye Ventures, Educapital, and Citizen Capital. It aims to pursue its mission throughout Europe and to turn the workplace into a venue... |
| 17.09.2020 | Bunch Closes $20 Million Series A Financing | New York – Sept. 17th, 2020 – Bunch, the party app for multiplayer games, has closed $20 million in Series A funding, led by General Catalyst, bringing together many top multiplayer game makers as investors in an unprecedented show of suppo... |
| 17.09.2020 | The Debrief: From Successful Startup Alumnus to Founder (Part 1) | Note: The following article is the first of a three-part series focusing on scale-up alumnis launching their own startups, and what aspects to ponder when considering making the jump from startup employee to startup founder.
You can find P... |
| 11.09.2020 | Joone raises €10m to expand its product range & raise the bar on transparency | Paris, September 9, 2020 – Founded in 2017, JOONE is a fast-growing startup which offers 100% clean and eco-conscious alternatives for infant-care and mother-care products ranging from diapers to derma-cosmetics.
Pioneer in transparency*, ... |
| 03.09.2020 | Dataiku Raises $100 Million To Extend Leadership In Enterprise AI Market | Dataiku, one of the world’s leading Enterprise AI and machine learning platforms, announced a $100 million Series D investment round led by Stripes, and Tiger Global Management joins existing investors CapitalG, Dawn Capital, ICONIQ, Batter... |
| 24.07.2020 | Planity announces €10m Series B to cement leadership on beauty salon bookings | Launched in 2017 by Antoine Puymirat and his associates Jérémy Queroy and Paul Vonderscher, Planity (www.planity.com) has, in only 3 years, become the leader in beauty salon online bookings, with 1 appointment made every second.
The expone... |
| 13.07.2020 | MadKudu Raises $5.5m Series A & Launches New Intelligence Offering | MadKudu, an AI-based predictive analytics and marketing operations solution, today announced new product functionality – MadKudu Insights, an intelligence layer that turns data into revenue through actionable reports and dashboards. Leading... |
| 09.07.2020 | The Debrief: Covid-19 and layoffs (webinar) | A number of countries have implemented policies to help startups and companies face the consequences of a potential COVID-provoked economic downturn. While these measures might have come to some as a welcome relief, others might not be as f... |
| 01.07.2020 | The Debrief: Remote Working best practices (webinar) | While some countries are slowly lifting their Covid-19-related restrictions, the pandemic has been the impetus for broader adoption of remote working in a lot of companies, be it as a temporary, or more definitive measure. This new normal h... |
| 29.05.2020 | The Debrief: the brand, a compass in times of crisis (webinar) | Crisis situations such as the Covid-19 pandemic crystallize two fundamental objectives for executives: protecting what’s there, and defining a clear objective to prepare for what’s next.
At the crossroads of these priorities lies a critica... |
| 25.05.2020 | Xwing Raises $10M Series A to continue development of Pilotless Planes | Xwing, a company pioneering autonomy for aviation, today announced it has raised $10 million in Series A funding led by R7 Partners, with participation from Alven, Thales and Eniac Ventures. The investment will be used to expand Xwing’s tea... |
| 06.05.2020 | Alven welcomes Victor Charpentier as Associate | Today, Alven announces the arrival of Victor Charpentier as an Associate at Alven.
Victor started his career as an entrepreneur and founder of B&BCare in the hospitality sector. He then joined Activa Capital, a Paris-based private equi... |
| 03.03.2020 | SoCloz acquired by Savoye | Savoye, editor, designer and integrator of comprehensive, standard and customized intralogistics solutions, is extending the scope of its Supply Chain Execution solutions to omnichannel retail.
In keeping with the development of its intral... |
| 11.02.2020 | Alven launches the first talent-sharing pool in France | Interview between Ludwig Ritter, Co-founder of Sompani, and Christelle Lecuyer-Weber, Head of Talent at Alven.
Ludwig: How would you explain your job at Alven?
Christelle: My job is to help the startups we’ve invested in accelerate their ... |
| 21.01.2020 | Qonto raises €104m Series C to make easy business banking a reality for European entrepreneurs and SMEs | Two and a half years after launching its product in France, Qonto, the neobank for SMEs and freelancers, announces it has successfully raised an additional €104m in a round including historical investors Alven and Valar, as well as two ne... |
| 16.01.2020 | Cornerstone Acquires Clustree to Build Leading AI-Powered Skills Platform for People Development | Cornerstone OnDemand, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSOD), a global leader in people development solutions, today announced it has acquired Clustree, a French technology company that developed an industry-leading, AI-powered skills engine and extensive skil... |
| 14.01.2020 | Thomas Cuvelier joins Alven as Partner | On the heels of an action-packed 2019 marked by 18 funding rounds, and the sales of Drivy (acquired by Getaround), MeilleursAgents (acquired by Axel Springer) and MailJet (acquired by Mailgun), Alven announces today the appointment of Thoma... |
| 10.01.2020 | Cardiologs Raises $15 Million in Series A Funding Led by Alven | Cardiologs, a global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) cardiology diagnostics, today announced that it has secured $15 million in Series A funding, bringing the total capital raised since Cardiologs’ inception to more than $25 million.... |
| 12.12.2019 | Yubo raises $12.3m with Iris Capital, Idinvest Partners, alongside historical investor Alven | Built by Sacha Lazimi, Jérémie Aouate, and Arthur Patora, Yubo currently has over 25 million users,w ith an already predominantly English-speaking user base (mainly in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia) and tens of thou... |
| 09.12.2019 | Ankorstore closes a €6m seed round co-led by Alven to help local shops reinvent themselves | Providing local businesses with the means to reinvent themselves
Ankorstore is a BtoB marketplace that facilitates exchange between brands and physical points of sale, created by 4 entrepreneurs specialising in retail and marketplaces: Pie... |
| 05.12.2019 | Dataiku, from seed with Alven to partnering with CapitalG and becoming a Unicorn | “Dataiku has a proven track record of solving real business problems for enterprise organizations with a unique ability to extract actionable insights for data scientists and business decision makers. We are thrilled to take this journey wi... |
