Alven

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Paris, France

Total investments

227

Average round size

16M

Portfolio companies

119

Rounds per year

9.46

Lead investments

52

Follow on index

0.47

Exits

30

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinTechInformation TechnologyMobileArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningSaaSEnterprise Software

Summary

In 2000 was created Alven Capital, which is appeared as VC. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Paris. The company was established in Europe in France.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Alven Capital, startups are often financed by Kima Ventures, eFounders, Point Nine Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Kima Ventures, Bpifrance, Point Nine Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Seventure Partners, Serena, Partech.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Meero, Algolia, Frichti Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are SaaS, Machine Learning. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - France. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager.

The overall number of key employees were 10.

The average startup value when the investment from Alven Capital is 100-500 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 14 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. This Alven Capital works on 14 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The important activity for fund was in 2017.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Blockchain/Crypto/Web3ProductivityAI/Big DataDeveloper ToolsCommunity/Social network Show 10 more
Stage focus
Series ASeed
Geo focus
AlbaniaAustriaBelgiumBosnia and HerzegovinaBulgaria Show 37 more
Check size
538K — 5M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
EUR 350000000
Fund raised date
2022-05-31

Analytics

Total investments
227
Lead investments
52
Exits
30
Rounds per year
9.46
Follow on index
0.47
Investments by industry
  • Software (74)
  • Internet (41)
  • E-Commerce (41)
  • SaaS (33)
  • Artificial Intelligence (32)
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Investments by region
  • France (158)
  • United States (48)
  • Netherlands (1)
  • Belgium (3)
  • Switzerland (3)
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Peak activity year
2017
Number of Unicorns
4
Number of Decacorns
5
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
10
Avg. valuation at time of investment
494M
Group Appearance index
0.82
Avg. company exit year
9
Avg. multiplicator
4.12
Strategy success index
0.90

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Neural Concept 03 Jun 2024 Software, Machine Learning, Computer, Industrial Automation Early Stage Venture 27M Switzerland, Vaud, Lausanne
Welcome to the Jungle 26 Jan 2023 E-Learning, Human Resources, Recruiting, Advertising, Digital Media Late Stage Venture 59M Ile-de-France, Paris, France
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