Alven portfolio
Alven has 11 portfolio companies on record at Recent Funding, with 3 investments in the last 12 months.
About this page
It is a venture capital firm based in Paris, FR, founded in 2000. It led 4 of the 16 rounds it joined. Its most recent investment on record is Rivercell's $25M Seed round in October 2026, alongside Bpifrance Digital Venture, HCVC and HV Capital. By category, its portfolio leans toward Health and bio (2) and Developer tools and cloud (2). It has co-invested with Valar Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners and CRV, most often Valar Ventures (4 rounds).
About Alven
What Alven invests in
- Health and bio · 2 · 18%
- Developer tools and cloud · 2 · 18%
- Education · 2 · 18%
- Sales and marketing · 2 · 18%
- Fintech · 2 · 18%
- Commerce and retail · 2 · 18%
- Foundation models and research · 1 · 9%
- Manufacturing and industrial · 1 · 9%
Alven recent investments
| Company | Round | Date | Alongside |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seed · $25M | Bpifrance Digital Venture, HCVC, HV Capital (lead) | ||
| Series B+ · $50M | TCV, JMI Equity (lead), CRV +2 | ||
| Series B+ · $100M | HTGF, Goldman Sachs Alternatives (lead), Aster +2 | ||
| Series A · $12M | DIG Ventures (lead), Lifeline Ventures, Alex Plugaru +3 | ||
| Series A · $15M | Thomas Hale, The Twenty Minute VC, CRV +3 | ||
| Series B+ · $27M | HTGF, Aster, D. E. Shaw +2 | ||
| Series B+ · $30M | Anthemis Exponential Ventures, BlackRock, Zurich Global Ventures | ||
| Seed · $10M | Somrat Niyogi, Adapt Ventures, Thuan Pham +5 |
How Alven invests
Alven portfolio companies
RRivercell$25MSeed · Oct 2026
AArchy$50MSeries B+ · Sep 2026
NNeural Concept$100MSeries B+ · Dec 2025
SSwarmia$12MSeries A · Jun 2025
QQover$30MSeries B+ · Jun 2023
AAnkorstore$280MSeries B+ · Jan 2022
QQonto$115MSeries B+ · Jan 2020
GGenesis AIbacker
AAttentionbacker
MMarveribacker
CCreative Fabricabacker
| Company | Round with Alven | Total raised | Latest raise |
|---|---|---|---|
Foundation models and research |
Seed · $25M | $25M | Oct 7, 2026 Seed |
Health and bio |
Series B+ · $50M | $95M | Sep 11, 2026 Series B+ |
Education |
Series B+ · $100M | $136.1M | Dec 18, 2025 Series B+ |
AI coding and devtools |
Series A · $12M | $13M | Jun 18, 2025 Series A |
Insurance |
Series B+ · $30M | $42M | Apr 1, 2026 Series B+ |
Sales and marketing |
Series B+ · $280M | $317M | Dec 14, 2023 Series B+ |
Fintech |
Series B+ · $115M | $701M | Jan 11, 2022 Series B+ |
Robotics and hardware |
backer · source | $105M | Jul 1, 2025 Seed |
AI agents |
backer · source | $30M | Jun 23, 2026 Series B+ |
Legal and compliance |
backer | undisclosed | May 8, 2025 Seed |
Commerce and retail |
backer | $68M | Jan 10, 2023 round |
Most frequent co-investors
VValar Ventures4 shared rounds · last Jan 21, 2020
BBessemer Venture Partners3 shared rounds · last Sep 11, 2026
CCRV3 shared rounds · last Sep 11, 2026
HHTGF3 shared rounds · last Dec 18, 2025
AAster3 shared rounds · last Dec 18, 2025
GGlobal Founders Capital3 shared rounds · last Jan 1, 2022
AAglaé Ventures3 shared rounds · last Jan 1, 2022
EEntrée Capital2 shared rounds · last Sep 11, 2026
DD. E. Shaw2 shared rounds · last Dec 18, 2025
FForestay Capital2 shared rounds · last Dec 18, 2025
CCNB Capital2 shared rounds · last Jun 3, 2024
IIndex Ventures2 shared rounds · last Jan 1, 2022
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Investors whose portfolios on Recent Funding center on the same category (Health and bio).
How this is counted
Firm profile: Fundraising Fox Open Dataset v2026-11, CC BY 4.0. Track-record counts are theirs, not Recent Funding's.
Share is of the 16 rounds on Recent Funding that name Alven. Rounds with no announced date are left out of the year split, and "round" is a round whose stage is not on file.
Portfolio companies are the companies on Recent Funding with a round that lists Alven, which is a subset of its real portfolio. API: /api/v1/investors/alven (get a free API key). More: the most active VC firms and new venture capital funds.
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