Alven

Venture Capital · Founded 2000 · Paris, France

#372 Investor Ranking 2026 Top 2% of investors worldwide

Invests in early stage tech European founders globally

Website ↗LinkedIn ↗X / Twitter ↗

137 Portfolio companies+32% in 5 years

5 Unicorns

1 Decacorns

249 Investments

Jun 2026 Last investment

01 · Knowledge graph

News Attention raises $30M Series B led by RTP Global Jun 23, 2026

02 · Biggest holdings

Alven’s biggest current holdings.

The most valuable companies Alven still holds, ordered by Dealroom’s latest valuation. Companies that have been acquired or gone public are in Exits instead. Dealroom has no parsed shareholder register for Alven, so the size of each stake isn’t shown.

#CompanyValuation

1 StripeCenticorn · Fintech · USA $159B
2 QontoUnicorn · Fintech · France $4.8B
3 DataikuUnicorn · Enterprise Software · USA $3.7B
4 AlgoliaUnicorn · Marketing · USA $2.2B
5 MorphoUnicorn · Fintech · France $2.0B
6 GorgiasMarketing · USA $710M

Unicorns and thoroughbreds Alven has backed and still holds, at Dealroom’s latest valuation. See the underlying shareholder registers on Dealroom →

03 · Portfolio analysis

Where Alven’s portfolio is concentrated.

Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 137 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.

By countryCount

France97
USA29
Germany4
Belgium2
Switzerland2
Denmark1
Finland1
Hong Kong1
Italy1
Netherlands1
Sweden1
UK1

By sectorCount

Enterprise Software51
Fintech21
Marketing20
Media12
Health8
Fashion7
Gaming7
Transportation7
Food6
Real Estate6
Telecom6
Jobs Recruitment5

By stage enteredCount

Series A64
Seed59
Series B+13

By growth stageCount

Breakout Stage63
Early Growth58
Late Growth19
Mature1

04 · Portfolio market map

Inside Alven’s portfolio.

The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 137 tracked.

Enterprise Software · Unicorn

Ankorstore

Fashion

$300M

Algolia

Marketing · Unicorn

$2.3B

Meero

Media

$150M

Akeneo

Marketing

$540M

Upsun

Hosting

$560M

OpenClassRooms

Education

$320M

TheGuarantors

Fintech

$200M

Neural Concept

Engineering and Manufacturing Equipment

$400M

AnyCommerce

Fintech

$317M

Genesis AI

Robotics

$420M

Planity

Wellness Beauty

$200M

JobTeaser

Jobs Recruitment

$238M

Stoik

Security

$138M

Heetch

Travel

$150M

Cryptio

Fintech

$180M

Morpho

Fintech · Unicorn

$2.0B

Qover

Fintech

$120M

XWING

Transportation

$400M

Yubo

Media

$176M

Pretto

Fintech

$165M

Creative Fabrica

Media

$195M

Frichti

Food

$32M

Drivy

Transportation

$294M

Verley

Food

$120M

iAdvize

Marketing

$141M

Attention

Enterprise Software

$120M

PeopleDoc

Jobs Recruitment

$300M

My traffic

Real Estate

$132M

Archy

Health

$80M

Qosmos

Telecom

$57M

Concord

Legal

$100M

Kiln

Fintech

$126M

Kestra

Enterprise Software

$100M

E-

E-Blink

Telecom

$16M

Feed.

Food

$49M

Freeda Media

Media

$64M

Bunch

Gaming

$80M

Generare Bioscience

Health

$88M

MadKudu

Marketing

$72M

tinyclues

Marketing

$72M

Mindee.co

Fintech

$28M

CardioLogs

Health

$60M

Virgil

Fintech

$66M

Happn

Dating

$56M

Supercede

Fintech

$60M

Deepomatic

Enterprise Software

$44M

Skynopy

Telecom

$66M

Powder

Gaming

$56M

mobile tag

Marketing

$29M

Swarmia

Enterprise Software

$44M

Marco Vasco

Travel

$66M

Mailjet

Marketing

$44M

Lengow

Enterprise Software

$11M

Carbonfact

Enterprise Software

$60M

05 · Portfolio founders

Where Alven’s portfolio founders come from.

166 founders across the 100 highest-funded portfolio companies — by current location, university attended, and the companies they worked at before founding. Sourced from the founder records the API links to each portfolio company.

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