Alven is an independent early-stage venture capital firm with over $500m under management and a successful track record of backing more than 130 startups over 20 years. Our mission at Alven consists in supporting the long-term success of European category-defining startups with global reach, starting at Series A or Seed stage. Alven’s sectors of interest include notably B2C/B2B marketplaces, productivity and dev tools, vertical AI platforms, consumer social & entertainment, B2C financial services and wellness brands. Examples of past or current investments PRODUCTIVITY SOFTWARE: Akeneo - Bime Analytics - Dataiku - Georges.tech - People Doc - Qonto - Webhelp DEV TOOLS: Algolia - Entropysoft - Platform.sh - Sqreen - Stripe - Wit.ai VERTICAL AI PLATFORMS: Cardiologs - Clustree - Scortex - Tinyclues - XWing B2B MARKETPLACES: Ankorstore - Companeo - Jobteaser - Meero SOCIAL & ENTERTAINMENT: Happn - Madbox - Tonsser - Yubo B2C FINANCIAL SERVICES: MeilleursAgents - Pretto - The Guarantors - Virgil B2C MARKETPLACES: Captain Train - Drivy - Heetch - Liligo - Marco Vasco - OpenClassrooms - SeLoger - Smallable WELLNESS BRANDS: Birchbox - Feed. - Joone - Sézane - Typology