# Alven

> Alven is a VC fund in Paris backing Software and Internet. See 221 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, France
- Total investments: 221
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 39%
- Fund size: $384M
- Last fund: Jun 2022
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/alven-capital-partners
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/alvencap
- Website: https://www.alven.co/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alvencap/

Alven is a VC fund in Paris focused on Software and Internet. Alven Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm with over $500 million under management. Alven backs primarily ambitious French and French-related entrepreneurs in the digital technology space. Alven’s sectors of interest include notably AI, data management platforms, Saas, security solutions, as well as disruptive consumer models with aparticular focus on marketplaces and web brands.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $900k–$10M |
| Series A | $2.7M–$20M |
| Series B | $7.3M–$53M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 37 | 17% |
| Internet | 17 | 8% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 17 | 8% |
| SaaS | 15 | 7% |
| Machine Learning | 12 | 5% |

183 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 62 | 28% |
| Seed | 51 | 23% |
| Series B | 40 | 18% |
| Series C | 20 | 9% |
| Funding Round | 15 | 7% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| France | 71 | 32% |
| United States | 27 | 12% |
| Germany | 3 | 1% |
| Italy | 1 | 0% |
| Belgium | 1 | 0% |

12 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Guillaume Aubin | Co-Founder and Managing Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/guillaume-aubin |
| Maria Tahri | VC investor, Associate | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maria-tahri |
| Rodolphe Menegaux | Partner | 28 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rodolphe-menegaux |
| Charles Letourneur | Managing Partner and Co-Founder | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/charles-letourneur |
| François Meteyer | Partner | 31 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fran%C3%A7ois-meteyer |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Attention | Attention provides AI-powered customer relationship and communication solutions that help businesses manage customer interactions across messaging, voice, and workflow platforms. The company develops tools that support sales, customer service, and operations teams by organizing conversations, automating processes, and improving engagement throughartificial intelligence. Attention enables businesses to capture customer information, streamline communication workflows, and connect data from different channels into unified systems. Its platform focuses on helping teams handle customer requests, follow up on opportunities, and manage interactions more efficiently through automated assistance and intelligent features. | $30M | Series B | Jun 23, 2026 |  |
| Generare | Generare is a biotech startup that discovers next-generation medicines and high-value molecules hiding in soil bacteria. | $23.1M | Series A | Apr 02, 2026 |  |
| Kestra Technologies | Kestra is an infinitely scalable orchestration and scheduling platform, creating, running, scheduling, and monitoring millions of complex pipelines. | $25M | Series A | Mar 31, 2026 |  |
| Cryptio | Cryptio is a financial data analysis tool for cryptocurrencies. It helps crypto CFOs & CPAs easily automate accounting, bookkeeping and tax reporting for their digital assets. The tool consolidates all cryptocurrency transaction data from multiple wallet & exchange sources, and translates it into data usable for accounting and financialanalysis. We take away the headache of regulations, audits, taxes and accounting for crypto firms so that they can focus on what they do best. | $45M | Series B | Mar 04, 2026 |  |
| Bon Vivant | A French biotechnology startup founded by Hélène Briand, and Stéphane Mac Millan that leverages precision fermentation technology to develop plant-based milk using yeast to create non-dairy alternatives that are similar in texture and taste to its counterparts. | $29.4M | Series A | Feb 24, 2026 |  |
| Symbiotic Security | Symbiotic Security is a Cybersecurity Solution | $10M | Seed | Jan 22, 2026 |  |
| Stoïk | Stoïk is a cyber insurance company that integrates cybersecurity software with insurance protection, helping businesses manage their cyber risks effectively. Stoïk empowers brokers by offering clients comprehensive insurance policies and protection against cyber risks. Its mission is to equip brokers with the tools to help their clients insure andsafeguard against cyber threats.Stoïk's unique product simplifies the underwriting process using automated tests, replacing traditional questionnaires. It also provides continuous risk prevention through integrated cybersecurity tools and ensures swift, effective incident response with an in-house team of crisis management experts. | $23.3M | Series C | Jan 20, 2026 |  |
| Neural Concept | Neural Concept is an innovative AI platform focused on transforming engineering product design through advanced 3D deep learning algorithms. By integrating AI directly into design and simulation processes, Neural Concept enables engineering teams to shorten development timelines from months to days, enhance product performance in terms ofefficiency, safety, and sustainability, and facilitate the scaling of AI adoption without the need for expensive and lengthy integration. | $100M | Series C | Dec 18, 2025 |  |
| altrove AI | Altrove builds better alternatives to materials that are critical, but insecure. Using the latest advances in AI models and lab automation, altrove designs and builds alternatives to materials we need to reach Net Zero, but for which supply can't meet demand. | $10M | Seed | Oct 31, 2025 |  |
| Diffusely | Founded in 2016, Meero aims to revolutionize the world of photography by allowing photographers to dedicate themselves to their passion. From providing revenues and market research to invoicing, post-production, and delivery, Meero takes care of all the laborious, time-consuming tasks which plague the industry. Above all, the company aims toprovide them with tools for file compatibility, CRM, marketing, and other daily needs. In addition to this, they'll have access to a series of educational masterclasses, inspiring documentaries, meetups with photographers in 35 different countries, a magazine in 2 different languages, and even a foundation supporting photography worldwide.Meero also solves a major problem in the world of photography: photo editing. Normally 60 minutes of actual shooting will take up to 4 hours of extra post-production work. The cutting-edge content enrichment technologies the company is currently developing can reduce this time to a few seconds, solving the problems of long delivery times, inconsistent photo rendering and unfair prices.Meero further gives artists the chance to work with major brands and take advantage of a whole range of solutions that simplify their work and make the production of beautiful images far easier.These innovations allow brands, and soon individual consumers, to access made-to-measure photo and video solutions around the world. Meero manages the photoshoot process from beginning to end, guaranteeing unbeatable prices, delivery times of less than 24 hours and professional photo quality.Today Meero is:- The world's leading on-demand photography platform- A suite of tools dedicated to photographers' activities; masterclasses, a magazine in four different languages, inspiring documentaries, a community of artists, and a foundation in support of photography- The leader in image-processing artificial intelligence- 60,000 photographers around the world- 800 team members of 49 different nationalities- 1 Photoshoot delivered every 25 seconds- 6 offices: Paris, New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Bangalore, Singapore | $12.7M | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 09, 2025 |  |

10 of 221 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Alven invest in?

Alven invests primarily in Software, Internet and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 221 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Alven's check size?

Alven typically joins rounds of $900k–$10M at Seed, $2.7M–$20M at Series A and $7.3M–$53M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Alven participates in.

### How do I contact Alven?

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### Who are the partners at Alven?

The team at Alven includes Guillaume Aubin (Co-Founder and Managing Partner), Maria Tahri (VC investor, Associate) and Rodolphe Menegaux (Partner), among 10 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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