AVP
VC Fund
Paris, France
AVP is an independent global investment platform that focuses on high-growth technology companies across Europe and North America. It engages with sectors including enterprise software, fintech, insurtech, digital health, and consumer technology, supporting businesses from early-stage ventures to more mature tech-enabled firms. AVP operates through a transatlantic approach, combining local expertise in Europe and the U.S. to provide strategic guidance, connections, and resources for portfolio growth. Its platform emphasizes multi-stage investments and hands-on expansion support, helping companies scale through operational advice, partnerships, and market entry strategies. AVP collaborates closely with founders to identify opportunities, address challenges, and foster long-term development in global technology markets.
- Total investments:
- 153
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 57%
- Fund size:
- $294M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries AVP invests in
Stages AVP invests in
Countries AVP invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Round size
- Seed
- $551k–$6.2M
- Series A
- $3M–$25M
- Series B
- $7.5M–$60M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 38 (25%)
- Artificial Intelligence 24 (16%)
- Information Technology 18 (12%)
- Health Care 17 (11%)
- Financial Services 13 (8%)
Stage
- Series A 38 (25%)
- Series B 32 (21%)
- Seed 16 (10%)
- Series C 16 (10%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 11 (7%)
Country
- United States 50 (33%)
- France 21 (14%)
- United Kingdom 10 (7%)
- Germany 4 (3%)
- Israel 3 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Alex Scherbakovsky
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 16 | Find email | |
François Robinet
Managing Director
|
Managing Director | Total investments: 22 | Find email | |
Imran Akram
General partner
|
General partner | Total investments: 11 | Find email | |
Manish Agarwal
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 20 | Find email | |
Marc Lewden
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 8 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parallel Systems designs an autonomous, zero-emissions freight transportation system. The company believes the future of freight transportation should be fast, inexpensive, and clean, while also reducing congestion on the highways. Parallel Systems was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California. | $100M / Series C / Oct 07, 2026 | ||
| WhiteLab Genomics develops digital tools that help gene and cell therapy companies develop cheaper drugs faster. | $26M / Series B / Oct 05, 2026 | ||
| Abstract Security is a company that offers data management solutions to enhance security and compliance analytics. It focuses on optimizing data usage while ensuring effective detection and compliance without burdening security teams. The services include managed data pipelines, real-time analytics, and a privacy-first data lake architecture. | $25M / Series A / Jul 22, 2026 | ||
| Isometric is a carbon removal registry and science platform. | $40M / Series A / Jun 22, 2026 | ||
| Orkes provides a cloud-based platform for orchestrating workflows across microservices, APIs, and distributed systems, enabling developers to manage complex application processes and integrations. Its platform is built on the open-source Conductor project and delivers a managed service that supports workflow execution, event-driven architectures,and long-running processes. The system includes capabilities such as workflow modeling, state management, monitoring, and access control, which help track executions and maintain operational reliability. It also supports integration with various programming languages, cloud environments, and external services, allowing teams to define workflows as code and coordinate business logic across systems. Additionally, the platform incorporates features for observability and governance, offering visibility into workflows and tools to manage performance, errors, and system behavior in production environments. | $60M / Series B / Apr 23, 2026 | ||
| Qdrant develops vector databases and search technology designed to support artificial intelligence applications that require similarity search, recommendation, and semantic retrieval capabilities. The company’s core offering is a vector-oriented database that stores high-dimensional numeric representations of data, enabling efficient search andretrieval operations based on similarity rather than exact matches. This allows applications such as semantic search, content recommendation, and clustering to operate on large data sets of text, images, and other unstructured content. The database supports real‑time indexing and querying of vectors generated by machine learning models, enabling developers to integrate AI‑driven search and recommendation features into applications. Its APIs allow software systems to submit vectors representing user queries or content items and receive the most similar vectors based on nearest-neighbor search algorithms. This capability is commonly used to surface semantically relevant search results or related content recommendations in applications involving natural language processing, image similarity, and personalization systems. | $50M / Series B / Mar 12, 2026 | ||
| Selector AI is a platform for operational intelligence of multi-cloud infrastructure and performance-sensitive managed services. By adopting an AI/ML-based data analytics approach, Selector AI provides actionable multi-dimensional insights to network, cloud, and application operators. Their customers can meet their service KPIs throughseamless collaboration on messaging platforms, search-driven querying with a conversational user experience, and automated data engineering pipelines. | $32M / Series B / Feb 18, 2026 | ||
| Tradespace provides a software platform that supports the management of intellectual property throughout its lifecycle. It offers tools for capturing invention disclosures, assessing novelty, organizing patent filings, tracking portfolio details, and identifying opportunities for licensing or commercialization using integrated analytics. Theplatform includes automated workflows and AI-supported features that help users streamline disclosure review, coordinate filings, and maintain portfolio records. Tradespace also connects IP data with insights that assist in aligning intellectual property assets with strategic business considerations. Its services aim to support organizations in handling complex intellectual property processes with data-driven support. | $15M / Series A / Jan 26, 2026 | ||
| Odoo is an open-source platform that provides integrated business applications for managing various company operations. It includes tools for tasks such as CRM, eCommerce, accounting, and inventory management. The applications are designed to work together, supporting workflows across different departments. | $69.6M / Secondary Market / Jan 16, 2026 | ||
| Defense Unicorns builds National Security capabilities using open-source continuous delivery solutions, leveraging their open-source tools for air gaps and secure environments. Its technology allows it to deploy to air-gapped environments – environments typically disconnected from the internet. Leveraging Defense Unicorns’ solutions, nationalsecurity systems can adopt modern technologies wherever the mission happens, whether in space, undersea, or elsewhere. Its secure software and AI solutions are deployable across cloud, on-prem, and tactical edge environmentsThe company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado. | $136M / Series B / Jan 13, 2026 | ||
| See all 153 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does AVP invest in?
AVP invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 153 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does AVP invest in?
AVP typically joins rounds of $551k–$6.2M at Seed, $3M–$25M at Series A and $7.5M–$60M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not AVP's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds AVP took part in.
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Who are the partners at AVP?
The team at AVP includes Alex Scherbakovsky (General Partner), François Robinet (Managing Director) and Imran Akram (General partner), among 8 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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