# AVP

> AVP is a VC fund in Paris backing Software and Health Care. See 148 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, France
- Total investments: 148
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 56%
- Fund size: $274M
- Last fund: Apr 2021
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/axa-sv/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/AXAVentures
- Website: https://www.axavp.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/axastrategicventures/timeline?ref=page_internal

AVP is a VC fund in Paris focused on Software and Health Care. AXA Venture Partners (AVP) is a venture capital fund investing in high-growth, technology-enabled companies. AVP has built a unique investment platform specialized in tech investments with $600 million of assets under management through three pillars of investment expertise: Early Stage Fund, Growth Stage Fund and Fund of Funds. To date, AVP hasinvested in 40 Early and Growth equity deals and 6 Fund investments. AVP team operates globally backed by offices in San Francisco, New York, London, Paris and Hong Kong. Beyond investments, AVP provides access to business development opportunities helping portfolio companies to scale globally and accelerate their growth.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $549k–$6.1M |
| Series A | $3M–$25M |
| Series B | $7.5M–$60M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 29 | 20% |
| Health Care | 17 | 11% |
| Information Technology | 13 | 9% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 11 | 7% |
| SaaS | 10 | 7% |

141 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 31 | 21% |
| Series B | 27 | 18% |
| Seed | 15 | 10% |
| Funding Round | 15 | 10% |
| Series C | 12 | 8% |

11 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 43 | 29% |
| France | 17 | 11% |
| United Kingdom | 8 | 5% |
| Israel | 3 | 2% |
| Germany | 3 | 2% |

11 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alex Scherbakovsky | General Partner | 16 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-scherbakovsky |
| François Robinet | Managing Director | 21 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fran%C3%A7ois-robinet |
| Imran Akram | General partner | 11 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/imran-akram |
| Manish Agarwal | General Partner | 19 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/manish-agarwal-bd0b |
| Marc Lewden | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marc-lewden |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Abstract Security | 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 | Isometric is a carbon removal registry and science platform. | $40M | Series A | Jun 22, 2026 |  |
| Orkes | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |
| Tive | Tive is a Boston-based startup that helps companies take the surprises out of their supply chains through true end-to-end visibility. It is the easiest way for companies to manage their supply chain – and get results. Unlock unparalleled insight and enhanced visibility.They help companies improve efficiency and meet regulatory requirements byproviding an end-to-end sensor solution to visualize, optimize, and monitor operations in real-time. | $20M | Series C | Jan 02, 2026 |  |
| deskbird | deskbird is the workplace management app that puts employees first. The platform provides a smooth and user-friendly experience, allowing users to easily check the office's occupancy and adjust their schedule accordingly. With just 2 clicks, you can book a desk on a mobile, desktop, Slack or MS Teams app. That's why employees love it!Over 5,000 offices are already using deskbird globally. Clients like AON, Unicef, Vitra, Heineken, and ThyssenKrupp trust deskbird to implement desk booking, coordinate employees returning to the office more often, optimize the office space, and save costs on lease and energy. | $23M | Series B | Sep 24, 2025 |  |

10 of 148 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [MassMutual Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/massmutual-ventures) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
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- [Intel Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/intel-capital) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Sierra Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sierra-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does AVP invest in?

AVP invests primarily in Software, Health Care and Information Technology startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 148 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is AVP's check size?

AVP typically joins rounds of $549k–$6.1M at Seed, $3M–$25M at Series A and $7.5M–$60M 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 AVP participates in.

### How do I contact AVP?

Public channels for AVP include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### 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.

### 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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