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We're glad to announce that Deepomatic has entered exclusive negotiations to be acquired by IQGeo (a KKR-backed pioneer in geospatial network management software)!??? ?? Congratulations to Augustin Marty, Alo?s Brunel, and Vincent Delaitre and to the whole team that we've been happy to back and support for the past 9 years! A model of startup adaptation and resilience at successfully leveraging AI and workflows in an evolving industrial market. All the best for the future???

?? Deep tech founders — here are 5?? reasons you might wanna consider working with a generalist VC firm as you scale your company. At Alven ??, we've seen firsthand how generalist investors uniquely complement deep tech expertise. Here's why: ? Broader market insights: generalists provide cross-sector insights, helping founders uncover new applications and adjacent markets beyond traditional playbooks, and iterate towards company-native business models ? Expansive and cross-disciplinary networks: connections across industries accelerate commercial scaling, offering valuable relationships and expertise to bring deep tech products into mainstream usage ? Interdisciplinary team building: support in assembling teams with the essential commercial and strategic skills for deep tech success ? Experienced scaling help: generalist investors can have deep experience in scaling diverse business models, speeding up the path from innovation to market ? Flexible downstream funding and exit opportunities: generalist networks offer greater access to later-stage investors and strategic acquirers, ensuring broader funding options and attractive exits - crossing the path between traditional tech and deep tech ?? ?? We're lucky enough to be collaborating with many deep tech-focused angels and funds, would love to see that trend continue! Full article in the first comment ??

We're super excited to have our portfolio company OpusMajor come out of stealth and announce a $10m Seed round led by Griffin Gaming Partners!??? ?? We've known Jean-Nicolas Vernin and Pierre-Armand Nicq for many years thanks to our investment in Madbox and it's been an evidence to back them at inception 18 months ago given both their genuine creative vision and stellar execution capacities. We're thrilled to welcome in this round amazing gaming?lovers and investors at Griffin Gaming Partners (Pierre Planche ?? & team) and continue to work with the OpusMajor team and Maxime DEMEURE to shape the future of entertainment!

Omnidoc is raising a €6m Series A led by Alven!??? ?? Omnidoc leads the way in medical tele-expertise in France with more than a million acts on a yearly basis and already 80k professional users. This round will enable the company to scale internationally and become the reference for all forms of medical collaboration between practitioners. ? ? Congrats Baptiste, Pierre and team for this milestone and glad to join historical investors Kurma Partners and Newfund. cc Benjamin Belot, Anne-Sophie Saint-Martin, Fran?ois Meteyer, Maria Tahri

Demain matin, je reprends ma casquette de conseiller conjugal ?? Et comme souvent dans un couple, tout est question de communication... Comment améliorer la communication financière entre investisseurs et CFO ? Ce jeudi, avec Maurine Riou, nous réunissons autour Thibault Chaufour et Yves de Rocquigny + de 30 CFO et Investisseurs. Nous échangerons autour d'un sujet qui touche au c?ur des relations de financement. Comment rendre la communication financière plus fluide et transparente entre investisseurs et CFO de scale-ups ? Lors de cette session, nous explorerons : ?? Les meilleures pratiques pour des échanges financiers sans friction, ?? Les attentes des investisseurs en matière de reporting et de transparence, ?? Des conseils concrets pour batir une relation de confiance entre acteurs financiers et opérationnels. Le sujet vous intéresse ? Laissez un commentaire pour recevoir un compte rendu détaillé de la discussion !

?? Join our investment team for an exciting 6 months VC Analyst internship starting in January 2025 ! Here's what you'll be doing: ???? Manage the deal flow to spot amazing investment opportunities ?? Sourcing of investment opportunities among Europe and the US ?? Discuss with startups founding teams about their project and their market ?? Research and analyse all kinds of tech sectors ???? Support the investors during the deal-making ?? Write the weekly newsletter on the startup ecosystem If you are tech-driven with previous experience in startup, finance or IT and are looking to dig into the start-up ecosystem by analyzing and meeting the next generation of startups, ?? Read the full job description and apply click link in 1st comment ?? You'll be working with Rodolphe Menegaux, Fran?ois Meteyer, Thomas Cuvelier, Bartosz Jakubowski, Victor Charpentier, Maria Tahri, Margaux Gregoir, Marius Busen, Pauline Ancona

Kestra is raising a $8M round, led by Alven ! ?? Kestra is an open source data orchestration platform that just excels at managing mission-critical workflows at scale, unifying and simplifying how companies orchestrate their most critical processes, and now trusted by thousands of businesses, from startups to Fortune 100s ???? ?? If you want to support the company ??Star them on GitHub: https://lnkd.in/eTXFeNVf ??Huge congrats to Emmanuel Darras, Ludovic DEHON and team for this $8M round with Alven and historical investors ISAI and Axeleo Capital (AXC) ?? We are thrilled to co-invest with amazing tech & data founders, Olivier Pomel (Datadog), Tristan Handy (dbt Labs), Michel Tricot (Airbyte), Clem Delangue ?? (Hugging Face), Nicolas Dessaigne (Algolia), Zach Smith (Packet), Bertrand Diard (Talend), Fred PLAIS (Platform.sh) among others ! cc Jean-Patrice Anciaux Juliette Mopin Eric Burdier Victor Charpentier

Thrilled to count Alven as one of the X-AI sponsors ! The X-IA association brings together students and alumni of the école Polytechnique who are working in or passionate about the broad field of Artificial Intelligence with the aims to highlight their achievements and share their experiences with the community. At Alven we’ve been investing in AI since several decades now, and had a front-row seat to the positive influence of the school network in creating major successes in the industry. Supporting the outstanding french engineering school network was the natural next step, especially when we do it within the family ;) Dataiku Thanks Sophie Monnier for having us! ILLUIN Technology , Dataiku , Hugging Face , Alpha Intelligence Capital, Egis

We're super excited to lead Supercede | The Reinsurance Platform's Series A round and support this amazing team in building a market leading platform at the centre of the reinsurance industry. Ben Rose and Jerad Leigh bring the right combination of innovation and domain expertise, the reason why they have such an edge in this industry. We're happy to be on this journey alongside great partners like Mundi Ventures, AFG Partners, Outward VC and Seedcamp.

Congratulations Neural Concept for the $27m Series B raised! Neural Concept leads the way in AI applied to simulation engineering and product design, and shapes the future of engineering intelligence. The Series B funding news follows the recent unveiling of a close technical collaboration with NVIDIA, allowing Neural Concept to optimize performance of physics-driven deep learning models on NVIDIA GPUs and CUDA software and to jointly push the frontiers of the field. Congrats to Pierre Baqué Fran?ois Fleuret Pascal Fua Théophile Allard, Thomas von Tschammer, Jonathan Donier, Philippe Cuendet and team. Welcome Deborah Pittet and Jonas Jeandupeux from Forestay Capital and Ryan Abdullah from The D. E. Shaw Group, joining Philipp Thurn und Taxis from CNB Capital,?Gregor Haidl from HTGF | High-Tech Gründerfonds and Jean-Marc Bally from AsterCapital. #alvenfamily cc Charles Letourneur Alven