The fresh cash injection takes the start-up’s total capital raised up to €86 million to date and follows its €35m Series B of 2021, which involved investors Alven, Singular and Kerala Ventures, and its €10 million Series A of 2019. Founded in 2016, Indy began life as an automated accounting platform and claims to provide 70,000 freelancers with accounting and financing tools for invoicing, bank synchronisation, expense reports and payslips, among other features. The company now plans to leverage its newfound capital to expand its offering to create a “simple all-in-one application”, which by t ..read more

Founded in 2017, Planity is the market-leading online booking SaaS platform for the beauty industry, supporting 25% of hair and beauty salons across France. Alven had led the seed round in 2016 and then re-invested in the A and B rounds in 2018 and 2020. This C funding round was led by InfraVia Capital Partners with participation from other existing shareholders Crédit Mutuel Innovation, Revaia, and Bpifrance Digital Venture, bringing the total funding since inception to $105 million. This financing will accelerate Planity’s European expansion, the recruitment of 300 new employe ..read more

Since raising €11 million in an a16z-led Series A round in June of 2022, Parisian SME-focused insurance and cybersecurity software provider Stoïk has today announced the raise of an additional €10 million. The fresh investment will support the company’s expansion across Europe as it enters its first market field, beginning with Germany. The €10 million arrives via lead investors Munich Re Ventures, and Opera Tech Ventures and existing investors Andreessen Horowitz and Alven participating. Founded in 2021, Stoïk is a response to some staggering 2020 statistics that saw ..read more

Skarlett is the brainchild of 3 seasoned entrepreneurs: Townley Le Guénédal (Innohealth), Aurélien Gouttefarde (Homeloop), and Benjamin Gaignault (Ornikar), who are on a mission to shatter age-old stereotypes about being 60 in 2023. Skarlett is a brand that finally responds to this generation’s main aspiration: to enjoy life! This first €4m round of financing from renowned investors enables them to kick off the first stage of their project: restoring purchasing power to people aged 60 and over. The startup is aiming for sustained and rapid growth, initially driven by its web platform, which en ..read more

We’re truly delighted to welcome Alice Azzarelli as Alven’s new Associate in our London office.  Alice completed her studies at Science Po and University of California Berkeley, before embarking on a career in venture. She joins us from MMC Ventures and Fuel Ventures, with experience backing businesses from pre-seed to Series A In between her degrees, she interned at Arianespace in their corporate VC program. She has also worked on the curatorial team at a modern art museum and contributed research to a book on Art History. Half Italian, half French, and a Londoner born and raised – she ..read more

Bartosz has been a member of the Alven team since 2019, initially joining as Investment Manager and quickly rising through the ranks to Principal in 2020. His contributions to the firm, as well as his expertise in the fintech, climate tech, and crypto infrastructure sectors, made him the natural choice for the role of Partner. Bartosz has been working closely with early-stage entrepreneurs, building a strong portfolio of successful companies including Kaiko, the leading crypto market data provider, Mindee, the document processing API, and Carbonfact, the leading carbon management platform for ..read more

The company has experienced substantial growth since raising its [$7M] Series A in January last year, as people are turning more and more to authentic do-it-yourself, crafting activities CEO Roemie Hillenaar reflects, “It’s been quite a ride growing from 30 people to our amazing team of 160 now. We have so much to build for our community that there is no time to waste. With this new round, we have the means to move faster and continue to bring inspiration and resources for the 100M+ creators out there.” Creative Fabrica recently launched CF Spark, a suite of tools that uses generative AI to he ..read more

The Series F investment brings Dataiku’s total primary funding since inception to approximately $600 million. This latest investment reinforces Dataiku’s leadership position and will help accelerate its platform capabilities and prepare the company for its next phase of strong, sustainable growth. “Enterprises overwhelmingly understand that now is the time to embrace AI —or risk falling behind. We are on the cusp of a massive market transformation with AI at the heart of it—and we are ready to meet the moment.” – Florian Douetteau, co-founder and CEO of Dataiku. With this announcement, Datai ..read more

Paris-based Kiln is part of a group of service providers that has garnered investor interest by enabling institutions to tap into staking, a process of temporarily freezing crypto for rewards in return for securing the blockchain. Kiln believes that the staking market is becoming institutionalized and must move beyond running validators to meet the growing customer need to spread risk. This means creating validator-agnostic APIs and services to enable multi-provider staking. This in turn enables digital assets to be staked wherever they are held, for wallets, custodians, and exchanges. As the ..read more

This fundraising was backed by existing investors – Hi Inov-Dentressangle, Swisscom Ventures, and Alven -and two new industry leaders investors – the corporate investment fund EnBW New Ventures of the German utility company EnBW, and a leader in infrastructure Orbia via its corporate venture capital Orbia Ventures – will allow Deepomatic to accelerate its development in multiple sectors relying on mobile agents to deliver their services: renewable energy, electric mobility, construction, insurance, etc. The start-up wishes to apply the recipes of its success to better support all these players ..read more