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Alven Capital close to closing their 120 million euro fourth fund
Alven Capital announced this week on their blog that they are “very close to reaching their hard cap of 120M€,” and thus closing their 4th fund, Alven Capital IV. The firm, which has made investments in iAdvize, Drivy, Mailjet, Textmaster, Qosmos, Commerce Guys & more, has been pretty quiet lately, despite a few good exits in […]
Client E-relation leader iAdvize raises €1M from Alven Capital
iAdvize announced yesterday that it has closed a round of funding of €1 Million from Alven Capital in order to accelerate its international development. Previously funded by Xavier Niel’s Kima Ventures & business angels to the tune of €100K, iAdvize was founded by Julien Hervouet and Jonathan Gueron in 2010. The company currently helps 800+ […]
IDInvest Parters, the most active VC in France
I love when entrepreneur tell me that "it is impossible to raise VC funding in France." Honestly, it has become one of my favorite phrases. I have come across numerous entrepreneurs - on both sides of the Atlantic - that have told me that VCs are risk-averse weirdos and that their capital is extremely limited and/or drying up. And while Chausson Finance did declare France's VC activity for the first half of 2011 as remarkably less than in 2010, this