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Alven VC

Alven VC

Alven is an independent venture investment firm with a successful track record of 5 successive funds backing more than 130 startups over 20 years.

  • Use: Go2Market;
  • Date closing: -
  • Amount: -
  • Industry focus: All
  • Total budget: 350M €
  • Entity type: Venture Capital
  • Vertical focus: All
  • Website: https://alven.co/
  • Status:
    Open
  • Funding type: Equity investment;
  • Geographic focus:
  • Public/Private: Private
  • Stage focus: Seed; Series A;
  • Applicant target: Startup;

Overview

Although Alven’s typical investments vary from €50K to €5M in seed and series A rounds, Alven’s sixth fund is worth €350M, so the fund will write cheques from €100,000 to €15 million and has plenty of reserves for follow on investments.

Portfolio: Akeneo, Beam, Indy, Meero.

 

Application process

 

The pitch desk should include the answers to the following questions:

1.Founding team: Highlight relevant entrepreneurial achievements

2.The product: What is it? What does it do?

3.Examples and concrete use cases: Describe clearly typical users and use cases

4.Market: Qualify your target and total addressable markets

5.Competition: List the various types of competitors, ideally by size, geography and type

6.Commercial Strategy: Which steps will enable your startup to conquer this market?

7.Milestones:Main KPIs, benefits and earnings for up to the past 3 and next 3 years

8.Business model: Compare with known startup models, marketplace, e-commerce, SaaS…

9.Business plan:One slide to highlight the financial plan

10.Financing needs:How much are you raising

 

Applicants willing to get in touch with Alven can do it by following this link and filling out the form at the end of the page.

 

Last update: June 6, 2022

Last updated on 2022-06-06 12:45

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