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Where history meets what's next. In just under two weeks, AVP Day comes to the Sorbonne. On the 14th October, we're bringing together founders and investors building the next generation of technology companies for an afternoon and evening of big ideas and hard-won lessons. To set the scene, our headline session steps back to look at the bigger picture. Philippe Aghion, the 2025 Nobel Laureate in Economics, will be in conversation with Henri de Castries, President of Institut Montaigne and Chairman Europe at General Atlantic. 🎤 Keep an eye out for more speakers to be announced over the coming days.

🥁 AVP Day is back on the 14th October, as we bring together founders, investors and partners for an afternoon of content and networking. This year we'll be in the historic amphitheatre at the Sorbonne and are thrilled to be joined by Philippe Aghion, the 2025 Nobel Laureate in Economics, delivering the keynote. Founders from our portfolio including Deepgram, Finom and Isometric will share their own stories of building and scaling, with more speakers to be announced. Spaces are limited. If you'd like to join, drop an email to events@avpcap.com.

AVP is at FDDAY in Paris this week! Our General Partner, Benoit Fosseprez will be on stage at 3:25pm, joining a panel on "Who will build Europe's defence?" alongside Sandra Budimir (Alta Ares), Michael Vetter (Federal Ministry of Defence, Germany) and Benoit Wintrebert (Inria), moderated by Laura Kayali (POLITICO). If you're at FDDAY, come find the team. François Robinet, Sebastien Loubry, Augustin Collot.

Two great days on stage for the AVP team at IPEM Paris 🎙️ Benoit Fosseprez tackling how private capital can help close Europe's defence investment gap, alongside Martin Tornberg, Gorka G., Damian Perl and Serge Weinberg. Warda Shaheen moderating a sharp discussion on where the AI opportunity goes next for venture and growth, with Romain Stokes, Elodie Dupuy, Christian Figge, Carman Chan and Dr. Terhi (TJ) Vapola. Thanks to IPEM and everyone who joined!

Two of the AVP team take to the stage at IPEM Paris this week! 🎙️ How private capital fills the European defence gap 📆 Wednesday 9 September, 2:35pm, Summit Room 1 Our own Benoit Fosseprez, joins Martin Tornberg (Control Risks), Gorka G. (Bpifrance), Damian Perl (Damazein Family Office) and Serge Weinberg (Weinberg Capital Partners) to discuss how private capital is stepping up to close Europe's defence investment gap. 🎙️ Venture and growth: the AI opportunity in early focus 📆 Thursday 10 September, 10:50am, AI Summit, Summit Room 4 Our own Warda Shaheen moderates a panel with Romain Stokes (Quadrille Capital), Elodie Dupuyv (Full In), Christian Figge (Armira Growth), Carman Chan (Click Ventures) and Dr. Terhi (TJ) Vapola (Greencode Ventures), on where the AI opportunity goes next as VC and growth pipelines fill up. 📍 Come along, or find us at Booth R110, Level 1, Hall Paris.

It's just under a week to go until IPEM Paris. 📍 From 8-10 September, the AVP team will be at Booth R110, Level 1, Hall Paris, for all three days. Come find us, or send a message to set up a meeting. You can also catch us on stage: 🎙️ How private capital fills the European defence gap on Wednesday at 2:35pm 🎙️ Venture and growth: the AI opportunity in early focus on Thursday at 11am On the ground we'll have François Robinet, Benoit Fosseprez, Warda Shaheen, Sebastien Loubry, Stéphanie Vervoitte, Alexander J. Pires and Pedro Rychter. See you in Paris!

We announced our investment in LinqAlpha back in July. Now, we're breaking down why. Most AI tools in finance help professionals retrieve information faster. LinqAlpha is going after a bigger opportunity: building the infrastructure that lets investors discover differentiated insight in markets that reward speed, context, and proprietary judgment. LinqAlpha has built the agent infrastructure that lets institutional investors run AI reliably and securely inside their own research and investment frameworks, with the audit logs, guardrails, and determinism that regulated finance demands. That reliability is why more than 70 financial institutions across the US, Europe, and Asia already rely on it. We're so excited to have partnered with Co-Founders Jacob Chanyeol Choi and Hojun Choi and the entire LinqAlpha team! Read more on why we invested below 👇 https://lnkd.in/eMAuGxxa Manish Agarwal, Gregory Krisberg

A lot has happened at AVP in the first half of 2026! 📢 We made new investments across voice AI, vector search, agentic workflows, carbon removal and more, on both sides of the Atlantic. New companies include Deepgram, Qdrant, Selector, Orkes, LinqAlpha, Isometric, Tradespace, Abstract and Defense Unicorns. And we doubled down on Alice & Bob and Odoo. 🎉 We marked ten years of AVP at Beaux-Arts de Paris! 🤝 Partnered with Earlybird Venture Capital to launch E2D, a €500M European dual-use and defence fund. 📰 Published the second edition of our Transatlantic Founder Index and whitepapers on AI infrastructure, observability and the Odoo exceptionalism. 👋 Convened and represented AVP on both sides of the Atlantic, from VivaTech and Les Rencontres Économiques, to our own Morning Briefings with Gilles Moec (AXA) and Théau Peronnin (Alice & Bob), an investor dinner in San Francisco and drinks in NYC. 📆 Coming up: AVP Day on the 14th October in Paris, featuring Philippe Aghion as keynote speaker, and catch our team at IPEM, France DigitaleDay and Slush. Swipe through for the full picture →

Thrilled to share that AVP has co-led a $25 million round in Abstract, the pioneer of composable security operations. The round brings Abstract's total funding to nearly $50 million, following a year in which the company grew ARR 380%, reached 264% net revenue retention, and tripled its customer base. Abstract's streaming-first platform gives security teams more control over their data, AI, and costs, moving away from rigid, all-in-one systems towards something more flexible. "Security teams are putting AI at the center of how they operate, and AI is only as good as the data underneath it. The teams that come out ahead will be the ones that own their data, route it on their terms, and detect in real time rather than after the fact. Abstract is building the platform to get them there," said our General Partner, Manish Agarwal. Huge congratulations to Colby DeRodeff and the entire Abstract team. Excited to be on the journey alongside Cheyenne Ventures, Crosslink Capital and Rally Ventures! Ethan Volk

Big news for E2D 🚀 We launched E2D, our €500m dual-use and defence technology growth fund together with Earlybird Venture Capital, back in June, and today we're pleased to share two milestones. Airbus Defence and Space has joined as anchor investor, and E2D has made its first investment. European defence is at a pivotal moment. Building a resilient ecosystem of deep-tech suppliers on the continent means backing companies that can move from breakthrough technology to real operational impact, fast. Airbus Defence and Space's commitment as anchor LP is a strong signal that Europe's industrial leaders are ready to back the growth-stage companies closing the continent's capability gaps. E2D was established to back the next generation of European technology champions across space, air, land, maritime and subsurface domains. So we're thrilled to announce E2D's first investment in Alta Ares, a French-headquartered company developing AI-powered hardware and agnostic software for ISR and counter-UAS missions. More to come on this soon 👀 Read more here: https://lnkd.in/eGsfrj2R