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Just two years after its inception, Planity has raised an additional €6 million from its historic investor, Alven, Fonds Ambition Numérique (Bpifrance), and Alto Invest.
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PeopleDoc sold to Ultimate Software (NASDAQ) for $300M. Alven selling 100% of its shares together with Accel, Eurazeo and Kernel.
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Led by Alven and Idinvest, the startup closed a $45 million second round just eight months after Series A.
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Alven is leading a $4m round in Shone, including participation from Liquid 2, Paul Graham, David Marcus and D. Scott Phoenix.
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French foodtech startup Feed. raised a new round of funding led by Alven joined by existing investor Otium Brands
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Platform.sh announces a $28 million Serie C led by Partech Ventures and joined by Idinvest Partners, Benhamou Global Ventures Hi Inov.
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OpenClassrooms has raised $60 million Series B funding, led by General Atlantic, with participation from existing investors Alven, Bpifrance and Citizen Capital.
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Alven is leading a $10m round in Freeda with U-Start.
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Flashbreak completes its first funding round with Alven and Kima Ventures.
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The Technicis Group – number one player in Europe for professional translation – accelerates its pursuit of market share with the acquisition of TextMaster, a company specialising in professional cloud-based translation.
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Tinyclues is raising a $18 Million round led by EQT Ventures with participation from its existing investors Alven, Elaia Partners and ISAI.
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Supermood, a SaaS solution to measure and improve employee engagement, announces a Series A investment of €2.5 million, led by Alven.
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