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AVP (AXA Venture Partners)
AVP (formerly AXA Venture Partners) is a global venture firm spun out from AXA in 2016, managing over $2B across four strategies (Venture, Early Growth, Growth, Fund of Funds) with teams in Paris,…
Investment thesis
AVP (formerly AXA Venture Partners) is a global venture firm spun out from AXA in 2016, managing over $2B across four strategies (Venture, Early Growth, Growth, Fund of Funds) with teams in Paris, New York and London. Its venture strategy targets high-growth technology companies from Series A through growth, with a stated conviction that quantum computing is transitioning from R&D to industrial phase.
AVP co-led Alice & Bob's €100M Series B in January 2025 alongside Bpifrance and Future French Champions, making it one of the most significant European institutional bets on fault-tolerant quantum. Managing Partner François Robinet champions the quantum thesis internally.
The firm brings AXA's global corporate footprint for commercial channel access — insurance, financial services, healthtech and enterprise.
Distinctive for being one of the few generalist European platforms with explicit quantum conviction at scale.
Anti-thesis
The patterns that trigger a fast no with this fund.
- Core thesis is enterprise software, fintech, and insurtech with AXA distribution leverage, pure quantum hardware is structurally off-thesis and historically absent from the portfolio
- Late-stage growth bias (Series B+ growth fund, plus an early fund) underwrites on revenue multiples and unit economics, which pre-revenue quantum cannot supply
- PQC fits only when packaged as a financial-services cryptography or compliance SaaS with AXA or banking design partners, algorithm-layer research bets are unlikely
- Spinout from AXA in 2024 (rebrand to AVP) signals a push toward third-party LP returns discipline, further tightening tolerance for science-risk timelines
- Sector teams are organized around software verticals, no public quantum partner or thesis lead, meaning deal sponsorship internally would be hard to secure
Notable quantum portfolio
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