Atlantic Vantage Point
Status
ACTIVE
Global HQ
Paris, France
Countries of investment
- United States
- Canada
- Singapore
- Israel
- United Kingdom
- France
- Germany
Investment stages
- Series A
- Series B
- Series C
- Growth
Industries
- Enterprise software
- Fintech
- Insurtech
- Digital health
- Cybersecurity
- Consumer tech
- AI & data infrastructure
About
Atlantic Vantage Point (AVP), formerly AXA Venture Partners, is a Paris, London, and New York-based venture capital platform focused on enterprise software, fintech, insurtech, digital health, cybersecurity, and consumer technology. Their focus spans France, United Kingdom, United States, Germany, and Belgium. The firm supports founders from early venture through late growth stages.
Atlantic Vantage Point (AVP), formerly AXA Venture Partners, is a Paris, London, and New York-based venture capital platform focused on enterprise software, fintech, insurtech, digital health, cybersecurity, and consumer technology. Their focus spans France, United Kingdom, United States, Germany, and Belgium. The firm supports founders from early venture through late growth stages.
Investment Thesis
AVP is a multi-stage, multi-strategy technology investment platform (venture, early growth, growth, and fund-of-funds) that evolved from AXA's corporate venture arm into a fully independent transatlantic investor following its 2024 management buyout. The firm differentiates itself through residual deep ties to AXA's global insurance and asset-management network — still useful for insurtech- and fintech-adjacent portfolio companies — combined with EIF backing for its €1.5B Growth Fund I, though its current mandate is now a broad enterprise/fintech/digital-health/consumer-tech thesis rather than an insurance-first one.
Manager's Experience
Established in 2016 out of AXA and since operating as an independent manager, chaired by François Robinet with Manish Agarwal as CEO. Offices in Paris, London, New York, San Francisco and Hong Kong. Runs early-stage, growth and fund-of-funds strategies with roughly $2B+ AUM; AXA remains the cornerstone LP alongside third-party institutions. (AUM and leadership detail unverified.)
Team
François Robinet-Managing Partner
Imran Akram-General Partner
Manish Agarwal-General Partner
Elizabeth de Saint-Aignan-General Partner
Alex Scherbakovsky-General Partner
Warda Shaheen-General Partner
Sébastien Loubry-Partner Business Development
Marc Lewden-Partner
Dominic Maier-Partner & Head of Fund Investing
Pedro Barros-Partner Fundraising & IR
Benoit Fosseprez-Partner
Ethan Volk-Principal
Alexander Pires-Director
Stéphanie Vervoitte-Fundraising Director
George Stansfield-Chairman of the Board
Portfolio
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Odoo
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