AVP (AXA Venture Partners)

AVP, formerly known as AXA Venture Partners and now rebranded as Atlantic Vantage Point following a management buyout from AXA completed in 2025, is a Paris-headquartered independent global investment platform focused on high-growth technology companies across Europe and North America. The firm was originally founded in 2015 as AXA Strategic Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of AXA Group, before evolving into AXA Venture Partners and ultimately completing a full management buyout that gave the team ownership of the platform. The European Investment Fund joined as an anchor investor in AVP's Growth Fund following the independence. AVP manages approximately $2 billion in assets across three investment pillars: an early-stage fund, a growth-stage fund, and a fund-of-funds strategy, with offices in Paris, London, and New York. Investment sectors span enterprise software, fintech and insurtech, digital health, and consumer technology. The firm operates a dedicated expansion team that helps portfolio companies with strategic guidance, commercial partnerships, and market entry, particularly leveraging relationships with financial services and insurance incumbents across Europe and the US. Note: the original directory lists this firm's sector focus as cybersecurity only, but AVP's actual mandate is much broader, spanning enterprise software, fintech, digital health, and consumer technology, with cybersecurity as one component. Beyond its original investments in Alkira, Coalition, Orca Security, and Shift5, the broader portfolio includes SecurityScorecard, BlaBlaCar, Deepgram, Qdrant, and Odoo.