# Alven

> Alven's investments in AI tools on Anchor Terminal, Gorgias, Kestra Technologies and Mindee, with each listing's grade and the founders behind it.

- Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/alven/
- Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/alven/index.md (~650 tokens)
- Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/alven/index.min.md (~530 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts)
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/alven/index.json (this page as data, same URL with Accept: application/json)
- Site index for agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt (full text: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms-full.txt)
- API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json
- MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (the whole catalogue as tools, no key)
- Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data)
- Updated: 2026-10-28

Venture firm.

Website: https://www.alven.co

## Companies on Anchor Terminal

- **Gorgias**, Series A, November 2019, Series B, December 2020
  - [Gorgias API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gorgias.md), graded D, 51/100
  - Source: https://www.gorgias.com/blog/our-journey-from-product-market-fit-to-series-a
- **Kestra Technologies**, Seed, September 2024, Series A, April 2026
  - [Kestra](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/kestra.md), graded B, 63.7/100
  - Source: https://www.goodwinlaw.com/en/news-and-events/news/2024/09/announcements-technology-alven-invests-series-a-financing-kestra
- **Mindee**, Series A, October 2021
  - [Mindee API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mindee.md), graded C, 61.5/100
  - Source: https://www.mindee.com/blog/mindee-comes-out-stealth-mode-raising-14m-its-developer-tool-document-parsing-eliminates-manual-data-entry-software-applications-and-automates-document-processing

## Where they invest

- Customer support & helpdesk, 1
- Workflow automation, 1
- Document parsing & extraction, 1

## Founders they backed

- [Romain Lapeyre](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/romain-lapeyre/), Gorgias
- [Alex Plugaru](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/alex-plugaru/), Gorgias
- [Jonathan Grandperrin](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jonathan-grandperrin/), Mindee

## Questions

### Which AI tools has Alven invested in?

Anchor Terminal lists Gorgias, Kestra Technologies and Mindee backed by Alven.

### How are Alven's companies graded?

On Anchor Terminal's benchmark, Gorgias API + MCP (D, 51), Kestra (B, 63.7) and Mindee API (C, 61.5).

Investors are named from the companies' own announcements, the investors' own pages, Y Combinator's company pages, public filings and news reports of a round, each with its source. An investor isn't a sign of quality, and nobody can pay to be listed or to change a grade. To correct something or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.

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