Marc Lewden

Marc Lewden is a Partner and the Chief Operating Officer of AVP (AXA Venture Partners), a global technology investment firm with over $2 billion in assets under management and offices in Paris, London, and New York. He joined the firm in 2017 and is based in Paris, where he oversees the firm's operations and finance function rather than acting primarily as a deal-sourcing partner.

Before AVP, Marc spent a substantial part of his career inside the AXA group, serving as Chief Financial Officer of several AXA business units across Europe and the United States, including AXA Life Invest, AXA Global Distributors, and AXA Technology. Earlier, he held the role of Vice President, Strategic Initiatives at AXA Equitable in the US, giving him experience spanning corporate finance, strategy, and operations on both sides of the Atlantic.

On the education side, Marc holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a Master's in Finance from Université Lyon II. This finance-and-operations background is consistent with his current mandate at AVP, where he runs the operational and financial infrastructure that supports the firm's investment activity across its Early Stage, Growth Stage, and Fund of Funds strategies.

• Marc's role is operational/financial leadership (COO) at an institutional VC firm; deal theses are set at the firm level rather than by him as an individual angel.
• Firm strategy (AVP): invests across the technology lifecycle from seed to growth equity through three pillars — an Early Stage Fund, a Growth Stage Fund, and a Fund of Funds.
• Sectors: enterprise software (including AI-enabled software), fintech, insurtech, digital health, and consumer technology.
• Check sizes: roughly $3M to $50M depending on stage and fund.
• Geography: transatlantic focus across Europe, the UK, the US, and Israel, supported by teams in Paris, London, New York (with people also in San Francisco and Hong Kong).
• The firm looks for tech-enabled businesses it can back through scaling, leveraging its network and (historically) its AXA ties in insurance/financial services.