Fontinalis Partners

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Detroit, United States

Total investments

103

Average round size

25M

Portfolio companies

65

Rounds per year

6.87

Lead investments

12

Follow on index

0.36

Exits

16

Stages of investment
SeedPrivate EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
AutomotiveLogisticsTransportationSoftwareMobileArtificial IntelligenceSaaSAppsRoboticsAutonomous Vehicles

Summary

In 2009 was created Fontinalis Partners, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Detroit.

The fund was created by Chris Cheever, Chris Thomas, Mark Schulz, Ralph Booth, William Clay Ford, Jr.. We also calculated 4 valuable employees in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Fontinalis Partners, startups are often financed by Techstars, Techstars Mobility Accelerator, Right Side Capital Management. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Right Side Capital Management, Verizon Ventures, Ted Serbinski. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Expansion Venture Capital, Samsung NEXT, Plug and Play.

The typical startup value when the investment from Fontinalis Partners is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The high activity for fund was in 2016. Comparing to the other companies, this Fontinalis Partners performs on 11 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 6 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Lyft, Ike, Humatics. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Mobile, Robotics. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
ManufacturingClimate tech
Stage focus
SeedSeries APre-SeedSeries B
Geo focus
Generalist
Check size
250K — 5M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 270000000
Fund raised date
2021-08-20

Analytics

Total investments
103
Lead investments
12
Exits
16
Rounds per year
6.87
Follow on index
0.36
Investments by industry
  • Software (31)
  • Mobile (25)
  • Transportation (22)
  • Automotive (18)
  • Robotics (17)
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Investments by region
  • United States (88)
  • Switzerland (4)
  • Canada (3)
  • United Kingdom (1)
Peak activity year
2016
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
2
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
267M
Group Appearance index
0.93
Avg. company exit year
9
Avg. multiplicator
1.56
Strategy success index
0.40

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